Enthroned | Ashspawn | Season Of Mist

Release Date: 5 December 2025

Format: Digital, CD, LP

Genre: Black Metal

Country: Belgium

Formed in 1993 in Namur, Belgium, Enthroned have long stood as one of the most unrelenting names in European black metal. From the fiery chaos of their debut “Prophecies Of Pagan Fire” to the ritual darkness of “Cold Black Suns”, they’ve carved a career built on fury, discipline, and esoteric vision. Through death, upheaval, and transformation, the band’s founder Nornagest has kept Enthroned alive as a conduit for something cold, ancient, and merciless.

With “Ashspawn,” their twelfth studio album, Enthroned returns after six years of silence to deliver an experience that sounds like it was carved in stone and then struck by lightning. The music moves with precision and menace, guided by Menthor’s blistering percussion and T. Kaos’s relentless guitar work. Every riff is sharpened for impact, while Nornagest’s voice tears through the production like a sermon shouted in a collapsing temple.

There’s an intensity here that borders on ritual possession. The sound is suffocating, yet strangely calculated. Songs like “Raviasamin” and “Ashen Advocacy” shift from high-speed violence to oppressive, slower passages that pulse with tension. The title track “Ashspawn” captures the album’s spirit perfectly, unyielding, venomous, and uncomfortably human in its aggression. The production, handled by Menthor and mixed by Stefano Santi, keeps the atmosphere raw without descending into chaos. Every element serves the violence.

Lyrically, Enthroned maintains their fascination with the occult and metaphysical, written in collaboration with Gilles de Laval. It’s not fantasy but more like a philosophical descent into destruction and rebirth. Their words conjure an unsettling kind of transcendence, where spiritual disintegration becomes a form of creation. After three decades, Enthroned sounds neither nostalgic nor desperate to please anyone. “Ashspawn” is the sound of a band, cold, fierce, and deliberate. It’s an album made to endure the chaos, discipline the aggression, and justify the darkness..

Score: 7.8

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