DEVILDRIVER To Release Digital EP Of Previously Unreleased Material

March 20, 2008

Santa Barbara, California-based metallers DEVILDRIVER will release a digital EP, "Head On To Heartache", on April 21 to coincide with the band's UK tour dates.

The five-track EP features four tracks previously unreleased in the UK plus the title track, which is taken from the group's current studio album, "The Last Kind Words".

"Head On To Heartache" digital EP track listing:

01. Damning The Heavens
02. Unlucky 13
03. Guilty As Sin
04. Digging Up The Corpses
05. Head On To Heartache

DEVILDRIVER will team up with OPETH, ARCH ENEMY and 3 INCHES OF BLOOD for Metal Hammer's Defenders Of The Faith tour. The dates are as follows:

April 22 - Wrexham, UK @ Central Station (DEVILDRIVER solo, warm-up show)
April 23 - Birmingham, UK @ Academy
April 24 - Glasgow, UK @ Barrowlands,
April 25 - Manchester, UK @ Academy,
April 26 - London, UK @ Academy

A video interview with DEVILDRIVER frontman Dez Fafara conducted by Rick Florino of ARTISTdirect.com can be viewed at this location.

DEVILDRIVER recently hit the road in the U.S. as part of the "Bound By The Road" tour, also featuring NAPALM DEATH, 36 CRAZYFISTS and INVITRO. The trek runs through April 19.

DEVILDRIVER's third album, "The Last Kind Words", sold a little more than 14,000 copies during its first week of release to debut at No. 48 on The Billboard 200 chart. This figure represented around a 40 percent increase over the opening-week number of 2005's "The Fury of Our Maker's Hand", which premiered at No. 177 with sales of 10,400.

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