THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN have teamed up with Zippo’s new music portal, ZippoEncore.com, for a giveaway of their track “Chinese Whispers” from new album “Option Paralysis”. The band recently finished a North American headlining tour and is now heading to Australia, Europe and the UK before going back to the US to play the main stage of Warped Tour all summer long.
As previously announced, WATAIN’s song “Reaping Death”, off the “Lawless Darkness” album, was released in April as a 7″ picture disc and a CD single. The former was unleashed last week on Walpurgisnacht and is limited to 1300 copies worldwide, and the latter was exclusively distributed in Sweden and was certified gold for sales in excess of 10.000 copies. So it’s time for the whole world to get their hands on the song!
While between extensive tours of Europe, KYLESA entered the studio earlier this week to commence the recording of their fifth full-length release, and debut for Season of Mist. The sessions will take place over the month of June at the legendary Jam Room in Columbia, South Carolina, with Phillip Cope at the helm as producer. The band is very excited about the new material and they have been working tirelessly on the writing since January of this year.
As the bills for the 2010 summer festivals are now all confirmed, we are happy and proud to let you know that many Season of Mist bands will perform at several of those. Here’s an overview of your summer schedule!
As you can see, our newsletter has been re-designed! This change matches the new look of Season of Mist’s official website www.season-of-mist.com ,which has just been re-designed, re-vamped and largely enhanced. We hope you like it!
In next autumn, Swedish black kings WATAIN will hit the road for over a month, to spread their lawless darkness over Europe! The 28-gig tour will take the band through 14 different countries and is scheduled as follows:
After 17 years, the wait is finally over… Atheist are set to enter LedBelly recording studios in Atlanta, GA on July 5th to lay the tracks down on their long-awaited, yet untitled, fourth studio album! Engineering the recording session will be Matt Washburn. Additionally, the band have secured the services of one of metal’s most significant talents of the past decade, Jason Suecof (TRIVIUM, CHIMAIRA, DEVILDRIVER and many others), to handle the mixing of what promises to be a modern classic from the pioneers of technical metal.
As previously announced, SEVERE TORTURE’s “Slaughtered” album will be released on June 28th. You can now download a full song from the album for free. Check out “Grave Condition” here!
After the success of last year’s “Fuck God – Disease Process” album, Season of Mist is proud to continue their collaboration with French Black Metal act OTARGOS. The band’s fourth plague is entitled “No God, No Satan” and will hit the stores on next August 30th on the Underground Activists division.
In an official statement to American fans before the band’s headlining appearance at this year’s Maryland Deathfest, WATAIN frontman E. warns of the carnage to come: “We are leaving for the US in a few hours from now, armed to the teeth and ready to murder. The Watain performance at Maryland Deathfest shall be a triumphant holocaust of all that is holy, and a massive celebration of the gods of Lawless Darkness! Be prepared…”
CYNIC’s EP “Re-Traced”, made of four re-interpretations of songs from 2008’s “Traced in Air” and a previously unreleased track, hit the stores last May 18th.
As announced last month, MAR DE GRISES’ next album will be released on Season of Mist. We can now reveal that the Chilean doomsters’ third monolith will be entitled “Streams Inwards”, and it is slated for an August 30th release.
“Estrangement”, the last dark gem from DRUDKH’s back catalogue, will be reissued on June 28th. Here is the brand new exclusive artwork designed for the carefully restored re-release of the Ukrainian pagan black heroes’ sixth album.
KLONE’s new album “Black Days” is now out in the whole Europe and in Australia! To help you wait until the band’s next tour in September, you can get a foretaste of the new songs performed in concert by checking a live version of “The Spell Is Cast”, a number from “Black Days”.
To back up the release of the “Re-Traced” EP due next May 17th, US prog geniuses CYNIC will embark on a European tour during the spring. Here is the schedule:
As previously announced, SEVERE TORTURE’s “Slaughtered” album will be released on June 28th. Here is the track list of the Dutch executioners’ fifth mischief:
The next batch of DRUDKH reissues will hit the stores on next May 24th. 2006’s “Blood in our Wells” and “Songs of Grief and Solitude” will thus be re-released in classy Digipaks with brand new artworks and remastered sound. Here are the cover artworks:
Black kings WATAIN’s single CD “Reaping Death”, exclusively distributed in Sweden via Sweden Rock Magazine, got certified gold by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry on April 21st! Season of Mist congratulate the band and the magazine for having sold 10000 discs in two weeks.
Belgian razorgrind act LENG TCH’E’s fifth album will be available on May 24th. You can now download a full song from “Hypomanic”, entitled “Wirehead Imbeciles”.
As previously announced, KLONE’s new album “Black Days” includes a bonus DVD, recorded live in February 2008 at Le Confort Moderne in Poitiers, France. Here is the tracklisting of the full show featured on that DVD: