Season of Mist is proud to welcome infamous industrial Death Metal act THE PROJECT HATE MCMXCIX to the roster! The Swedes’ 6 song, 60+ minute seventh album will be mixed and mastered by Dan Swanö and has been tentatively scheduled for an early 2011 release. Band leader Lord K. Philipson made the following comment:

Portuguese doomsters AVA INFERI are nearly done with the recording sessions of their forthcoming fourth album! Mainman Rune Eriksen sent the following update:

As previously announced, KYLESA‘s eagerly anticipated fifth album is entitled “Spiral Shadow” and will be out on October 26th. Recorded at the Jam Room in Columbia, SC earlier this summer, the eleven-track album was once again produced by band member and renowned producer Phillip Cope (Baroness, Withered). Since the release of breakthrough album “Static Tensions”, the co-ed Savannah-based quintet has been working non-stop including an unrelenting tour schedule that took them around the globe three times, writing songs for the new album and ultimately recording “Spiral Shadow“.

“Handful of Stars”, DRUDKH’s forthcoming eighth album, will hit the shelves on September 20th. As for previous opus “Microcosmos”, a deluxe box-set version will be available with a bonus 3″ CD and extra goodies! Here are the contents of this lush leather book, strictly limited to 600 copies:

Four years after the critically acclaimed “Generator”, Italian electro/post black metallers ABORYM are back with their fifth album! Set for a November 8th release, the new full-length is entitled “Psychogrotesque” and is made of one story, a single song written four-handedly by the band’s mastermind Malfeitor Fabban and talented new guitarist Hell:IO:Kabbalus.

Southern metallers THE SIGN OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS are currently in studio, hard at work on new songs. You might want to check the band’s MySpace page and YouTube channel for updates and videos of the recording sessions.

Forefathers of progressive extreme metal ATHEIST parted ways with bassist Tony Choy. Freshly done with the recording sessions of long-awaited fourth studio album “Jupiter”, the band wrote the following statement:

As previously announced, French black metallers OTARGOS will release their fourth album on August 30th (September 14th in North America) on Season of Mist Underground Activists. Download the “Cloning the Divine” song for free here!

“Streams Inwards”, MAR DE GRISES’s forthcoming album, will be released on August 30th (September 14th in North America). You can now download a full song from the album for free! Check out “Shining Human Skin” here.

Having just completed the recording sessions of their forthcoming album, KYLESA are now touring Europe with CONVERGE.

Technical death metal pioneers ATHEIST are currently hard at work on their forthcoming full-length at LedBelly studios near Atlanta, Georgia. The long-awaited fourth album is entitled “Jupiter” and is tentatively due in November.

Ukrainian dark poets DRUDKH’s eighth full-length will be out next September 20th (October 12th in North America) on Season of Mist’s Underground Activists division. Here are the cover artwork and tracklisting of “Handful of Stars”:

Californian thrashers HIRAX’ new release is out now! Watch the video trailer for this compilation of three thrashing EP’s, re-mastered & re-mixed and available on CD for the first time!

What better season than the summer to announce the signing of a band from the Maldives? Season of Mist is happy to welcome newcomers NOTHNEGAL to the roster! The whole staff can’t wait to go and see the band play live in their home country…

Now that the entire back catalogue of Ukrainian black poets DRUDKH has been re-released as restored versions in Digipaks with exclusive artworks, it is time to move on to the next step. Hence, DRUDKH’s brand new album has been set for a September 20th release, and will be entitled “Handful of Stars”.

Season of Mist and World Management are proud to announce that legendary Extreme Music masters Morbid Angel entered the studio on June 22nd to begin the recording of their ninth full-length. Recording commenced at Mana Studios, St. Petersburg Florida with Erik Rutan engineering the current sessions. For all the fans of Morbid Angel world wide, the long wait for new extreme music will soon be over…

Greek dark metallers SEPTICFLESH are currently hard at work on the follow-up to 2008’s “Communion” album. The recording process is scheduled to start on the middle of the summer at the band’s newly built Devasoundz studios in Athens, Greece. Guitarist Christos Antoniou will once again go to Prague, Czech Republic to record the orchestral parts.

We are very proud to announce that, two weeks after the release of WATAIN’s fourth monument “Lawless Darkness”, the album entered the Swedish charts! “Lawless Darkness” ranked number 26 in the album charts on June 14th, all musical genres taken together. Congratulations guys!

Californian thrashers HIRAX’ new compilation will be released worldwide next week. You can now download a full song from “Noise Chaos War”, entitled “Walk With Death”.

MAR DE GRISES’s forthcoming album is entitled “Streams Inwards” and will be released on August 30th (September 14th in North America). Here are the tracklisting and cover artwork of the Chilean doomsters’ third full-length: