After a smoking hot tour with their labelmates and fellow North Carolinians Weedeater, Bask are now ready to turn over a different kind of leaf. The Asheville natives will release their fourth album later this year. But first, the band are looking back at one of their influences.
Italian avant-metal collective syk release a compelling live video for “Where I Am Going There Is No Light“, the second track from their latest album ‘eartHFlesh’, available now via Season of Mist.
Like a smoke signal, over the past decade, Mawiza have risen as a guiding force for indigenous metal. By incorporating native instruments, shamanic chanting and tribal rhythms into their contemporary influences, the band represent both the ancestral and modern sides of Mapuche culture. Their fresh yet timeless take on groove metal has won them a Chilean Grammy along with the respect of scene elders like Mercyful Fate, Mastodon, Slipknot and Joe Duplantier from Gojira, who’s featured on their upcoming new album.
Nightfall have stood alongside Rotting Christ and Septicflesh as the pillars of Greek metal since the early ’90s. But now, Efthimis Karadimas and his Athenian band of rebels have once again returned from the shadows to unite blackened souls everywhere with Children of Eve, the darkest and most epic creation in their pantheon-level discography.
Ever since they formed in the early ’90s, Nightfall have stood alongside Rotting Christ and Septicflesh as the pioneering trinity of Greek metal. Fearsome frontman Efthimis Karadimas and his band of Athenian rebels are still out for revenge on their new album, but Children of Eve is backed by the biggest hooks in their pantheon-level discography.
Season of Mist proudly announces the return of American blackened death metal pioneers PESSIMIST to European stages this December. Following their recent East Coast tour and a blistering performance alongside Venom Inc. in San Diego, PESSIMIST is set to co-headline a European tour with death metal stalwarts Sinister and Graceless.
Season of Mist is proud to announce that brutal death metal pioneers DEFEATED SANITY will embark on their 2025 European Tour this summer, bringing their critically acclaimed album Chronicles of Lunacy to stages across the continent!
After almost a decade of soul searching through the Canadian wilderness, once again, Anciients have reached the summit of progressive metal. The heavy, heady and heartfelt Canucks just won their second Canadian Grammy for Metal/Hard Music Album of the Year. Now, sage frontman Kenny Cook, steadily pummeling drummer Mike Hannay and new axemen Brock MacInnes and Rory O’Brien are finally returning to the States to bask in the prog metal glory of Beyond the Reach of the Sun.
Season of Mist is proud to present “Förnyelse i Tre Akter,” the stunning new single from Finnish symphonic black metal architects …and Oceans. The track is the third and final single before the release of their highly anticipated album The Regeneration Itinerary, set to arrive on May 23.
Whether it was a Dog Shaped Man, the Midnight Animal or a hospital run by werewolves, not even the most nightmarish creatures could tame The Lion’s Daughter. What began in the mid-2010s as a horror-stricken, blackened and sludgy trio rabidly evolved into a frightening, futuristic, synth-metal foursome.
Since rising up from Athens’ underground in 1991, Nightfall have stood as pillars for Greek metal alongside current and former Season of Mist label mates Rotting Christ and Septicflesh.
A person spends all day building a machine, only for it to torture them at night. As if this thought wasn’t malicious enough, they enjoy it. In fact, they enjoy being tortured so much that, come morning, they wake up rejuvenated, eager to tweak their creation until it runs perfectly in their mind.
While still ascending on the metal scene, Mawiza are empowered by their indigenous roots.
While pushing the boundaries of modern metal, Mawiza are deeply connected to their native roots.
Season of Mist is proud to welcome Dopelord!
No matter what skeletal form they assume, Wrath of Logarius aren’t bound by black metal’s strict traditions. The band’s debut album crowns them kings of a new realm for the underground: formless black metal.