September 16th, 2025
| Anciients | Cafe Colonel | Sacramento, CA | United States |
| Cryptopsy | Brooklyn Monarch | Brooklyn, NY | United States |
| Weedeater | The Starlet Lounge | Sacramento, CA | United States |
Posted on September 15, 2025
While styled with gothic flair, when hammered by the band's monumental death-doom, this pop gem glows in a ghoulish new light.
Posted on September 11, 2025
German progressive black metal ensemble Der Weg Einer Freiheit returns with Innern, their sixth studio album out September 12 via Season of Mist. A meditation on suffering, transformation, and resilience, Innern merges blistering intensity with atmospheric serenity, confronting cycles of collapse and renewal through songs like “Marter,” “Eos,” and “Forlorn”.
Posted on September 10, 2025
Thanks to a simple riff and instant chemistry shared between frontman Igor Sydorenko and his new rhythm section, Stoned Jesus stopped worrying about pleasing people and blasted out their heaviest song.
Posted on September 9, 2025
In 2021, the Swedish folk rock band was nominated for Folk Album of the Year by the Grammis. Now, four years later, the opening song from Förbundet is taking home a different award.
Posted on September 8, 2025
Italian ensemble Ponte del Diavolo release a live video of “Covenant,” filmed at Roadburn Festival 2025. Drawn from their debut Fire Blades From the Tomb, the performance amplifies the track’s dual-bass doom foundation, spectral instrumentation, and esoteric lyrics, closing an era that established the band among the most distinctive voices in Italian blackened doom.
Posted on September 4, 2025
Green Carnation return with A Dark Poem, Part I: The Shores of Melancholia, the first chapter of their long-awaited album trilogy. Blending gothic grandeur and progressive mastery, the Norwegians deliver six songs of grief, alienation, and rebirth, praised by PROG and Metal Hammer as a dark, cohesive journey into the soul.
Posted on September 4, 2025
Nordic folk artist Danheim unveils “Heimferd”, the lead single from his forthcoming album. Blending primal percussion with atmospheric restraint, the track channels ancestral memory and Viking-inspired soundscapes. With over one billion streams and music featured in Vikings, Danheim delivers a timeless journey into heritage and instinct.
Posted on September 3, 2025
IMPUREZA unveil the official video for “Covadonga,” a track from Alcázares blending brutal death metal and flamenco. Inspired by the Battle of Covadonga, the video features flamenco dancer Cécile “La Cécilia” Cappozzo and captures the band’s vision of beauty and brutality. IMPUREZA perform at Mennecy Metal Fest 2025 on September 6th.
Posted on September 1, 2025
DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT unveil a vocal playthrough of “Marter”, the opening track of their new album Innern. At over nine minutes, the song contrasts relentless black metal ferocity with fragile calm, while Nikita Kamprad’s visceral performance channels torment, exhaustion, and catharsis. Innern arrives September 12, 2025 via Season of Mist.
Posted on August 28, 2025
Sowulo’s NIHT embraces darkness as transformation. Written after personal loss, the album blends ancestral instruments, throat singing, and mythological themes into cinematic ritual soundscapes. Exploring the Night as subconscious, ego death, and renewal, NIHT honors grief, feminine wisdom, and lunar cycles. Out August 29 via Season of Mist.
Posted on August 28, 2025
Greek extreme-metal pioneers Nightfall return to the stage for Morbidfest 2025 EU Tour, following their acclaimed new album Children of Eve. Blending blackened ferocity with gothic atmosphere, the band brings their intense live energy to cities across Europe this autumn.
Posted on August 27, 2025
DANHEIM announces Heimferd, a mood-driven Nordic folk journey blending storm-driven percussion, haunting minimalism, and ancestral resonance. Out via Season of Mist on CD, vinyl, and digital, the album affirms his place as a defining voice in Viking-inspired music, following more than one billion global streams.
Originally founded in France and now represented worldwide, Season of Mist has gained the reputation for being an innovative, wide spectrum metal label, interested in exploring and developing new artists and bands. The metal label represents world class metal acts, but also leads the hordes towards new creative horizons and remains true to the underground via the sub label Season of Mist Underground Activists. Variety is the spice of life.
Season of Mist has three official offices based in Marseilles (FR), Philadelphia (US) and Vaassen (NL). Having multiple offices, the metal label is heavily represented in the world’s leading markets for metal and rock music; Europe and America. All releases are promoted with reviews, interviews, advertisements, samplers, giveaways, merchandise, touring and more.
Besides its activities as a record label, the Season of Mist online shop is the place to visit for vinyl, band merchandise and special box sets. The distribution branch of the company distributes releases from countless other labels. Combining all these activities, Season of Mist has become one of the biggest independent record companies in today’s metal community.
