{"id":1793490,"date":"2026-02-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1793490"},"modified":"2026-02-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T21:00:00","slug":"arcturus-completes-their-first-new-record-since-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1793490","title":{"rendered":"ARCTURUS Completes Their First New Record Since 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/cdn-p.smehost.net\/sites\/7f9737f2506941499994d771a29ad47a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/arcuturus-2026.png&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"zox-post-body left zoxrel zox100\">\n<div id=\"932\"><\/div>\n<p>After nearly a decade of silence on the studio front, Norwegian avant-garde metal pioneers <strong>Arcturus<\/strong> have officially completed their first new album since 2015&#8217;s <em>Arcturian<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to social media, the band shared: &#8220;Great news, yesterday we delivered the master tapes for the new album to @prophecypro. It&#8217;s been a long journey to make this unique product of art. Soon we can share it to all of you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The record will arrive via Prophecy Productions, marking the band&#8217;s first full-length release in over ten years and their first major statement since reactivating in the 2010s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arcturus<\/strong> \u2013 long regarded as one of Norway&#8217;s most forward-thinking extreme metal exports \u00ba currently features drummer <strong>Hellhammer<\/strong> (<strong>Mayhem<\/strong>), keyboardist and founding member <strong>Sverd<\/strong> (<strong>The Kovenant<\/strong>, ex-<strong>Ulver<\/strong>), bassist <strong>Skoll<\/strong> (<strong>Ved Buens Ende<\/strong>, ex-<strong>Ulver<\/strong>), guitarist <strong>Knut Magne Valle<\/strong> (ex-<strong>Ulver<\/strong>), and vocalist <strong>ICS Vortex<\/strong> (<strong>Borknagar<\/strong>, ex-<strong>Dimmu Borgir<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>While details about the upcoming release remain under wraps, the band&#8217;s promise of a &#8220;unique product of art&#8221; suggests <strong>Arcturus<\/strong> are once again aiming beyond genre confines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zox-post-body left zoxrel zox100\"><strong>Want More Metal? Subscribe To Our Daily Newsletter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Enter your information below to get a daily update with all of our headlines and receive The Orchard Metal newsletter.<\/p>\n<div id=\"main-newsletter-form\">\n<fieldset>\n<p><button id=\"mc-embedded-subscribe\" class=\"submit\" name=\"subscribe\" type=\"submit\">Subscribe<\/button><\/p>\n<\/fieldset>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/metalinjection.net\/upcoming-releases\/in-the-studio\/arcturus-completes-their-first-new-record-since-2015&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/cdn-p.smehost.net\/sites\/7f9737f2506941499994d771a29ad47a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/arcuturus-2026.png&#8221;] After nearly a decade of silence on the studio front, Norwegian avant-garde metal pioneers Arcturus have officially completed their first new album since 2015&#8217;s Arcturian. Taking to social media, the band shared: &#8220;Great news, yesterday we delivered the master tapes for the new album to @prophecypro. It&#8217;s been a long journey to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,55],"class_list":["post-1793490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-metalinjection-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1793490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1793490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1793490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1793490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}