Sangreal will release The Fisher King on 22 January 2027 through Underground Symphony, seven years after the only other record they have made.
Seven years of silence, says the announcement, and the Grail never stopped calling, which tells you what kind of band this is before a note arrives. They play epic heavy metal in the older European sense: long songs, Arthurian material, keyboards used as orchestra rather than as texture.
The band formed in 2019 and the self titled debut came out the same year. What is unusual is where they live. Gabriel Grilli sings, Gianluca Carlini and Francesco Russo play guitars and Alessandro Battini is on keyboards, with Paris Lambrou on bass and Matti Auerkallio on drums, and the six of them are spread between Italy, Finland and Cyprus. Metal Archives files the band as international for exactly that reason.
No tracklist, no single and no cover yet. The date is all there is, and for a band that has been quiet since 2019 the date is the news.