It’s been over two years since the last time we heard from Swedish trio Pike, who even then were reporting a follow-up to their well-received 2012 debut, To Cross the Great Divide. As of 2017, that will have been released half a decade ago, and as Pike prepare to enter into their ninth year of existence, they do so with the promise of moving forward from their first outing and into a second one. Titled Esox Lucifer and set to be recorded at the increasingly-ubiquitous-as-regards-Swedish-heavy Studio Underjord, the sophomore Pike LP will begin tracking in March, and presumably released at some time before the end of next year through a yet-undetermined label.

Pike now have a couple years under their collective belt working with guitarist Ludwig Lovén, and if the sporadic practice videos they’ve posted on the social medias are anything to go by, they’ve been refining the material for Esox Lucifer for a while, so I’d expect it to be fairly hammered out by the time they actually get to the recording process. Whether that will speed things along or not will have to remain to be seen.

Here’s what they had to say about it:

PIKE: RECORDING NEW ALBUM

Finally, we can reveal some big and exciting news.

On March 17th 2017, roughly five years after the release of the critically acclaimed debut album “To Cross The Great Divide”, we will enter Studio Underjord together with producer extraordinaire Joona Hassinen (Vanhelgd, Ocean Chief, Tombstones etc) to record the long overdue follow-up. We can divulge that the album will be called “Esox Lucifer”, it will contain six tracks and it will melt your face like nothing ever has.

That is all the info we can share with you at this time. Keep watching the usual spaces for news.

Death, doom & destruction,
Pike

Pike is:
Ludvig Lovén: guitar
Alvin Risberg: drums
Alex Risberg: bass & vocals

https://www.facebook.com/PikeSweden/
http://pike.bandcamp.com/
http://instagram.com/pikemusic
http://pikesweden.bigcartel.com/

Pike, To Cross the Great Divide (2012)