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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.
After soul searching through the Canadian wilderness for the past eight years, once again, Anciients have reached the summit of progressive metal. The heavy, heady and heartfelt Canucks won Metal / Hard Music Album of the Year at the 55th annual JUNO Awards for their latest album Beyond the Reach of the Sun. Spiritbox, Devin Townsend, Kittie and Striker were also nominated.
Metal maniacs have been losing their minds over Defeated Sanity. Last year, brutal death metal’s most relentless innovators returned to the raw brutality of their early classics. In the process, the band’s latest album has taken their moribund legacy to even greater extremes. Not only did Chronicles of Lunacy land on notable year-end lists from across the world of metal, rock and pop. It also broke onto the Billboard charts.
For more than 30 years, Nightfall have stood as a shining pillar for Greek metal. Like darkness after sunset, the deadly Athenians rose through the underground alongside their current and former label mates Rotting Christ and Septicflesh. The band’s monumental eleventh album is solidified by the most electrifying hooks and thunderous production in their pantheon-level discography. But while the latest single from Children of Eve scrapes across the sky with a stadium-shaking chorus, “The Cannibal” digs deeper into the powerful message that has always served as Nightfall’s rallying cry.”Our new single speaks to an insatiable fear that’s been fueled by eons of catechism”, says Nightfall’s half-masked leader Efthimis Karadimas. “I hate the cannibal that lurks inside us, eating us alive from within”.