September 17th, 2025
| Anciients | The Cellar | Reno, NV | United States |
| Cryptopsy | Wally's | Hampton, NH | United States |
| Weedeater | Great American Music Hall | San Francisco, CA | United States |
Posted on September 17, 2025
From the ashes of Crown, Your Inland Empire release debut single “There Is No Me”. Fusing industrial darkwave, post-metal atmosphere, and dark pop intensity, the track embodies fractured identity and the “dark night of the soul”. Debut album Your Inland Empire arrives November 14 via Season of Mist.
Posted on September 16, 2025
Carach Angren release “The Resurrection of Kariba,” a cinematic single from The Cult of Kariba. Blending symphonic grandeur and blackened ferocity, the track recounts the cult’s ritual to resurrect Kariba, the witch of Schinveld legend, and the sinister forces it unleashes. The Cult of Kariba arrives October 17 via Season of Mist.
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.
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.
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