Season of Mist is proud to welcome SHAPE OF DESPAIR back to the roster! The Finnish funeral doom legends are not really new to the label, which already released SHAPE OF DESPAIR’s albums ‘Shades of…’ and ‘Illusion’s Play’, as well as the ‘Shape of Despair’ compilation in North America. The band’s forthcoming full-length will be released via Season of Mist on a worldwide scale.
Norwegian black metal tyrants 1349 (Ravn -Vocals, Frost [SATYRICON] – Drums, Seidemann – Bass, Archaon – Guitars) are streaming their vicious new full-length album ‘Massive Cauldron of Chaos’. The album, which has been called “a welcome return for 1349 and a record that will surely reconfirm their standing in the modern black metal world” (Metal Hammer UK) and “their most eclectic and perhaps definitive album to date” (New Noise Magazine) is streaming now at Lambgoat.com.
Dutch progressive quartet EXIVIOUS have just released a new stunning play through video for the song “Deeply Woven” taken from their album ‘Liminal’. The clip can be viewed here. Disclaimer: Please take care not to break or entangle your fingers while trying to copy the moves of former CYNIC guitarist Tymon Kruidenier!
Canadian post-hardcore outfit KEN mode and Welsh heavy rock power trio HARK are kicking off their three week road trip today, September 25th at the Winston in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The power pair will continue to rock through nine European countries until their final show in the UK at Swansea’s Garage on October 19th. All dates can be viewed below.
Acclaimed Finnish melancholic metal band GHOST BRIGADE have released a second teaser video in advance of their highly anticipated new full-length ‘IV – One with the Storm’, which has been scheduled for release on November 7th. The tongue in cheek clip, featuring music taken from the new album and a quite witchy touch, can be viewed here.
Australian progressive metal outfit NE OBLIVISCARIS are now unveiling a new track of their forthcoming second album ‘Citadel’. “Painters of the Tempest (Part III): Reveries from the Stained Glass Womb” is exclusively streaming via these official media partners:
NECROPHAGIA are now unleashing a new crushing song of their forthcoming evil masterpiece ‘WhiteWorm Cathedral’. The masters of US horror metal have conspired with the following official media partners in crime to exclusively stream “Elder Things”:
NIGHTBRINGER are now premiering their soul crushing new full length ‘Ego Dominus Tuus’. The American orthodox black metal cultists have chosen the following official media partners to exclusively stream the album in full:
Season of Mist are proud to announce that FLOOR and SÓLSTAFIR have been chosen to perform at the next edition of the prestigious Roadburn Festival in 2015!
French Oriental metal act ARKAN are premiering the first video clip taken from their third full-length ‘Sofia’. “Hayati” is now exclusively streaming via these official media partners:
OBSIDIAN KINGDOM have been chosen as the first opening act for SÓLSTAFIR’s upcoming European dates!
MENACE, the musically many-faceted brainchild of NAPALM DEATH axeman Mitch Harris, is premiering a new video featuring a track taken from their album ‘Impact Velocity’. The amazing clip for the song “Malicious Code” is now exclusively streaming via these official media partners:
French black metal instigators SETH are now exclusively premiering their video for the song “One Ear to the Earth, One Eye on Heaven” via these official media partners:
Season of Mist is proud to announce that nearly all bands performing on the second day of the Ritual Cvlt Fest in Barcelona, Spain have been picked from this label’s roster. On Friday, October 3rd there will be performances by the following groups at Razzmatazz: GHOST BRIGADE (FI), OBSIDIAN KINGDOM (ES), KEN mode (CA), and HARK (UK) as well as NICHOLAS BULLEN (UK).
Maldivian melodic deathers NOTHNEGAL have been chosen to join the mighty KREATOR, ARCH ENEMY, and HELL on a string of dates in France and Spain! See a list of all confirmed shows below:
CORRUPT MORAL ALTAR are keeping themselves extremely busy. The grinding sludge maniacs with hit the road together with TEETHING for the second leg of their UK tour 2014 at the King Billy in Hull, England on September 11th. The English will proceed to start riots with their partners in crime SICK/TIRED in continental Europe beginning on the 19th of October in Brugge, Belgium at Hof van Beroep. On further news CORRUPT MORAL ALTAR have now released a lyric video featuring the song “Garland Greene” featuring Jeff Walker of Carcass fame, which can be viewed here!
Canadian death metallers NECRONOMICON just announced they started to write the follow-up to last year’s ‘Rise of the Elder Ones’! The band issued the following statement: “As up today we would like to announce that we are officially writing a new album. We already have 2 or 3 title options for the album and artwork ideas, but nothing is 100% sure. Hopefully we’ll be in studio really soon. As always thanks for your support and keep the spirit alive.”
Season of Mist proudly congratulate Sólstafir for their epic new masterpiece ‘Ótta’ to enter the album charts in several countries in week #36. So far these positions have been reported: Iceland #1! Finland #2 and Germany #25! As well as Switzerland #64 and Austria #65!
NIGHTBRINGER are now unleashing a new song taken from their ripping new full length ‘Ego Dominus Tuus’. The American orthodox black metal cultists have chosen “The Otherness of Being” to be exclusively streamed via these official media partners:
NECROPHAGIA are now unveiling a new gut wrenching-track of their forthcoming evil masterpiece ‘WhiteWorm Cathedral’. The kings of US horror metal have teamed up with the following official media partners in crime to exclusively stream “Reborn Through Black Mass”: