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MANTICORA shares release date and title of upcoming album

MANTICORA shares release date and title of upcoming album

Danish thrash/power concept masters, MANTICORA are announcing the release of their 9th full-length album, which will be named “To Live To Kill To Live”. The album, which is the 2nd part of their grand concept (a 334 page horror/thriller novel and a double concept album, written upon the novel) is set to be released on [...]

February 17, 2020 Elsa Marques News Comments Off on MANTICORA shares release date and title of upcoming album

Green Carnation reveal new album details and interview series

Green Carnation reveal new album details and interview series

Norwegian progressive metal act GREEN CARNATION are now revealing the album details for 'Leaves of Yesteryear'. The new record is the first release by the band in 14 years and will be out on May 8th, via Season of Mist. [...]

February 13, 2020 Elsa Marques News Comments Off on Green Carnation reveal new album details and interview series

Helfró release music video for “Afeitrun” and reveal debut album details

Helfró release music video for “Afeitrun” and reveal debut album details

Icelandic black metal band HELFRÓ are now premiering the first song of their self titled debut album, which will be released on Season of Mist Underground Activists on April 24. [...]

February 13, 2020 Elsa Marques News Comments Off on Helfró release music video for “Afeitrun” and reveal debut album details

Ocean Dark stream new single Die For Me

Ocean Dark stream new single Die For Me

Singer-songwriter Olli Helenius makes an outstanding comeback to his Hard Rock roots. Ocean Dark’s debut single “Die For Me” out this Friday. Olli Helenius, a man with a long career as a singer-songwriter and as a professional musician, makes a powerful comeback mixing rock music with a taste of metal. A decade ago he gained attention [...]

January 28, 2020 Elsa Marques News Comments Off on Ocean Dark stream new single Die For Me

Shockin’Head release Muse cover video “Hysteria”

Shockin’Head release Muse cover video “Hysteria”

Just recently, Italian heavy metallers SHOCKIN’ HEAD – feat. members of historical bands CHUPACABRAS, R.A.V.E.D, ESTREMO PONENTE – released a re-interpreted cover video for MUSE‘s ‘Hysteria’, in metal version. Now the video has gotten the premiering also on Blank TV, yet you can watch below. Comments the band’s guitarist Zac Vanders: “When you have been [...]

January 28, 2020 Elsa Marques News Comments Off on Shockin’Head release Muse cover video “Hysteria”

Crest Of Darkness premiere new Video “The God Of Flesh”

Crest Of Darkness premiere new Video “The God Of Flesh”

Norwegian Black Metal veterans CREST OF DARKNESS have revealed a new video by Stig Kenneth Limmesand for the title track from their ninth full-length album “The God Of Flesh”. The video can be seen below. CREST OF DARKNESS founder Ingar Amlien has this to say about the new video: Stig Kenneth Limmesand has done a [...]

January 27, 2020 Elsa Marques News Comments Off on Crest Of Darkness premiere new Video “The God Of Flesh”

Medico Peste released video for new song “God Knows Why”

Medico Peste released video for new song “God Knows Why”

Polish black metal formation MEDICO PESTE released the first new track from their upcoming album 'ב :The Black Bile'. The new record is set for worldwide release on March 20, 2020 via Season of Mist Underground Activists. [...]

January 14, 2020 Elsa Marques News Comments Off on Medico Peste released video for new song “God Knows Why”

EARTH ROT unleash first new track of upcoming album!

EARTH ROT unleash first new track of upcoming album!

Australian blackened death metal outfit EARTH ROT are now unveiling the very first track of their upcoming opus ‘Black Tides of Obscurity’, which will be released on March 06, 2020 via Season of Mist. The music video for the single ‘Dread Rebirth’ is now streaming via the official Season of Mist YouTube channel HERE and can be viewed below. [...]

January 8, 2020 Elsa Marques News Comments Off on EARTH ROT unleash first new track of upcoming album!

Abbath prepares for European tour and releases video message

Abbath prepares for European tour and releases video message

ABBATH are currently preparing for the European tour that will kick off on January 23 in Weimar, Germany. Alongside label mates 1349 and VLTIMAS and support act NUCLEAR, the package will hit the stages in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Czech Republic, Poland, Denmark and finally Sweden.  ABBATH has [...]

January 8, 2020 Elsa Marques News Comments Off on Abbath prepares for European tour and releases video message

Report: Sunn O))) + Caspar Brötzmann Bass Totem + Ilpo Väisänen @Kulttuuritalo, Helsinki

Report: Sunn O))) + Caspar Brötzmann Bass Totem + Ilpo Väisänen @Kulttuuritalo, Helsinki

The vanguards of heavy drone music, Sunn O))), unleashes a twirling maelstrom of sound, that is equally an endurance test, as it is an example of minimalism and maximalism, inviting the audience to an exercise in deep listening.   There is a classic scene in the 1984 movie “This is Spinal Tap” – a hilarious “rockumentary”about [...]

October 24, 2019 Elsa Marques Concerts, Reports Comments Off on Report: Sunn O))) + Caspar Brötzmann Bass Totem + Ilpo Väisänen @Kulttuuritalo, Helsinki

PIST shared single and details of their new album “Hailz”

PIST shared single and details of their new album “Hailz”

Pist will release a new album ‘Hailz’ on the 8th of November through APF Records (Mastiff, Battalions, BongCauldron, Desert Storm). Lancashire based quartet follow their recent Spring UK tour alongside Orange Goblin with 7 tracks that see them taking a step away from the stoner-doom label they were tagged with.  Vocalist David Rowlands explains, “Myself and John (guitarist) had loads of ideas [...]

September 16, 2019 Elsa Marques News Comments Off on PIST shared single and details of their new album “Hailz”

1349 announce ‘The Infernal Pathway’ and premiere new song

1349 announce ‘The Infernal Pathway’ and premiere new song

Norwegian black metal masters 1349 have announced the release date of their new album. The record, titled ‘The Infernal Pathway’ was recorded in Amper Tone studios and Studio Nyhagen with engineer Jarrett Pritchard earlier this year. ‘The Infernal Pathway’ will see a worldwide release via Season of Mist on October 18, 2019. Norwegian black metal [...]

August 2, 2019 Elsa Marques News Comments Off on 1349 announce ‘The Infernal Pathway’ and premiere new song

Esoteric reveal album title and cover for “A Pyrrhic Existence”

Esoteric reveal album title and cover for “A Pyrrhic Existence”

UK Doomsters ESOTERIC have unveiled the cover artwork and track list of their new album ‘A Pyrrhic Existence’. The record is set for worldwide release  on November 8, via Season of Mist. The long-awaited follow up to 2011’s ‘Paragon of Dissonance’ was recorded earlier this year at vocalist/guitarist Greg Chandler’s Priory Recording Studios in Birmingham. [...]

August 1, 2019 Elsa Marques News Comments Off on Esoteric reveal album title and cover for “A Pyrrhic Existence”

Heilung ‘s new album and confirmed live performances

Heilung ‘s new album and confirmed live performances

HEILUNG ‘s “Futha” album was released on 28th of June, 2019 and can be streamed via the official Season of Mist youtube channel. HEILUNG comments: “‘felleg er fuþ sin bylli Fuþorglbasm’ Ofnir was a masculine album about combat, anger and rage, Futha is the counterpart, the balance point, the feminine side. The great healing power of [...]

July 9, 2019 Elsa Marques News Comments Off on Heilung ‘s new album and confirmed live performances