Serious Black have released Little Bird Fly with a video, from Keeper Of The Light, which arrives on 29 January.
The record goes out through Perception, a division of Reigning Phoenix Music, rather than through the label itself. The song is built on piano rather than on the double bass drum the band usually opens with, which is an odd choice for a first look at a power metal album and probably a deliberate one.
The band has been a moving target since it started: the line-up has turned over repeatedly and the records have gone from straight power metal towards something with more weight in the melodies. What has not changed is the pace, which is close to an album every two years.
No tracklist has been given yet, and no dates behind the record either. A video first and the rest later is the usual order at this end of melodic metal, where the single has to carry the announcement on its own for a few weeks.