Saor Unveil New Single "Carved in Stone MMXXVI"
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SAOR, the one-man Scottish atmospheric black metal project of Andy Marshall, have released "Carved in Stone MMXXVI," accompanied by an official music video. The track is a re-recording of a highlight from 2013's Roots, and stands as the lead single from Caledonia, an album revisiting five songs from Saor's first three records.
"Carved in Stone MMXXVI" is one of five tracks on Caledonia, out November 6th, 2026, on Season of Mist. Rather than a nostalgia exercise, the album presents these songs as they exist today, after years of live performance and refinement, closing a circle between early Saor and the band's current form.
Track list:
1. Aura MMXXVI (11:40)
2. The Awakening MMXXVI (08:58)
3. Carved in Stone MMXXVI (10:19)
4. Hearth MMXXVI (09:58)
5. Tears of a Nation MMXXVI (10:33)
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 lets them arrive at the form Marshall always intended, retaining the character of the originals while giving them the atmosphere and depth his later production work has made possible. Guest contributions from drummer Carlos Vivas, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Ella Zlotos on tin whistle, low whistle, and Uilleann pipes, and violinist Àngela Moya Serrat round out the record's folk instrumentation. The album's visual identity, cover artwork, layout, and an accompanying video for "Carved in Stone," comes from longtime collaborator Anaïs Chareyre-Méjan, whose work has shaped SAOR's imagery since Forgotten Paths and continues to anchor the project's sense of place. Lyrically and thematically, nothing has shifted: Scotland's landscapes and history, a connection to nature, heritage, and personal reflection remain exactly where they were when these songs were first written, still resonant enough, in Marshall's telling, to justify revisiting them with the full weight of everything he has learned since.
