Evocation have signed to Massacre Records, and the first thing out of the deal is an EP called The Immortal Remains, due early next year.
That is a fast turn. The band only announced their return recently, with four founding members back in the room, and a reactivation that reaches a signed contract this quickly usually means the music was already written.
Lawrence Mackrory mixed and mastered it, and his credits include Meshuggah and Bloodbath, which tells you what kind of weight the band are after. Misanthropic Art are doing the cover.
An EP rather than an album is the sensible first move for a band that stopped and started again. It lets everyone hear whether the thing still works before anybody commits to a full record, and Massacre have handled enough of these to know it.
Evocation were one of the Swedish death metal bands who stopped early, came back in the late 2000s and made good records that arrived after the wave had passed. A third life is a lot to ask of anybody, and the first EP will say whether it is coming.