Ars Nova will release La Esencia in March 2027. It is their fourth album.
They work slowly. The self titled debut came in 2009, Sombra y luz nine years later in 2018, and Abrazando las sombras in 2023, which makes this the shortest gap they have ever left between records.
What they play is progressive power metal sung entirely in Spanish, which narrows the audience and sharpens the identity at the same time. The band started in Badalona in 2008, out of an earlier group called Mazo, and are based in Barcelona now.
The line up has been stable for a long while: Jabi Suarez on drums and Dani Alonso on guitar since the beginning, Damia Ferrandiz on bass since 2010 and Alfonso Sanchez singing since 2011. They have never had a label and have put every record out themselves.
They have played the Spanish circuit for most of those eighteen years without ever quite breaking out of it, which is the usual fate of a band who sing in a language the European festival market does not book for. Four albums deep, that has not changed their mind about it.
No tracklist and no exact date yet.