ENSIFERUM new album: Artwork and release date

Today, Metal blade records revealed the artwork for "One Man Army", the upcoming ENSIFERUM album:

The new album will be released this February 24th, but I guess you'll be many to pre-order the record. :)

Sami Hinkka said:

Recording process was long, hard, rewarding and full of incredible moments. Instruments were actually played and left as they were instead of creating tracks from hundreds of different takes, moving them to the grid and modifying things. Of course computers were used but overall we made everything as analog as possible. Listeners can experience a better sound and natural groove, something that we think most metal albums lack these days. Overall, the album sounds much more like a band playing live rather than 'midi-metal. 

On the new album, we took many things musically to the next level so we decided also to try something new graphics-wise. "Gyula Havancsák (Annihilator, Tyr, Elvenking, Stratovarius etc designer).who did phenomenal job! For the first time it was really nice to be more involved with designing the cover and all details. Our humble gratitude to Gyula for all the patience and really amazing results. We couldn't be more satisfied!"

"One Man Army" was produced by Anssi Kippo
(Children Of Bodom, Impaled Nazarene, Entwine etc.)
at Astia-Studios in Lappeenranta, Finland.