December 5th, 2025
| Cryptopsy | Cave Art Venue | Shanghai | China |
| Dopelord | Chemiefabrik | Dresden | Germany |
| DVRK | Mister Rock | Belo Horizonte | Brazil |
| Ne Obliviscaris | Goldfield | Roseville, CA | United States |
| Nightfall | Zappa Barka | Belgrade | Serbia |
| Oak, Ash & Thorn | Turock | Essen | Germany |
| Pessimist | Rome | Defrag | Italy |
Posted on December 4, 2025
Enthroned return with Ashspawn, a ritualistic work forged from six years of creation. Blending esoteric frameworks by Gilles de Laval with ferocious black metal, the album charts a descent into spiritual death and transformative rebirth. A culmination of the band’s three-decade legacy, it stands as their most intense and purposeful offering to date.
Posted on December 3, 2025
HÉR share “Patience in Observation,” a reflective single from Monochrome. Shaped by spacious melodies and calm percussive flow, the track explores measured growth and elemental stillness. Its lyrics trace riverbanks, wind, and distant peaks, offering a meditation on clarity gained through observing the world’s natural rhythm.
Posted on December 2, 2025
Rotting Christ return with “AEALO”, the revitalised title track from their forthcoming re-recorded edition of Aealo. Enhanced with modern production, the 2025 version intensifies the song’s martial percussion, lamentation choirs, and Hellenic melodic motifs, reinforcing the album’s tragic vision of warfare and ancestral ritual. Aealo (Re-Recorded) arrives January 23, 2026.
Posted on November 27, 2025
London Sessions, the new EP by The Old Dead Tree, is now streaming on YouTube ahead of its November 28 release. Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, the EP blends two new songs with reimagined pieces from The Perpetual Motion, tracing the band’s evolution within French dark progressive metal.
Posted on November 25, 2025
Ponte del Diavolo present “Spirit, Blood, Poison, Ferment!,” the new single from De Venom Natura, out February 13, 2025 via Season of Mist. Featuring Davide Straccione of Shores of Null, the track channels the band’s raw dual-bass tension, ritual percussion, and incantatory vocals, capturing their signature blackened post-punk atmosphere.
Posted on November 24, 2025
Finnish grindcore veterans Rotten Sound return with Mass Extinction, a blistering EP where “Idealist” blends cynical D-beat energy and politically charged intensity. In just nine minutes, the band pushes their sound toward a sharper, more urgent edge. Listen to the new single now on the Season of Mist YouTube channel.
Posted on November 18, 2025
PONTE DEL DIAVOLO Reveal a Lethal New Chapter With De Venom Natura.
Posted on November 17, 2025
As they prepare to follow up their latest list-topping, Billboard-busting album, Philly's finest death metal band are kicking off 2026 by celebrating an earlier record that has come to define their steady upward trajectory.
Posted on November 13, 2025
Forged from the legacy of CROWN, France’s Your Inland Empire debut on Season of Mist with a self-titled album merging industrial darkwave and post-metal. Written amid turmoil and transformation, it channels the “dark night of the soul” through cinematic tension, visceral emotion, and the haunting precision of David Husser’s production.
Posted on November 12, 2025
Belgium’s Enthroned return with “Ashen Advocacy,” the final and most introspective chapter of Ashspawn. Conceived as a slow-burning psalm of judgment and renewal, it channels the album’s central themes of dissolution and rebirth through ritual percussion, mid-tempo dissonance, and searing intensity.
Posted on November 11, 2025
Alkaloid present their first live album, Bach Out of Bounds, recorded during three performances in the Netherlands where the ensemble bridge Baroque composition with progressive death metal. Featuring reimagined Bach works, expanded arrangements of fan favourites and two new pieces, the release captures the band’s most ambitious fusion of classical precision and extreme metal to date.
Posted on November 10, 2025
France’s YOUR INLAND EMPIRE unveil their new single “Edge of Perfection”: a brutal and hypnotic surge of industrial punk and post-metal intensity. Built on convulsive rhythms and serrated riffs, it captures a descent into addiction and transcendence, where flesh and machinery collide.
Originally founded in France and now represented worldwide, Season of Mist has gained the reputation for being an innovative, wide spectrum metal label, interested in exploring and developing new artists and bands. The metal label represents world class metal acts, but also leads the hordes towards new creative horizons and remains true to the underground via the sub label Season of Mist Underground Activists. Variety is the spice of life.
Season of Mist has three official offices based in Marseilles (FR), Philadelphia (US) and Vaassen (NL). Having multiple offices, the metal label is heavily represented in the world’s leading markets for metal and rock music; Europe and America. All releases are promoted with reviews, interviews, advertisements, samplers, giveaways, merchandise, touring and more.
Besides its activities as a record label, the Season of Mist online shop is the place to visit for vinyl, band merchandise and special box sets. The distribution branch of the company distributes releases from countless other labels. Combining all these activities, Season of Mist has become one of the biggest independent record companies in today’s metal community.
