The Archaic Course is the third studio album by Norwegian avant-garde metal band Borknagar. The album was recorded, mixed and mastered at Woodhouse Studios between August 17 and September 5, 1998 by Century Media Records and released on October 20 of the same year and now reissued on vinyl by Black Sleeves.

For the first time a limited edition of 475 world wide copies on Picture Disc!! "...if you want a melodic black metal album with a lot of clean, operatic vocals with some normal black metal shrieks mixed in along the way, then this is definitely one of the albums you want to hear.

The Archaic Course is by far Borknagar's most underrated release and it deserves to be heard." - sputnikmusic.com, 2010