09/25/2025 07:13
Enthroned
Enthroned return with 'Ashspawn' album in December
Belgian black metal institution Enthroned open a new chapter with the release of their latest single, 'Raviasamin', taken from the upcoming album 'Ashspawn'. Conceived across six years of ritual creation, the record emerges as both autopsy and resurrection: a descent into spiritual death followed by sublimation into rebirth.
Cover art by Jose Gabriel Alegría Sabogal.
Track listing:
1. Crawling Temples (05:35)
2. Basilisk Triumphant (05:53)
3. Stillborn Litany (06:48)
4. Ashspawn (04:40)
5. Raviasamin (04:26)
6. Sightless (03:39)
7. Chysalid (04:32)
8. Ashen Advocacy (07:58)
9. Assertion (06:44) [bonus on CD]
Emerging from the Belgian underground in 1993, Enthroned have stood as one of black metal's enduring forces, their legacy defined by uncompromising vision and ritualistic intensity. Over three decades, the band has refined their craft into an artform of esoteric violence and transcendence.
Their new opus 'Ashspawn' embodies six years of ritual creation and total artistic unity. Written in collaboration with occult author Gilles de Laval, the album charts a descent into spiritual death and a transformative rebirth, framed by a lyrical architecture of demonology, ritual praxis, and metaphysical calculus. Musically, it is Enthroned's most ferocious and personal work to date: a relentless fusion of blast beats, oppressive mid-tempos, and solos oscillating between chaos and virtuosity. Tracks such as 'Raviasamin', 'Ashspawn', and 'Ashen Advocacy' channel this doctrine into ritual soundscapes that convulse between violent catharsis and crushing introspection.
Every note and silence is deliberate; a weapon forged for transformation rather than entertainment. 'Ashspawn' is not an echo of past glories, but a culmination of Enthroned's essence: dark, authentic, and absolute.
'Ashspawn' will be released via Season Of Mist on December 5th, 2025. The album will be released on digipak CD, 12" vinyl (black, limited to 350; red, limited to 300; gol with black splatter, limited to 100).
'Raviasamin' functions as a gateway into this metaphysical architecture. At once chant and curse, the track traverses frostbitten riffing, serpentine invocations, and violent rhythmic surges. Its four and a half minutes embody Enthroned's doctrine: blinding velocity counterbalanced by sculpted mid-tempo marches, guitars oscillating between jagged dissonance and choir-like resonance, and drums fracturing time with both blast-driven intensity and processional weight.
Lyrically, 'Raviasamin' summons arcane forces: serpents, shattered silence, the "backwards tree". These images tie directly into 'Ashspawn's conceptual core of ritual negation and transformation, framing the song as a linguistic and sonic weapon designed to unsettle and reforge rather than merely entertain.
The accompanying video extends these esoteric themes into the visual realm. Conceived as an intersection between reality and digital unreality, the film was constructed entirely without generative tools. Every element—robes, carvings, statues—was first hand-drawn, sculpted, or designed, then scanned and meticulously reconstructed within Unreal Engine. Central figures include a 3D rendering of Belial, drawn from Jose Gabriel Alegria Sambogal's album artwork, and a hand-drawn qlippothic tree, brought to life through digital animation. The result is a visual ritual: a passage through shadows where material craft and digital sorcery converge.
More than three decades after their inception, Enthroned remain steadfast in their purpose: not to replicate the past, but to realign with the forces that birthed them. 'Ashspawn' is the testimony of this alignment, a ritual weapon that rejects nostalgia and compromise. It is a resurrection of spirit through suffering, a reaffirmation of Enthroned's place among black metal's most visionary entities.
(source: Season Of Mist / Enthroned)