Suidakra will release Dawnbringer on 29 January through Massacre Records. It is their sixteenth album.
Sixteen is a number very few bands reach and almost nobody reaches at this rate. Arkadius Antonik started the band in Dusseldorf in 1994 and has written every record since, and the gaps between them have rarely been longer than two years.
What they play has not moved much either, and does not need to: melodic death metal with Celtic melodies folded into it, bagpipes and whistles where another band would put a keyboard, and a run of albums built around Irish and Scottish mythology rather than around Norse.
Darkanakrad was the last one, in 2024, and Marcel Schoenen came back to the clean vocals around that time, which is the kind of return that matters more in this band than a new label would.
Nothing else has been said yet. No cover, no tracklist, no first song.