Season of Mist

Season of Mist
Founded	1996
Founder	Michael S. Berberian
Distributor(s)	EMI Music (USA)
Genre	Various brands of metal
Country of origin	France – United States
Location	Marseille – France
Official Website	www.season-of-mist.com

Season of Mist is a record label and record distributor with subsidiaries in France and the United States. The record label was founded in 1996 by Michael S. Berberian in Marseille, France. From the start releasing black metal, pagan metal and death metal records, the label moved on to releasing albums of avant-garde metal, gothic metal and punk bands as well. Season of Mist is widely respected as one of the top labels in the extreme metal scene. The label has two offices, one in Marseille, France and one in Philadelphia, U.S..

Season of Mist has a partnership with EMI Music who distribute the label's releases in North America.^[1][2]

Contents 1 Music 2 History 3 Roster 4 North American roster 5 Distributed labels 6 References 7 External links

Music

From the beginning, Season of Mist focused on releasing more extreme metal metal records by stylistically diverse bands like Oxiplegatz, Bethzaida and Kampfar. With the signing of Norwegian legends Mayhem in 1999 the label's profile clearly shifted towards black metal and attracted internationally renowned artists like Carpathian Forest, Rotting Christ, Arcturus and Solefald, with the latter two representing a marked progressive and avant-garde side to Season of Mist.

While staying close to its black metal roots with the creation of the Season of Mist Underground Activists division in 2007, the label widened its musical range and added to its black, death, doom (Saint Vitus) and thrash metal roster bands playing progressive death metal (Morbid Angel, Cynic, Atheist, Gnostic, Gonin-ish), sludge (Kylesa, Outlaw Order), industrial metal (Genitorturers, The CNK, Punish Yourself), hard rock (Ace Frehley), gothic rock (Christian Death), mathcore (The Dillinger Escape Plan, Psykup), garage rock (1969 Was Fine), modern metal (Dagoba, Eths, Trepalium, Black Comedy) and metalcore (Eyeless, The Arrs).

History

Season of Mist was formed in 1996, while founder Michael S. Berberian was completing his scholarships in "International Economics Sciences" initially, according to Berberian, as a way around the compulsory national military service in France. Since his graduation the label has become a full time job for Michael and achieved a steady growth with Season of Mist now employing 20 members of staff. In the year 2002 Season of Mist also started out as a distributor for the French territory, which meanwhile includes other metal labels like Metal Blade Records, Spinefarm Records or Napalm Records on their roster.

Season of Mist's name originates from "A Midsummer Night's Dream", the play by William Shakespeare, and the Sandman comic book "Season of Mists". You can also read that phrase in the first line of John Keats' "To Autumn" ode.

Roster

...And Oceans – Finnish symphonic black metal 1969 Was Fine – French garage rock A Life Once Lost – American groove metal Abaddon Incarnate – Irish brutal death metal Aborym – Italian black metal / industrial music Ace Frehley – American hard rock Aghora – American progressive metal Agressor – French death metal Anaal Nathrakh – British black metal Anata – Swedish technical death metal Ancient Rites – Belgian black metal Anorexia Nervosa – French symphonic black metal Arcturus – Norwegian avant-garde metal Arkan – French middle-eastern death metal Asrai – Dutch gothic metal Atheist – American progressive death metal Atrox – Norwegian experimental metal Ava Inferi – Portuguese gothic doom metal Benighted – French death metal Bestial Mockery – Swedish black metal Bethzaida – Norwegian dark metal Black Comedy – Norwegian cyber metal Black Dawn – Finnish black metal Bloodthorn – Norwegian atmospheric black metal Blöod Düster – Australian grindcore Brutal Truth – American grindcore Cadaveria – Italian gothic/doom black metal Cantata Sangui – Finnish gothic metal Carnival in Coal – French experimental metal Carpathian Forest – Norwegian black metal Chaostar - Greek operatic metal Christian Death – American gothic rock

Confessor – American doom metal Corpus – French Industrial metal Council Of The Fallen – American progressive death metal Cultus Sanguine – Italian gothic metal Cynic – American progressive metal Dagoba – French modern death metal Darkside – Austrian death metal Dawn of Relic – Finnish black metal Dead Shape Figure – Finnish thrash metal Defiled – Japanese death metal Deströyer 666 – Australian blackened thrash metal Diabolic – American death metal Drudkh – Ukrainian black metal Doctor Midnight & The Mercy Cult Norwegian heavy metal E-Force – Canadian thrash metal Endstille - German black metal Engel – Swedish modern metal Esoteric – British extreme doom metal Eternal Gray - Israeli death metal Eths – French modern metal Eyeless – French metalcore Fair to Midland - American progressive metal Fleshgrind – American death metal Furia – French death metal Furious Trauma – Danish thrash and roll Geasa – Irish pagan black metal Genitorturers – American industrial metal Ghost Brigade – Finnish doom metal Gnostic – American progressive death metal Gonin-Ish – Japanese progressive death metal Gorelord – Norwegian gore metal Gorgoroth – Norwegian black metal Gorguts – Canadian death metal Green Carnation – Norwegian progressive metal

