Scheitan release new album ‘Wine For a Tormented Soul, video for ‘A Kiss of Death’ out now
Scheitan
Swedish gothic rock band Scheitan have released their new album “Wine For a Tormented Soul” through Greek label The Circle Music. The CD edition is dated 19 December 2025, while the digital version on Bandcamp carries a 20 December 2025 release date. The band mark the release with a new video for the opening track “A Kiss of Death“.
“Wine For a Tormented Soul” is Scheitan’s fifth full-length album and the direct follow-up to their 2024 comeback record “Songs For the Gothic People”, also released by The Circle Music on CD, vinyl and digital formats. The new album contains eight songs: “A Kiss of Death”, “Heaven Tonight”, “Döden är helt underbar”, “Love n´ Death”, “Every Little Thing”, “Out of Here”, “Carry Me Home” and “Dream Away”.
Several tracks on the album were already introduced as singles ahead of the full release. “Carry Me Home”, “Heaven Tonight” and “Love n´ Death” all appeared as standalone digital releases via The Circle Music’s Bandcamp page in 2024 and 2025.
Frontman Pierre Törnkvist describes the personal background of “Wine For a Tormented Soul” like this: “I am very much looking forward to presenting the new Scheitan album to the audience. The title ‘Wine For a Tormented Soul’ comes from what music can mean to people that run into hardship in life. Music is my therapy, it is my best friend in dark times. The last 10 years have been a bumpy road with one of my best friends passing away too early as well as my father leaving us from one day to another.”
He adds that several songs were already heard as singles, but now sit in the context of a full album and a physical format.
About Scheitan
Scheitan is a gothic rock band from Luleå, Norrbotten, Sweden, formed in 1996 by guitarist, bassist and vocalist Pierre Törnkvist together with drummer Oscar Karlsson. The project began as a black metal act, debuting with the full-length “Travelling in Ancient Times” on German label Invasion Records in 1996.
Scheitan’s second album “Berzerk 2000” followed in 1998, again on Invasion Records, and mixed melancholic gothic and ambient rock with the harsher vocals of their early period. In 1999 the band signed to Century Media Records for their third album “Nemesis”, recorded in Luleå and released on CD and cassette formats. Around the time of “Nemesis”, Scheitan appeared at the Wave-Gotik-Treffen festival in Leipzig before entering a long hiatus.
After 1999 the band remained inactive for roughly twenty-four years. In 2023 Scheitan returned with the single “Lost In Time“, released digitally. Later that year they issued the single “Fire At Dawn“, whose lyric video premiered on Side-Line, followed by a cover of Billy Idol’s “White Wedding” and the single “Believe” in early 2024.
Scheitan signed to The Circle Music for their comeback full-length “Songs For the Gothic People”, released on CD, vinyl and digital platforms in May 2024, with different formats appearing between 18 and 28 May 2024. We had an interview with Scheitan around that time.
From 2023 onwards the group released several digital singles including “Lost In Time”, “Fire At Dawn”, “Believe”, “Fury Flow”, “Love n’ Death”, “Heaven Tonight (Remix by Ashbury Heights)” and “Döden är helt underbar”, all released via The Circle Music’s Bandcamp ahead of “Wine For a Tormented Soul”.
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