After 17 long years, the progressive metal forefathers return to the North American tour trail! ATHEIST are personally delivering the monumental sounds of the critically acclaimed new album “Jupiter” to seven lucky cities. Main support will come from Philadelphia’s metalcore champs and new fellow label mates A LIFE ONCE LOST, Relapse Records recording artists REVOCATION and Prosthetic recording artists LAST CHANCE TO REASON.
Razorgrind metallers LENG TCH’E will take their latest album “Hypomanic” to the road, touring Europe with KILLCHAIN.
Trivia: What do Hans-Erik Dyvik Husby [ex TURBONEGRO], Tim Skold [ex MARILYN MANSON, KMFDM, SHOTGUN MESSIAH], Anders Odden [ex CELTIC FROST SATYRICON, APOPTYGMA BERZERK], Audun Stengel [ex APOPTYGMA BERZERK] and David Husvik [ex EXTOL] have in common? They recently teamed up to form DOCTOR MIDNIGHT & THE MERCY CULT, a band which Season of Mist just had the pleasure to ink a deal with!
Season of Mist is proud to welcome US groove metal prodigies A LIFE ONCE LOST to the roster!
Shouting stars WATAIN just won the national Grammy Award in the Hard Rock category! The ceremony was held at the Royal Opera in Stockholm, Sweden, last Monday. Congratulations, guys!
As previously announced, melodic dark metallers OMMATIDIA’s debut album has been scheduled for a March 21st release in France, Benelux and Switzerland. Here are the tracklisting and artwork of “In this Life, or the Next”:
To coincide with OF LEGENDS’ forthcoming US tour sharing stages with NORMA JEAN, the band’s debut “Stranded” will be available digitally one month prior to the physical release. Check out iTunes, Amazon MP3 or your usual legal download platform on February 21st!
After 2008’s highly innovative debut “Hilal”, ARKAN will be back with their sophomore album on April 18th! Once again blending middle-eastern music with European death metal, the French / Algerian / Moroccan band named this new release “Salam”, which means “peace”.
BENIGHTED’s sixth album will hit the stores on March 21st (March 29th in the US), in a digipak edition limited to the first pressing. The French death metallers’ new opus is entitled “Asylum Cave” and tells the story of a schizophrenic man and the abysses of his delirium about Josef Fritzl. Here are the cover artwork and tracklisting:
French metallers MINUSHUMAN just entered the Conkrete Studio with producer Mobo (OTARGOS, ERYN NON DAE, WARATTAH…) who had worked on 2008’s “Watch the World Die”. The guys will spend six weeks there, recording, mixing and mastering their sophomore album, which title is yet to be unveiled. Stay tuned for updates!
KYLESA is currently rocking North America and getting raving feedback from the press and fans alike. Next month, it will be Europe’s turn with a 16 gig tour! See dates and venues below:
The fourth album of atmospheric doomsters AVA INFERI is entitled “Onyx” and has been scheduled for a February 14th, 2011 (one day later in the US) release. You can now download “The Living End”, a full song from the Portuguese / Norwegians’ new opus.
Season of Mist proudly announces the signing of OF LEGENDS, the metal side project from Luis Dubuc, of THE SECRET HANDSHAKE fame. After extensive tours and nice billboards entries, Dubuc announced the creation of OF LEGENDS a few months ago. Make no mistake though: OF LEGENDS is far from the Motown and Soul influences of Dubuc’s previous project. “Stranded” is nothing but pure metal, going towards the modern extreme and core scenes and delivering riffs that make your feet and neck move to the rupture. The kind of music somebody coming from a much groovier place could write – only with a ton of anger and hate on top!
Satan Claus’ Christmas competition on Season of Mist’s website is now over! Thanks to all contestants who participated and sent us their answers, but there could only be three winners a day…
As previously announced, SEPTICFLESH’s forthcoming album will hit the stores on April 18th (one day later in North America). The Greek demons’ new opus is entitled “The Great Mass” and will be available in several formats to be unveiled soon.
Industrial death metallers THE PROJECT HATE MCMXCIX’s new assault “Bleeding The New Apocalypse (Cum Victriciis In Manibus Armis)” will hit the stores on next February 14th (one day later in the US). You can now download “Summoning Majestic War“, a 12+ minute song from the album!
SEASON OF MIST is proud to welcome German Black metallers ENDSTILLE! The band’s seventh grenade, which title is yet to be unveiled, has been tentatively scheduled for a spring 2011 release.
Season of Mist would like to thank all the bands of the label’s roster and their fans for a killer year 2010. ‘Tis the Season to celebrate! Here is how:
Swiss Dark metallers S A M A E L have chosen “Lux Mundi” (which translates in English as “Light of the World”) as the title for their upcoming album which is due to be released in North America in spring 2011.
KLONE just issued a video clip for “Give up the Rest”, a song off the “Black Days” album, released earlier this year.