Miscreance Premiere Second Album ‘Reminiscence’

Upon signing with Season of Mist in 2022, after crawling through the Italian underground, Miscreance were likened to Death, Sadus, Voivod and other immortal beings who have shaped the alternate timeline that is the history of extreme metal. The band’s thrashing riffs and blistering tempo shifts recall death metal’s golden age, but their upcoming second album, Reminiscence, is quickly proving itself to be far from just another blast from the past.

“What we have here is innovation, classicism, power and talent unmatched”, MetalBites writes in a 9/10 review, “but above all else, Miscreance is a group of musicians who understand the importance of those good ole days and the impact that they are still and should always be having on today’s Scene”

“[…] a four-piece set to stun the world through their progressive thrash/death blend of technicality that continually pushes the parameters of the genre as well as the individuals composing/playing this music” Dead Rhetoric writes in another 9/10 review.

“On Reminiscence, the Northern Italian quartet take the old-school technical death metal blueprint – Death, Atheist, Coroner, Sadus, all the good stuff – and drag it through a prehistoric hallucination full of tribal percussion, psychic violence, alien ritual and fretboard abuse”, writes Decibel, who are premiering the full album stream today.

Reminiscence comes out this Friday, August 28 on Season of Mist, but you can hear all nine mind-altering songs today by listening to the full album stream on Decibel Magazine’s website.

Listen to Reminiscence.

https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2026/08/26/album-premiere-miscreance-reminiscense/

“After meandering through the sands of time, we are finally unearthing our new album Reminiscence”, Miscreance says. “Each of the nine songs on the album take a look into a forgotten past. Together, they merge into a mind-altering experience”.

“Reminiscence is a concept album that tells the story of a lost civilization, suspended in time”, the band continues. “Gifted with psychic powers and driven by an insatiable hunger for prey, this civilization once lived in symbiosis with nature, only for their age of splendor to give way to inexorable decline.

“While writing, we pushed ourselves toward a state of total neural unity, just as the lost tribe at the heart of our story once did. We became so deeply captivated by the concept that we decided to reinterpret the lost album as coherently and faithfully as possible, bringing its sound to life again through an array of tribal and unconventional instruments, unearthly time signatures and ritualistic chants.

“Lose yourself into the abyss and find your true self beyond the edge of reality!”

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Reminiscence isn’t one band’s attempt to recall death metal’s glory days. Opener “Trait d’Union’ begins with funky, bouncing, tribal percussion that one associates with a time long before the dawn of Charvel guitars. “We still play old-school tech-thrash” Miscreance guitarist Andrea Granauro assures. But through a collective hallucination, on their new album, the band venture into dark territory that the genre has yet to travel. Lead single “Scalp Ceremony” shreds at a blood-thirsty pace before banging heads with a flurry of bongos.

“We are all very happy with how our first album turned out, but we wanted to go bigger by tying Reminiscence to a specific concept”, guitarist Tommaso Cappelletti explains. “Adding the tribal instruments to certain songs deepens the connection to the overall story that the album is telling”.

“What we’ve created is a ‘lost album’”, bassist Jean-Claude Rossignol continues. “It comes from an unknown civilization that’s both futuristic and extremely primitive. Through psychic powers and capabilities that transcend earthly comprehension, these primordial extraterrestrials have achieved total neural unity. Yet innate wickedness still lures inside of them, harboring the need for preys, scalps and lust”.

While recorded in their native Italy, Miscreance discovered the concept for Reminiscence by sifting through the sands of time. Along with tech-thrash riffs and proggy tempo shifts, the band uncover didgeridoo, berimbau, telepathic surgeries, strange tongues and a burning celestial corpse. Climbing “The Moaning Hill” is not for the faint of heart, but the intricate twists along its perverse path lead to truly sacred pleasures.

“You’ve never known the face of death / But now it becomes yours”, drummer Andrea Feltrin growls amidst the many peaks hidden within “Oracle’s Rift”. As the band tear through a torturous passage with ruthless precision, the last thing you see – or hear – is death metal’s future mutating right before our eyes.

With Reminiscence, Miscreance unlock a mind-altering experience of old-school technical death metal.

More advanced praise for Reminiscence

“Have you ever wanted Pre-AI Pestilence, Atheist, Cynic and Death rolled into one groovy band? The sophomore album Reminiscence from Miscreance will scratch that itch for you” – Technical Music Review

“There really aren’t many bands like Miscreance kicking around right now who are willing to play this fast with the complex songwriting they’ve got on display” – The Razors Edge

“If you like music that is challenging and expertly crafted, Reminiscence is one of those releases that continues to grow and unravel the more you are listening to it” – Infernal Masquerade

“A lot of tech-death bands these days are so twitchy and over the top, there’s nothing to hang onto. Not so with Miscreance” – Wormwood Chronicles

“As a whole, this album captures Miscreance’s maturity, and we’re starting to see their authentic sound take shape” – Infernal TV

“This is some of the tightest, heaviest and forward-thinking thrash meets death metal since Cynic first began talking about Maya and the subsequent veil, and Atheist were pondering an unquestionable presence” – Black Angel Promotions.

“Not only did these Italians create a completely new universe, but they also innovated thrash and death metal with their diverse riffs and the unexpected use of tribal instruments” – Le Bad Crew

Trait d'Union (4:31) Vision (3:59) Scalp Ceremony (3:14) Synaptic Cortex Dissection (5:02) Oracle's Rift (5:06) The Moaning Hill (2:45) Symbiosis (4:12) Zenith of a Dying Sun (4:19) Mirage (4:27)