Fresh from releasing their debut EP, the five-track Clangores Plenilunio on Avantgarde Music, Italian black/folk metallers, Selvans, have announced that they have begun recording the band's first full-length album. Work on the album is expected to be completed by the summer, and released on Avantgarde Music in late 2015.

To be titled Lupercalia, the album will be made up of five suites lasting in total around an hour. The suites have been inspired and influenced by ancient Italian history and folklore. It will be very much a continuation of what was started with Clangores Plenilunio, whose music is filled with the Italic spirit and redolent with its mysticism.

 

Selvans rose from the ashes Draugr , who called it a day after ten years at the top of the Italian scene. The band's lineup is composed of former Draugr members Selvans Haruspex on keyboards, traditional instruments, vocals and programming, and Sethlans Fulguriator on guitars and bass. The two musicians form the core of Selvans and bring in session musicians for live appearances. Clangores Plenilunio is the band's tribute to founder member and friend, the much respected drummer Jonny Morelli, whose tragic death in a motor bike accident meant the EP was to be his last ever contribution to the music world.

A never-before heard track from Lupercalia will be debuted live on May 3rd when Selvans supports Necrophobia at Tipografia in Pescara, Italy.

 

 

 

"Lupercale", a track from Selvans' Clangores Plenilunio EP can be heard below: