Read the latest metal news from Season of Mist on this page, which is updated on a weekly basis. Stay up to date about new Season of Mist and Underground Activists band signings, upcoming albums and new singles, special live shows, festivals and tours, re-releases, label news and the newest shop additions! Follow Season of Mist on social media for live updates and to get the latest news and music first.
Weedeater just sparked up a fresh run of U.S. tour dates, but the sludgy stoners are riding so high off their first two shows that they already need a re-up. Today, the band are announcing another month’s worth of dates, including an especially uproarious run with GWAR.
No one can outsmart Replacire. Not only does the band hold several degrees from Berklee College of Music. Even their name is something of a puzzle. But for their long-awaited third album, they weren’t interested in pumping out just another set of rigorously technical death metal. As their new single so finely demonstrates, they wanted to flex both their brains and brawn.
One of the ways Necrofier are making a mark on American black metal is their guitar tone. After all, the band do hail from Houston, Texas, where the unforgiving heat causes their tremolo picking to burn with more fire than other keepers of the black flame.
In an era where the echoes of revolution have dulled to whispers, SETH roars back into the heart of the metal realm with their newest single Et Que Vive le Diable ! – a defiant anthem from their forthcoming opus, La France des Maudits. Channeling the unrest of spirits that once roamed the revolutionary streets of Paris, this track is a declaration – a spell that rekindles the flames of rebellion and ignites the soul with insurrection’s fire.
Oceans of Slumber defy any and all convention. For the past 15 years, the Houston band have come to redefine what it means to be Southern Gothic by mixing melodic death, doom and black metal with subtle electronic flourishes and the overpowering heat of their hometown. Now, after signing with Season of Mist, they’re extending their progressive streak even further by envisioning a dark and cinematic new subgenre that’s theirs and theirs alone.
Green Carnation are carefully plotting their next step. The Norwegian progressive metal band are beginning the preparations for the follow up to Leaves of Yesteryear, which was considered among the best albums of 2020 by Heavy Music HQ, Angry Metal Guy and Metal Injection.
Though they formed during the first trying year of the pandemic, Black Lava erupted on their scorching debut. Now, just two years later, these Aussies are roaring back with more blackened heavy metal on The Savage Winds to Wisdom.
Black Tusk are debuting their new single “Breath of Life” with Decibel Magazine. The video was produced by Alexandra Petrovich. “Breath of Life” comes ahead of the band’s new album, The Way Forward, which is out April 26 on Season of Mist.
On their upcoming new album, Benighted crawl through a house of horrors. Ekbom doesn’t tread so much as it tramples the line between sanity and madness. After all, the title takes its name from a real-life syndrome that makes people believe their skin is infested with bugs.
Necrofier are riding one hell of a hot streak. Houston’s heaviest melodic black metal band kept the black flame burning on an especially Satanic 20th edition of the Decibel Magazine Tour. Upon returning home, they ignited their home crowd at Hell’s Heroes, alongside their label mates NITE and Rotting Christ.
Night Shall Drape Us came together from corners of the Nordic underground, bound by bonds of blood and spirit, to create traditional black metal executed to perfection. Their third offering from their upcoming debut album hails our impending doom.
Bask have taken us on quite a long, strange and head-banging trip. Ten years ago, the band came thundering down from the Blue Ridge Mountains with their heavy, heady and heartfelt vision on Americana.
Hard-hitting metal ensemble DVRK proudly rolls out F.A.M, the debut single from the eagerly anticipated EP Infinite Reminiscence. This launch comes as part of the band’s grand news of their fresh signing with Season of Mist.
Gaerea are sharpening their blades ahead of their feverishly anticipated fourth album, which is scheduled to come out later this year. But first, these shrouded assassins are unleashing their cathartic black metal vortex across Asia.
It’s time to unleash the beast, as ROTTING CHRIST unleashes Saoirse, the latest single from their forthcoming 14th studio album – the monumental Pro Xristou. A 35-year-strong journey through the catacombs of extreme metal spearheaded by the inimitable brothers Sakis and Themis Tolis gives you the backdrop of what should rightly be anticipated.
Norwegian Black Metal Titans 1349 Team Up with Folk-Black Vanguard Kampfar for a Tour That Promises to Ignite the European Underground.
Eivør comes from one of the smallest places on the planet. She grew up in a village of 400 people, tucked away among the Faroe Islands. But her music, which is shaped by the natural wonders of her homeland, has brought her all over the world. She’s performed at Europe’s biggest festivals and co-composed the soundtracks to Netflix’s hit series The Last Kingdom and the award-winning video game God of War: Ragnarök.
From the Shadows of the Underground to the Spotlight of Europe: Benighted Sets the Stage Ablaze with Baest & Coffin Feeder on the BEAST AGAINST BEAST Tour 2024.
Avant-garde metal warriors SYK are back again, paving their path through the wilderness of conventional music with the release of their latest single, the Cross. This latest revelation takes a leap forward from their groundbreaking first single, eartHFlesh, leading listeners deeper into the intellectual labyrinth they’ve crafted.
THY CATAFALQUE treads upon the path less traveled yet again, unveiling an intriguing twist in their latest creation with the release of a brand-new single Babylon. The avant-garde metal powerhouse, lead by Tamás Kátai, resurrects the energy of the classic Hungarian space rock band Omega. A track originally crafted in the ’80s, THY CATAFALQUE has spun the track in a new, fresh way.