Two new songs from legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan will be featured in the second season of Cinemax’s Emmy-nominated action drama series ‘Strike Back’, which begins August 17. Both previously unreleased songs appear on Dylan’s upcoming album “Tempest,” to be released September 11, marking his 50th anniversary as a recording artist and his 35th studio release.

“It’s an honor for Cinemax to showcase Bob Dylan’s exciting new music in his 50th anniversary year,” says Kary Antholis, president, Cinemax Programming and HBO Miniseries.

“Early Roman Kings” will make its world premiere in a music video promo featuring scenes from the new season, and airs on Cinemax and HBO starting today. It will also be available at cinemax.com.

“Scarlet Town” will make its world premiere over the end credits following the back-to-back debuts of the first two episodes on Friday, August 17 (10:00-11:30 p.m. ET/PT). In addition, the song will play after the subsequent separate plays of both episodes, which will also be available from Max On Demand and Max GO.

Bob Dylan recently received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor. His other honors include a special Pulitzer Prize, 11 Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe Award and an Oscar.

Starring Philip Winchester (“Crusoe”) and Sullivan Stapleton (‘Animal Kingdom’), ‘Strike Back’ follows a stealth counterterrorism unit as it spans the globe to stop potential threats. Season two features guest stars Rhona Mitra (‘Underworld: Rise of the Lycans’) and Charles Dance (HBO’s “Game of Thrones”); the supporting cast includes Rhashan Stone (“Episodes”) and Michelle Lukes (‘Alexander’).

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New York, U.S.A. – Columbia Records have announced that Bob Dylan’s new studio album, Tempest, will be released on September 11, 2012. Featuring ten new and original Bob Dylan songs, the release of Tempest coincides with the 50th Anniversary of the artist’s eponymous debut album, which was released by Columbia in 1962.

The new album, produced by Jack Frost, is the 35th studio set from Bob Dylan, and follows 2009′s worldwide best-seller, Together Through Life.

Bob Dylan’s four previous studio albums have been universally hailed as among the best of his storied career, achieving new levels of commercial success and critical acclaim for the artist. The Platinum-selling Time Out Of Mind from 1997 earned multiple Grammy Awards, including Album Of The Year, while “Love and Theft” continued Dylan’s Platinum streak and earned several Grammy nominations and a statue for Best Contemporary Folk album.

Modern Times, released in 2006, became one of the artist’s most popular albums, selling more than 2.5 million copies worldwide and earning Dylan two more Grammys. Together Through Life became the artist’s first album to debut at #1 in both the U.S. and the UK, as well as in five other countries, on its way to surpassing sales of one million copies.

Those four releases fell within a 12-year creative span that also included the recording of an Oscar- and Golden Globe-winning composition, “Things Have Changed,” from the film Wonder Boys, in 2001; a worldwide best-selling memoir, Chronicles Vol. 1, which spent 19 weeks on the

New York Times Best Seller List, in 2004, and a Martin Scorsese-directed documentary, No Direction Home, in 2005. Bob Dylan also released his first collection of holiday standards, Christmas In The Heart, in 2009, with all of the artist’s royalties from that album being donated to hunger charities around the world.

This year, Bob Dylan was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor. He was awarded a special Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for “his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.” He was also the recipient of the French Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres in 1990, Sweden’s Polar Music Award in 2000 and several Doctorates including the University of St. Andrews and Princeton University as well as numerous other honors.

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