Griffin – Norwegian thrash metal HDK – Dutch thrash metal Hegemon – French black metal Hirax - American thrash metal Imperium Dekadenz – German black metal Jarboe – American gothic metal Jungle Rot – American death metal Kampfar – Norwegian viking metal Karelia – industrial/gothic metal Kells - symphonic nu metal Kill The Thrill – French industrial metal Klone – French modern metal Kylesa - American sludge metal Leng Tch'e - Belgian grindcore Luna Field – German symphonic black metal Macabre – American murder metal Mar de Grises – Chilean Doom Metal Mayhem – Norwegian black metal Meridian – Swiss symphonic black metal Mezzerschmitt – Norwegian industrial black metal Morbid Angel – American death metal Morgul – Norwegian black metal My Insanity – German gothic metal Nader Sadek - American blackened death metal Naer Mataron – Greek black metal Nattefrost – Norwegian black metal Necrophagia – American death metal Nocturnus – American technical death metal Nothnegal – Maldivian thrash metal progressive metal death metal Order of the Ebon Hand – Greek black metal Otargos – French black metal Outlaw Order – American sludge metal Oxiplegatz – Swedish industrial metal Pentagram – American doom metal Penumbra – French gothic metal Pest – Swedish black metal Polterchrist – American blackened thrash metal

Psykup – French mathcore Punish Yourself – French industrial metal Red Harvest – Norwegian industrial metal Rimfrost – Swedish black metal Rotting Christ – Greek gothic/melodic black metal Saint Vitus – American doom metal Salem – Israeli Oriental metal Septicflesh – Greek death metal gothic metal Seth – French black metal Severe Torture - Dutch death metal Silent Stream of Godless Elegy - Czech folk metal Skitliv – Norwegian black metal Solefald – Norwegian avant-garde metal Soul Demise – German death metal Sturmgeist – Norwegian experimental black/thrash metal Syrinx – French heavy metal Tactile Gemma – Norwegian heavenly voices The Arrs – French metalcore The Bleeding Light – Bulgarain dark industrial metal The CNK – French industrial metal The Crest – Norwegian gothic metal The Dillinger Escape Plan – American mathcore The Old Dead Tree – French extreme gothic metal The Project Hate MCMXCIX – Swedish death metal The Sign of the Southern Cross – American heavy thrash metal Thy Catafalque - Hungarian avant-garde metal Trepalium – French groovy death metal Tsjuder – Norwegian black metal Twelfth Gate – American heavy thrash metal Urgehal – Norwegian black metal Viking Crown – American black metal Virus – Norwegian black metal Watain – Swedish Black metal Winds of Sirius – French gothic metal Wurdulak – Norwegian black metal Yattering – Polish technical death metal

North American roster

Bands signed on a license deal with Season of Mist for exclusive release in North America.

• Astarte – Greek black metal
• Beherit – Finnish black metal
• Black Funeral – American black metal
• Deathspell Omega – French black metal
• Dying Fetus – American death metal
• Eluveitie – Swiss folk metal
• Enslaved – Norwegian progressive black metal
• Finntroll – Finnish folk black metal
• Forgotten Tomb – Italian black metal
• Legion Of The Damned – Dutch thrash metal
• Moonsorrow – Finnish folk black metal
• Reverend Bizarre – Finnish doom metal
• Sadist – Italian technical death metal
• Shape Of Despair – Finnish funeral doom metal
• Shining – Swedish black metal
• Sopor Aeternus – German darkwave
• The Gathering – Dutch atmospheric rock
• To Separate The Flesh From The Bones – Finnish grindcore
• Trinacria – Norwegian doom black metal
• Within Temptation – Dutch gothic metal

Distributed labels

Fellow record companies distributed in France by Season of Mist.

Accession Ad Noiseam Agonia Records Agua Recordings Alfa Matrix Ant-Zen Anticulture Ark Records Audioglobe Aura Mystique Avantgarde Music Basement Apes Records Black Flames Black Lotus Records Black Mark Productions Black Rain / Noitekk Bones Brigade Records Candlelight / PlasticHead Cargo Records Code 666 Cold Meat Industries Cold Spring

Cruz del Sur Cyclic Law Cyclone Empire D8k Prod Danse Macabre Deadrock Industry / Customcore Deaf & Dumb Music Debemur Morti Demolition Records dependent Displeased Records Divine Comedy Drakkar Entertainment Dream Catcher Favored Nations Firebox Records GMR Music Great Dane Records GSR Records Hall of Sermon I For Us I Hate Records

La Chambre Froide Lifeforce Records M-Tronic Magic Circle Music Massacre Records Masterpiece Records Metal Blade / Silverdust Metal Mind Productions Metropolis Records Morbid Records Moribund Records Music Avenue Napalm Records Norma Evangelium Diaboli Northern Silence Nova Media / Alice In... / Bloodline / Minuswelt / Dancing Ferret / Pandaimonium Optical Sound Out of Line Painkiller Records People Like You Prikosnovénie

Prophecy Productions Psychonaut Records Pulverised Records Rage of Achilles Repo Records Scarlet Records Sepulchral Production Several Bleeds / Rupture Music Sound Pollution Spinefarm Suburban Records Supernal Music Target Records Tatra Productions Tesco Organisation The End Records Trendkill Records Twilight Vertrieb Underclass Virusworx Von Jakhelln

References

• Season-of-mist.com

External links

• Official website
• MySpace
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• YouTube
• Vimeo