While already enshrined amongst the magazine’s unholy Hall of Fame, in the 30+ years since their ungentle exhumation from the Canadian underground, Cryptopsy had never graced the cover of Decibel. But now, the band’s new album An Insatiable Violence has turned the worm in their favor.
Just like the trees they’re protecting, Savage Lands have roots that run deep. Megadeth drummer Dirk Verbeuren and guitarist-turned-activist Sylvain Demercastel first joined forces in France during the late ’90s before reuniting two decades later to form the world’s first metal non-profit for biodiversity. Since 2022, their organization has protected more than 100 acres of endangered forest with help from environmentalists and metalheads.
After 30 years, Cryptopsy are no strangers to the spotlight. Since their ungentle exhumation from the Canadian underground in 1993, the Montreal natives have worn the horned crown as the most vile band in death metal. Their upcoming ninth album and first since winning a JUNO Award embodies the many malicious mutations that have defined their Hall of Fame discography. But while infectious, the latest single from An Insatiable Violence brutally illustrates that society’s viral takeover isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Next month, Virvum are touring Canada for the very first time. While initially only scheduled to blaze through Toronto, the band have added two more dates in response to rising fan anticipation across Ontario. The band’s melodic and blackened countrymen Stortregn will also join them on these two new dates in Sault St Marie and Thunder Bay.
After giving fans in Europe an early taste of their upcoming new album, today, Cryptopsy are announcing the band’s first U.S. tour in support of An Insatiable Violence. This fall, they will join fellow brutal technical death metal pharaohs NILE on a 25-date tour of the East Coast, Midwest and Pacific Northwest. Joining them on this run are The Last Ten Seconds of Life and Cognitive.
The shamanic techno vikings of EIHWAR are set to join forces with Mongolian rock giants The HU this June for a string of electrifying dates across Germany and France. Known for conjuring wild ritual chaos and myth-fueled dancefloor eruptions, the clan will bring their Viking War Trance rites to new battlefields as main support on The HU’s European tour.
To the broad world of metal, Mawiza are still an ascendant new force, but these modern day Mapuche warriors have always stood fiercely by their indegenous roots. The band’s upcoming third album and first since winning a Chilean Grammy calls for us to restore our balance with nature. While the latest single from ÜL warns that the apocalypse is fast approaching, “Mamüll Reke” proudly demonstrates Mawiza’s staying power by relying on all they’ve learned from their ancestral land.
Season of Mist is proud to announce the release of The Regeneration Itinerary, the highly anticipated new album from Finnish symphonic black metal visionaries …AND OCEANS. Out this Friday, May 23, the album sees the band refine their sound into a cinematic and cerebral journey of contrasts—where philosophy meets fire, chaos dissolves into form, and transformation unfolds track by track.
Though never intended to leave the studio, Thy Catafalque has grown into a soaring – and roaring – live act. Tamás Kátai and his ever-expanding cast of collaborators are performing at Hellfest, Rockstadt Extreme, Alcatraz and other European festivals this summer before embarking on their first-ever tour of Latin America.
While they’re just beginning to kindle the fires for their first offering since signing with Season of Mist, Oak, Ash & Thorn continue to fan the flames from their latest album. Following a mead-crushing performance at Decibel Metal & Beer Fest Denver and hammer-thrusting support dates with inspirations Týr, now, freshly armed as a five-piece, the blackened pagan power metal band are announcing their next tour.
Fresh off their ungentle exhumation from the Canadian underground, Cryptopsy officially came writhing and screaming into the world of extreme metal with Blasphemy Made Flesh.
Season of Mist is pleased to welcome Unverkalt to its roster. Originally founded in Athens and now based in Berlin, the avant-garde post-metal band has forged a name for themselves through emotionally immersive compositions, cinematic textures, and a fearless commitment to sonic experimentation.
Tokyo’s death metal stalwarts, DEFILED, are set to embark on their “Smoke and Mirrors” Tour 2025 this May, delivering their signature blend of old-school brutality and technical prowess to fans across South Korea and Japan. This tour supports their latest album, Horror Beyond Horror, released through Season of Mist.
These JUNO Award winners have worn the horned crown as the most vile band in death metal since the mid-’90s. But with the latest single off their upcoming ninth album, Cryptopsy are making blasphemy sound fresh. “Malicious Needs” feeds into a human urge that is so revolting, so shameful, that it couldn’t be shown on YouTube. Still, even the censored version of the new video from An Insatiable Violence uncovers the evil obsessions that lie beneath our digital fantasies.