Northern Italy's MISCREANCE have announced their second album, Reminiscence, set for release on August 28, 2026 via Season of Mist. The news arrives alongside a chilling music video for the album's lead single, "Scalp Ceremony."
Steeped in old-school spirit — high-top sneakers, sleeveless band tees and all — MISCREANCE made their full-length debut on Season of Mist in 2022, quickly drawing comparisons to extreme metal greats like DEATH, SADUS and VOIVOD. But the band insist Reminiscence is more than a nostalgia trip. While they still pound and shred at a blood-thirsty pace, "Scalp Ceremony" pushes into dark, disorienting new territory, its sharp turns warping the genre's familiar signposts until they are nearly unrecognizable.
"Through a collective hallucination, a voyage through time led us to discover a moment in human history that was lost," the band say of the record's far-out concept. "This album is a testimony of what we have seen, heard, perceived and imagined, told through our own perspective on old-school, thrashy, technical death metal."
Guitarist Andrea Granauro is quick to reassure longtime fans: "We still play old-school tech-thrash." Faithful to the legacies of ATHEIST and DARK ANGEL, the band nonetheless resist simply recalling metal's glory days. The handheld, cultish video — created by Tulpa Studio in Ferrara, Italy — will feel instantly familiar to underground tape collectors, right down to its grisly climax. "No one ever even sees it coming," drummer Andrea Feltrin growls with murderous delight, the track's final sacrifice driven home by a flurry of bongos.
Though recorded in Italy, Reminiscence is built around an elaborate science-fiction narrative. "What we've created is a 'lost album,' sent from an unknown civilization that's both futuristic and extremely primitive," explains bassist Jean-Claude Rossignol. "Through psychic powers and capabilities that transcend earthly comprehension, these primordial extraterrestrials have achieved total neural unity. Yet innate wickedness still lurks inside of them, harboring the need for preys, scalps and lust."
Guitarist Tommaso Cappelletti adds that the conceptual leap was deliberate: "We are all very happy with how our first album turned out, but we wanted to go bigger by tying Reminiscence to a specific concept." The album's cover — a modern interpretation of the kind of cave painting that was all the rage in the Stone Age — was created by Iranian artist Mona Shiraz.
Reminiscence will be available on CD digipack and multiple 12" vinyl variants.
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