Defenders Of The Faith, le forum Metal

It has been almost 10 years since the last studio album release (Night Visit) from Norwegian melodic black metal horde Ancient. Now the band is pleased to announce the plans for their new upcoming effort, tentatively to be released sometime between June and September, 2014.

The band comments: "The band will start recording new album, the 7th album of Ancient, in the middle of February, in Como (northern Italy). It will be ready for mastering in the end of march, which means that the album will be ready for the release sometime between June and September, 2014."

With 12 years since the release of Night Visit, the Norwegian extreme metallers Ancient are proud to announce the release of Back To The Land Of The Dead, due out February 2016 through Alpha Omega Management, which the band recently signed a global contract to.

Frontman Zel comments: "Finally, the album is ready!! The new album of Ancient, Back To The Land Of The Dead, was mastered today by Mika Jussila at Finnvox Studios in Finland. So, the album is 100% ready now. We will launch news about release date, label, teaser, new video, tour dates etc etc. in about 2 weeks from now."

About the artwork, Zel continues: "The cover shows a hooded figure standing in a passage. He has been away a long time, and is now returning from his journey. The place is crowded with people that are now some kind of "spiritual zombies", he has come back to the place he was born, to "wake them up", and he thinks of this place as the "land of the (spiritual) dead". This is actually what we are doing, in a way."