Arckanum release Beswærilsin tomorrow through Darkness Shall Rise Productions, eight years after the last one.
Eleven tracks, opening with Mz Fianda Raþi and closing on Twæþursaspa, and the titles are the point rather than an affectation. Shamaatae has written in Old Swedish since 1992 and has never treated it as decoration: the language is the subject, and reading the tracklist out loud is already most of the way into the record.
Thirty four years, one man, and a body of work that stayed stubbornly outside every fashion black metal went through in that time. The announcement made clear nothing had been modernised in the gap.
The label put the opening track out ahead of release, and it is eight minutes long, which tells you the album is not interested in being sampled. CD tomorrow, and the rest of the formats follow the way they do on a label this size.