Tag: Season of Mist

Playthrough: “Condemned to Vascular Famine” from Defeated Sanity!

As the band prepare to head out on a North American tour in November, Defeated Sanity give us the opportunity to witness drummer Lille Gruber smash his way through arguably the most punishing song on their critically acclaimed seventh album “Chronicles of Lunacy“. It’s one that the Brutal Technical Death Metal outfit like to call

NEWS: Enthroned find comfort in reincarnation?

More than three decades after they first crawled out of the Belgian underground Black Metal scene, the enduring legacy, uncompromising vision and ritualistic intensity of Enthroned remains. Six years after their last recorded confession, an album written in collaboration with occult author Gilles de Laval and dubbed “Ashspawn” is upon the horizon. Said to chart

NEWS: Hooded Menace save a prayer for Duran Duran?

While the lasting influence of Candlemass and Paradise Lost hasn’t vanished without a ghostly trace, Finnish Death Doom stalwarts Hooded Menace continue to break the mold and for their new album “Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration” have chosen to crush “Save a Prayer” by Duran Duran splattering it with the band’s signature blood-soaked dread. Their seventh album

Playthrough: “Amputationsdrang” from Defeated Sanity!

Co-headlining the third incarnation of Offal Fest at Manchester Rebellion from 25th to 27th July 2025 alongside Internal Bleeding and Skinless are German purveyors of Brutal Progressive Death Metal Defeated Sanity. A growing concern since 1994 this year they have the critically acclaimed “Chronicles of Lunacy” under their belts and as if in evidence have

NEWS: Cryptopsy fight until there’s nothing left!

Could it be a strange coincidence that Canadian Death Metal institution Cryptopsy have chosen the 20th June to release an album that coincides with their 20th anniversary? The five piece have shared a nightmarish music video for the brutally groovy lead single “Until There’s Nothing Left” with their ninth studio album “An Insatiable Violence” set

Playthrough: “Amputationsdrang” from Defeated Sanity!

Bassist Jacob Schmidt rips through the relentless opener “Amputationsdrang” from “Chronicles of Lunacy“, the seventh studio album from Defeated Sanity in this latest playthrough offering. It’s five strings of doom in pure Death Metal with the album co-produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by the legendary Colin Marston (Imperial Triumphant, Agalloch, Panopticon) at Thousand Cave Studios

Review: “Distant Planets” by Breeding Chaos

Born of the bond between two old friends who started composing music and mixing ideas using Guitar Pro as they rekindled a writing partnership that had already stood for three years, Breeding Chaos arrived on the French Death Metal scene in 2020. Comprising former Crimson Garden pairing Jérôme “Jé” Lhuillier (ex-Silencer) on lead guitars and Bruno

NEWS: Oceans Of Slumber find the heart of the matter…

Recorded at Houston’s Southwing Audio by videographer Dwayne Cathey, American Gothic legends Oceans Of Slumber have shared a music video for their cover of “Alone” by Heart in their own dark, cinematic image. It takes pride of place on their new album “Where Gods Fear to Speak” which is of course out now via Season

NEWS: Ponte Del Diavolo unveil remastered “Scintilla”!

Remixed and remastered by Marco Mastrobuono at Bloom Recording Studio, the first three EPs from celebrated Italian Doom infused Black Metal brigade Ponte Del Diavolo have been conjoined as a single entity simply titled “Tre – The EP Collection” for a 9th December release via Time To Kill Records. The first taste of that comes in the form