Arctos will release A Path Apart on 6 November through Northern Silence Productions.
It is their second album and the first since Beyond the Grasp of Mortal Hands in 2019, which is a long gap for a band that started in Edmonton in 2014 and put out the EP A Spire Silent in 2017. A single in 2019 and a split in 2021 are all that came between.
Melodic black metal about nature, misanthropy and being on your own, which in Alberta is less a pose than a description.