Depeche Mode announce 'Tour of the Universe 2009' + new album snippets

Depeche Mode have announced the European leg of their "Tour of the Universe 2009". The band are currently in New York working on a new album, due April next year. Depeche Mode's follow up to "Playing The Angel" will be the 12th album for the UK outfit. The tour will kick off in Israel on May 10th, 2009. Note that the last date of the "Playing The Angel" tour (August 3rd 2006) was to take place at Tel Aviv's Hayarkon Park, but the band were forced to cancel due to the impending war.

This will be Depeche Mode's first ever stadium tour, taking place in 28 cities across 22 countries before finishing at Porto's Superbock Super Rock Festival on July 11th. Depeche Mode are expected to play to over 1.3 million fans on this European leg of the "Tour of the Universe 2009". Time to get your Depeche Mode concert tickets ! Full tour details here (that is if their servers are up and running again).

But the biggest news is for sure the airing of new work. Below is a video holding 2 snippets with new material... Let us know what you think of them.



And here is the conference...