Prophecy Productions recently issued some very exciting news for fans of Finland’s masters of dark neofolk Tenhi. The long-awaited new album Saivo will be coming out before the end of the year, and the band is currently wrapping up the recording process, according to this update:

“Sorry for the sparse updates about ‘Saivo’. We hoped to get the album out this summer and didn’t want to disappoint you before all hope was gone. Despite the hopefully final delays, the album is well underway and the final parts are being recorded within couple of weeks, namely choirs and cello parts. We plan to finish our works on the album by the end of August eventually. ‘Saivo’ has taken its time and we didn’t want to rush it. Almost every of the song has gone through a huge variety of alternative arrangements until we felt that we had achieved best result.

Perhaps just as exciting for me is the announcement that all of the band’s previous albums (Kauan, Väre, Airut:aamujen, and Maaäet) will be re-released by Prophecy, and the new editions will come with significantly enhanced booklets and artwork. Tenhi has a knack for crafting artwork that perfectly matches the sparse, wintry atmosphere of their songs, so I’m very eager to see how the new editions turn out.