After an hiatus of 5 years, Akercocke is working on their come-back album. Initially, "Renaissance In Extremis" was due this fall, but since there's still no tangible info on it yet, I think it's safe to say that it'll be at least winter before this album will see the light of day.
UK's Akercocke plays a melodic/progressive type of Black Metal, revolving around classical themes like erotica, hedonism and Faust. Anyone who's into the obscurer en darker types of metal, will do good by checking these guys out.