Scheitan breaks his 24-year musical hiatus with the announcement of his new album “Songs For The Gothic People”
The Swedish gothic rock band Scheitan has spoken out after more than two decades of silence with the release of their long-awaited album Songs For The Gothic People, the band’s first studio album since Nemesis (Century Media Records) was published in 1999. Scheitan‘s long-awaited return has been produced through the Greek label The Circle Music and is composed of eight new songs of which we had already heard Lost In Time, Fire At Dawn, White Wedding and Believe previously.
You can see the official video for Believe below:
“After releasing Nemesis on Century Media in 1999 and then playing WGT in 2000 we wrote new music for Scheitan but felt it was going in the wrong direction, thus Helltrain was formed instead and Scheitan went into a long period of hiatus“, says multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Pierre Törnkvist about Scheitan‘s comeback. “Scheitan in 2024 is of course not the same as Scheitan in 1999 but these new songs I wrote felt like they sounded like a perfect continuation of the project, so the more I thought about it the more natural it felt to bring it back to life instead of doing something completely new. Musically it’s close to where we left off, and the vocals are now the way I would have wanted them to be already on Nemesis“.
Scheitan started as a black metal band in 1996 by Pierre Törnkvist (guitars, bass and vocals) together with Oscar Karlsson (drums) but transformed during the musical journey into the fields of gothic/ambient rock. Their debut album Travelling In Ancient Times was released in 1996 through Invasion Records, and they released their second full length album Berzerk 2000 in 1998. Century Media signed the band after the contract with Invasion Records was finished and in 1999 the band recorded and released Nemesis but when it was time to write new Scheitan material both Pierre and Oscar felt that it did not fit into the project and Scheitan went on a 24-year hiatus but was brought back to life in 2023 with the single Lost In Time.
Watch the video for The Last Time below:
