Long-running German metallers GRAVE DIGGER have set a January 13, 2017 release date for their new album via Napalm Records.

The band will support fellow Germans BLIND GUARDIAN on a North American tour this fall.

GRAVE DIGGER‘s last CD was “Exhumation – The Early Years“, a 35th-anniversary album containing re-recorded versions of the band’s “absolute classics with a dynamic and powerful sound of 2015,” according to a press release

GRAVE DIGGER‘s last collection of all-new material, “Return Of The Reaper“, was released in July 2014 via Napalm Records.

The CD was recorded at Principal Studios (KREATOR, IN EXTREMO, GRAVE DIGGER) in Senden, Germany.

(via Blabbermouth)