Avslut have signed to Season of Mist for their next album. Nothing else has been said about it.
The move is from Osmose Productions, where the band have been since they started putting records out, and the two labels are not the same kind of operation. Osmose is a black metal specialist with forty years of catalogue and a roster built on taste. Season of Mist is a label with distribution, publicity and a release schedule that runs across half a dozen genres, which for a band of this size is the difference between a record that reaches the people who already look for black metal and one that reaches further.
Avslut formed in Stockholm in 2016 and have never used their real names: the line-up is listed as initials. What they play is black metal with no softening and no orchestra, which is also what Season of Mist have been short of lately.
No title, no date, no first song. The announcement is the deal itself, which is usually a sign that the record is far enough along to be worth announcing and not far enough to show.