Hyperion release Elysia tomorrow, 6 November, through Willowtip Records, ten years after the only album they had made before it.
Ten songs, and the titles are Greek and Latin almost throughout: Iliou Persis, which is the sack of Troy, then Fides Novem, Paraphrosynia, Epoch's Eventide. A band working this register usually gets it wrong by half, and the measure of the record will be whether the writing carries the vocabulary.
Iliou Persis came out ahead of it, fourth in the running order, after an overture and two longer pieces.
Willowtip have spent twenty five years as the label that takes the technical end of extreme metal seriously enough to put it on vinyl, and a ten year gap is the sort of thing they tend to wait out rather than drop. The first album came in 2016 and went almost unnoticed outside Sweden; the second arrives on a roster that will be read.