Hmmm. With Nuclear Blast Europe listed as the label for the digital downloads at those kind of sites, it is a bit hard to imagine that there would be enough revenue for another label to want to grab the CD only release rights. I am just getting more and more confused about this album's situation. BTW, September 30th is listed as the release date at the digital download sites, so possibly that is what the Threshold site is referring to (not to a CD release at all).
Ken, hopefully you will be able to import some copies of this album shortly after the European release date if that appears to be our only option.