English neofolk and neoclassical group SOL INVICTUS will release their new album The Cruellest Month on June 10th. Album artwork was painted by Tor Lundvall. View the cover below:

Tracklisting for The Cruellest Month is as follows:

‘Raining In April’

‘To Kill All Kings’

‘The Sailor's Aria’

‘Fools' Ship’

‘Toys’

‘Edward’

‘The Bad Luck Bird’

‘April Rain’

‘Cruel Lincoln’

‘Something's Coming’

‘Stella Maris’

‘The Cruellest Month’

‘The Blackleg Miner’

Further information on The Cruellest Month as well as pre-order options will be released soon.

Also, in tandem with The Cruellest Month, the slipcase box-set, The Collected Works, will be released on June 10th. This collection of Sol Invictus and Tony Wakeford recordings is assembled in a big slipcase-box (size approx. 22x13x14 cm) with 27 CDs and three DVDs forming the records listed below. All albums are clad in Digipaks and enhanced by new, uniform artwork, liner-notes by Tony Wakeford and additional bonus material. All of the included albums will also see their single release in the coming months and years but four bonus CDs (coming in cardsleeves) are exclusive to this box-set.

The name of each customer preordering the Collected Works will be printed on a thanks-list included in the slipcase until May 30th. Also each pre-ordered box will come with a short thank-you note, handwritten and signed by Tony Wakeford.

Included records:

Against The Modern World (plus nine bonus tracks)

In the Jaws Of The Serpent ( plus DVD Live in Hamburg 1991)

Lex Talionis ( plus four bonus tracks)

Trees In Winter (plus three bonus tracks)

The Killing Tide (plus seven bonus tracks)

King & Queen (plus eight bonus tracks)

Black Europe (plus DVD Tony Wakeford Live In Lyon 1993)

Let Us Prey (plus CD Live at CBGB's)

La Croix ( plus one bonus track)

Death Of The West (plus three bonus tracks)

In The Rain (plus two bonus tracks)

Cupid & Death (plus five bonus tracks)

The Blade (plus 4 bonus tracks)

In Europa (plus DVD Live At WGT, Völkerschlachtdenkmal 1998 and two bonus tracks)

In A Garden Green (plus CD Live In Villeurbanne 1999)

The Hill Of Crosses (two CD, plus nine bonus tracks)

Thrones (two CD, plus 11 bonus tracks)

The Devil's Steed (plus four bonus tracks)

The Cruellest Month

Box exclusive:

Trieste (live)

Brugge (live)

Aprilis (unreleased instrumental loops and one unreleased song from the The Cruellest Month sessions)

Rarities (fourteen rare and/or unreleased tracks)

Pre-order now: Sol Invictus The Collected Works here.