With “Ashspawn,” ENTHRONED release the second chapter of their new album: a violent statement of transformation through fire. Condensed into four and a half minutes of controlled chaos, the song embodies the record’s central doctrine: spiritual destruction as the catalyst for transcendence.
Driven by Menthor’s blinding percussion and Kaos’s serpentine riffing, “Ashspawn” oscillates between feral speed and precise rhythmic control. The production’s overwhelming density evokes ritual combat—each dissonant chord and blast beat colliding as a deliberate act of annihilation and rebirth. Nornagest’s vocals, both incantation and condemnation, channel the lyrical core of the piece: “I am God’s scourge of defeat, the s*men in His eye.” What begins as a hymn of ruin resolves into declaration: Et Verbum Caro Factum Est—“And the Word became Flesh.”
Ashspawn is out December 5th via Season of Mist.
With the release of their twelfth full-length Ashspawn, ENTHRONED mark a new chapter in their three-decade reign of ritualistic black metal. Conceived across six years of deliberate creation, the album emerges as both an autopsy and a resurrection: a descent into spiritual death followed by the sublimation of rebirth. Written in close collaboration with occult author Gilles de Laval, Ashspawn channels arcane praxis, metaphysical calculus, and esoteric mapping into a work that is as much ritual invocation as it is music. It is the culmination of ENTHRONED’s uncompromising vision: a weapon of transformation forged in fire and darkness.
Ashspawn track listing:
1. Crawling Temples (5:35)
2. Basilisk Triumphant (5:53)
3. Stillborn Litany (6:48)
4. Ashspawn (4:40)
5. Raviasamin (4:26)
6. Sightless (3:39)
7. Chysalid (4:32)
8. Ashen Advocacy (7:58)
9. Assertion (6:44)
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