On their official website, Summoning announced:

"After a longer winter-sleep summoning is back again and ow works constantly for a new release. We promise that in the near future we will regularly update the homepage again, so it will we worth the costs to check the page in regular intervals.

The present situation of Summoning:

In the past years we have worked on new material just very rarely because of different reasons (partly personal, partly being not motivated enough) but since the last months ,we intensified the work for new material and realised, that the old spirit is back again and we are very motivated for a cool new release and we are very committed in every terms of composing.

Meanwhile there are two songs which are fix starters for the album. 4 or 5 songs are in a more advance state and we composed riffs for at least 10 or 15 songs in a very early state. Btw. we still have one finished song from the last oath bound session which also will be in one or another way. so probably this time we are in the luck situation that we have more songs left, so maybe there will be some special limited fan releases beside the normal release, but this is of course just a wish right now.

We hope that until the end of this year most of the material for the new album can be finished. In the moment we have no concrete conception about the lyrical concept. All we can say right now is, that Summoning is still alive and middle earth will awake again."


With all the rumours going on about Silenus's (confirmed) heart attack and the band losing motivation to carry on, no words can say how stoked I am.

Wonderful news.

Finally, great news indeed, good to see the guys back in action.

Nice, thanks!
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These are amazing news, I'm so glad to hear they're back.

very promising news. Summoning are super unique and glad to hear they decided to continue making music.

Awesome, been waiting for this!

I think I'm more pumped to see what the artwork will look like than the music. The music I know will be great, but I want to see what adorns it.

So stoked about this. Glad to hear the spirit is back. Everyone gets burnt out once in a while.

Hell yeah! I'm glad they aren't done yet!

So glad to hear that Summoning are back in action! Hopefully Silenius has made a full recovery and things will move quickly. One of my favorite bands ever, I hope that they continue to crank out stellar albums for years to come!

fuck yes.

Great news, but waiting is going to be really hard. I know that this is something I am going to be checking for news regularly.

Victory is ours!

Awesome!

Who cares?

Haha just kidding, I'm pretty fucking stoked.

^haha You got me there. I didn't scroll down enough to see the rest at first.

But yea, so ecstatic.

pretty fucking stoked about this, good to hear they're back. now we just gotta play the waiting game

why that? probably it will juts be yet another LOTR artwork already known, won't it? but that aside I, too, am quite stoked about this news!

Not really. There are tons of great landscape or scenic artworks to choose from, and the last album is proof that you really don't need LOTR art to make it happen. Each Summoning album has an identity and the artwork is, of course, what plays the biggest part of that identity (at least to me).

Excuse me while I find the nearest mountain to stand atop and shriek my thanks so all may hear.

Wow, THIS is some excellent news. I was beginning to worry that they'd thrown in the towel, but damn, this is some juicy news. I hope it doesn't take them too long to finish off those songs. Still, just knowing that they're hard at work on a new album is enough for me right now. Hail Summoning.

Seriously i cannot wait!! it's been 6 years since oath bound, i'm looking forward to this a lot.

Whatever new material they compose, I really hope it sounds like the Nightshade Forests EP.

Awesome fucking news! Looking forward to a new album, anything Summoning does is pure, musical gold.

Sorry to spoil it for you, but it won't.

absolutely amazing news I hope this album kicks life back into the band and we got more frequent releases....have listened to their discography so much already so need some fresh material

I'd rather not. It's my favourite release by those guys, but I'm skeptical as to whether a band that is long past that phase could again write material of that style of equally good quality. My sole wish is that it will be less like Oath Bound; more material like Across the Streaming Tide and Northward is by all means welcome, but songs like Land of the Dead and Mirdautas Vras should never appear on a Summoning album again.

This is great news!

Those sorts of tracks give awesome contrast in small doses, but an entire album of that sort of thing might get kind of cloying. Still, good music is good music, so if Summoning theoretically ever did write an entirely non-metal album, I'd still greatly enjoy it if the material were stellar enough. Say if they crafted a masterpiece of dungeon synth scaled to absolutely incredible proportions...I don't think I could bring myself to be unhappy about that.

"Across the Streaming Tide," by the way, is one of the best songs they've ever created, and it kind of baffles me that I rarely hear anyone mention it. It's always OOHH SHIT LAND OF THE DEAD BRO.

And Nightshade Forests is indeed worship-worthy. It's probably my overall favorite release by the band, as well. "Habbanan Beneath the Stars" is another one of those incredible tracks that people rarely seem to touch on.

Exciting news, literally just listened to their album Stronghold again too lol.

I'm probably the only one hoping for this, but I'd gladly welcome something that is a good contrast between Lugburz and Stronghold/Minas Morgul. A real drummer and some more of their old BM sound wouldn't bother me at all.

This is wonderful news! And I don't care what it sounds like (well, except I wouldn't want it to sound like Lugburz), I know it will be great. Though if it sounds like Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame, I won't complain about that, either.

This is good news, and certainly news I've been hoping for. But, I'm not too surprised either, since it seemed like more of a question of when Summoning will resume. To be honest, I'd be even more excited over an announcement of a new Ice Ages album, but I'm most certainly in the minority on that one.

Every Summoning album sounds very different to me. I don't compare them, and I don't expect to compare the new one either. Even if I think they did sound similar, comparison wouldn't do me or anyone else any favors.

Er, I agree that each album sounds different from the others, but you don't see any commonality between them?

He did not say that, John. He said they sounded very different to him, which is a long way from claiming that there is absolutely no likeness.

Excellent. I feel like I'm the one in the luck situation.