Folk metallers Falconer are coming out with a new album this year. This album will be sung entirely in Swedish. Here is a new song from the new album. The song is called ‘Svarta Änkan’ translated to English as ‘Black Widow’. The album will be called Armod which means poverty. This song sounds pretty good aside from the overly polished sound. *Sigh*

Here are some more details on the new record from their site:

The title of the new album will be “ARMOD” and will be completely sung in swedish except for the bonus tracks that will simply be english versions of the best (according to us) new songs.

This time we have concentrated on the traditional folk side of our music including more traditional folk songs (the majority of the material is still our own), more fiddles and flutes. Be calm, the horrid sound of accordions will firmly be left behind!!

This is a way to finally devoting an entire album to the influences and getting that out of our system so to speak and to do the thing some have asked for during 10 years. This is not the new direction of us but just the sound of THIS album.

We are prepared for nagging about lack of speed and the full use of the swedish language and of course the cynical opinions that we lack inspiration and thus use more traditional folk songs.

Some people have been asking for an album sung in Swedish? Who? Swedes?? :-) More info at Falconer’s Glade.