[Cover photo credit to Kyle Barber]

Season of Mist has announced the signing of Hard Rock band The Virgos. The band was formed when, following a decade of work in Hardcore and Metal as a member of Bad Seed, Harm’s Way and Nails, vocalist and guitarist, Andy Saba banded together with kindred spirits Danni Crockett and Eli Gerrity. The power trio have “declared a new age for true heavy metal.”

Saba says:

We decided it was time to let the Apocalyptically loud horses of metal run free again, and shine a light on every color of the Dark Rainbow of Metal.

This year, The Virgos released their third full-length album, Lord Have Mercy, which combines Heavy Metal styles.

Saba says about the album:

The theme of Lord Have Mercy is that we missed out on the future. Utopia isn’t happening. We’re going backwards now. Superstition, devilry, war, plagues, revolution…it’s the Dark Ages again. So let’s get with the times. Medieval times call for Medieval responses. If you want to understand the headspace I was in while writing this album, watch Fulci’s 1983 movie Conquest several dozen times. It’s all in there. 

The Virgos 2025 + 2026 U.S. Tour Dates 
with Superheaven and White Reaper

December 11 – Baltimore, Maryland @ Baltimore Soundstage [TICKETS]
December 12 – Rutherford, New Jersey @ Black Box [TICKETS]
December 13 – Amityville, New York @ Amityville Music Hall [TICKETS]
December 27 – Kingston, PA @ Doug’s Boardroom [TICKETS]*
January 9 – Washington, D.C. @  Songbyrd [TICKETS]
*with Planning For Burial, If Kansas Had Trees

More dates for 2026 to be announced soon.