Photo by: Emanuela Giurano
Official press release:
Belgian black metal institution Enthroned are opening a new chapter in their storied career with their upcoming twelfth album, which now stands as their most ferocious and personal work.
Ashspawn was conceived over six years of ritual creation. Written in collaboration with occult author Gilles de Laval, these nine tracks chart a descent into spiritual death, only to emerge reborn through fire. Lead single “Raviasamin” is a chant and a curse, invoking both negation and transformation with frostbitten riffs and serpentine rhythms.
Watch the shocking, transformative video for “Raviasamin”:
“Raviasamin” functions as a gateway into the metaphysical architecture of Ashspawn. The album’s lead single embodies 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. The lyrics summons arcane forces – serpents, shattered silence, the backwards tree – that unsettle and reforge rather than merely entertain.
The video for “Raviasamin” extends these esoteric themes into the visual realm. Conceived as an intersection between reality and the digital universe, it was constructed entirely without generative tools. Every element — robes, carvings, statues — was first hand-drawn, sculpted, or designed, then scanned and reconstructed with the Unreal Engine. A 3D rendering of Belial, drawn from the artwork that Jose Gabriel Alegria Sambogal created for Ashspawn, as well as a hand-drawn qlippothic tree, are brought to life through computer animation. The result is a ritual passage through shadows where material craft and futuristic sorcery converge.
Ashspawn comes out December 5 on Season of Mist.
Pre-order & Pre-save here.
Available Formats:
- Digital Download
- CD Digipak
- 12″ Vinyl Gatefold – Black
- 12″ Coloured Vinyl Gatefold – Red
- 12″ Coloured Vinyl Gatefold – Gold w/ Black Splatters
Ashspawn track listing:
- “Crawling Temples”
- “Basilisk Triumphant”
- “Stillborn Litany”
- “Ashspawn”
- “Raviasamin”
- “Sightless”
- “Chysalid”
- “Ashen Advocacy”
- “Assertion”
