May 19 — U.D.O. will tentatively release its latest album this summer.
Touchdown is scheduled for release Aug. 25 through Atomic Fire Records. The record will be the band’s 18th and will come less than two years after the release of the band’s then latest album, Game Over. The band is set to debut the new album’s lead single, ‘Forever Free’ June 23 and audiences can pre-save the single now here.
The record’s track listing is noted below:
Touchdown Track Listing:
1. Isolation Man
2. The Flood
3. The Double Dealer’s Club
4. Fight For The Right
5. Forever Free
6. Punchline
7. Sad Man’s Show
8. The Betrayer
9. Heroes Of Freedom
10. Better Start To Run
11. The Battle Understood
12. Living Hell
13. Touchdown
In other news, U.D.O. launched a new tour in support of the forthcoming album and front man (and band namesake) Udo Dirkschneider’s latest covers collection, My Way Sunday in Vienna, Austria. The tour is scheduled to run through Oct. 29 in Salzburg, Austria. A stint at the 2024 Rock in Rautheim festival in Braunschweig, Germany has also been announced.
The band’s tour schedule is noted below. Tickets are available here.
U.D.O. / DIRKSCHNEIDER Live:
5/21/2023 Wildstyle & Tattoo @ Stadthalle – Vienna, AT
6/08/2023 Sweden Rock Festival – Sölvesborg, SE
6/10/2023 Lisää Löylyä Festival – Laihia, FI
6/16/2023 Metal am Kiez – Augsburg, DE *
6/18/2023 Graspop Metal Meeting – Dessel, BE *
7/21/2023 Open Air Pförring – Pförring, DE
7/29/2023 Rock Of Ages – Rottenburg-Seebronn, DE
8/12/2023 Leyendas del Rock – Villena, ES *
8/16/2023 Summer Breeze Open Air – Dinkelsbühl, DE
8/17/2023 Rock Castle Open Air – Moravský Krumlov, CZ
8/20/2023 Rock The Lakes – Vallamand (VD), CH
8/25/2023 Baltic Open Air – Haddeby, DE
9/16/2023 Beast Of Rocks @ Stadthalle – Tuttlingen, DE
10/07/2023 Keep It True Rising III @ Posthalle – Würzburg, DE *
10/22/2023 Wildstyle & Tattoo @ Tabakfabrik – Linz, AT
10/29/2023 Wildstyle & Tattoo @ Messezentrum – Salzburg, AT
5/10-11/2024 Rock in Rautheim – Braunschweig, DE
*as DIRKSCHNEIDER
More information on Touchdown and U.D.O.’s new tour dates is available along with all of U.D.O.’s latest news at:
Website: https://www.udo-online.de
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/udoonline
