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Saor announces new album Caledonia; debuts “Carved In Stone MMXXVI”

By Josh_Doe #Saor, #Season of Mist

Photo by: David Ruff

Official press release:

Saor has announced Caledonia, a new album of re-recordings from the one-man Scottish atmospheric black metal project’s first three albums. Far from an exercise in nostalgia, Caledonia finds Andy Marshall presenting these five songs as they exist today, after years of refinement on stage, bearing the full weight of everything he’s learned.

Watch the music video for “Carved in Stone MMXXVI” via the Season of Mist YouTube channel below.

Caledonia comes out November 6th on Season of Mist. Pre-order & pre-save at https://orcd.co/saorcaledonia.

Under standing stones and a sky lit by starlight, the 2026 re-recording of “Carved in Stone” glimmers with archaic prophecy and ghostly whispers that summon ancestral wisdom, before arriving at a moment of clarity: a destiny unfolding, an ascent beyond the ordinary. Since the song appeared on Saor’s debut full-length album, Roots, it has stood as one of Marshall’s most direct evocations of the Highland landscapes and lore that have defined the project since its inception. With this re-recording, it’s now carried by a decade of additional scale and atmosphere.

Caledonia will be available in the following formats:

  • CD Digipak
  • 2×12” Vinyl Gatefold (Black)
  • 2×12” Vinyl Gatefold (Black and white marbled)
  • 2×12” Vinyl Gatefold (Opaque orange and black marbled)

Caledonia finds Andy Marshall doing something few artists in his position ever attempt: applying everything he has learned as a producer, arranger, and performer over the past decade back onto the songs that started it all. Rather than a pause in Saor’s forward motion, it is a deliberate act of craftsmanship, five compositions from Roots, Aura, and Guardians rebuilt from the ground up with producer Chris Fielding, given the scale and depth Marshall always heard in them but lacked the resources to fully realise the first time around.

Caledonia does not reinvent Saor’s past. It completes it, offering listeners the chance to hear where these songs have been all along, and where, after more than a decade, Marshall has finally brought them.​

Caledonia track listing:

  1. “Aura MMXXVI”
  2. “The Awakening MMXXVI”
  3. “Carved in Stone MMXXVI”
  4. “Hearth MMXXVI”
  5. “Tears of a Nation MMXXVI”