With over three decades shaping the darkened depths of European black metal, ENTHRONED return with “Ashen Advocacy,” the third single from their forthcoming twelfth full-length, Ashspawn. Conceived as the album’s culminating rite, the track manifests as a slow-burning psalm of judgment and renewal: a psychological tribunal where the self is divided between accuser, accused, and judge.

“Ashen Advocacy” unfolds in solemn escalation: ritualistic percussion and mid-tempo dissonance build toward an overwhelming conflagration of sound. Each riff carries the gravity of invocation, its tension thickening until the song collapses into a cathartic blaze. Fragments of melody briefly surface, only to be engulfed by the surge of distortion. Nornagest’s commanding vocal presence shifts between invocation and verdict, embodying both condemnation and release. The result is a composition that bridges the physical and metaphysical: an act of purification rendered through flame.

The piece distills Ashspawn’s core: rebirth through negation. Refrains such as “Accuser and accused, we are one in the same” and “Through fire, we are forged anew” serve as mantras of dissolution, blurring the line between guilt and absolution. The repeated incantation “Sordes Te, Egregia Sordes Te” closes the album’s ritual circle, marking the death of false divinity and the rise of liberated consciousness from the ashes.

Listen to Ashen Advocacy now: https://youtu.be/2HFaogY7rdo
Ashspawn is out December 5th via Season of Mist.
Pre-order & pre-save: https://orcd.co/enthronedashspawn

Tracklist:
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)
Full runtime: 50:17

Country: Belgium (BE)
Genre: Occult Black Metal
FFO: Marduk, Dark Funeral, Gorgoroth, 1349

Line-up:
Nornagest — Vocals & Samplers
T. Kaos — Guitars & Bass
Menthor — Drums & Percussion

Production Credits:
Recorded at Ophiussa Studio, London, UK.
Produced by Menthor.
Mixed by Stefano Santi at SPVN Studio, Milan, Italy.
Mastered by Phil Bashford at The Hive, London, UK.

Cover Art:
Cover artwork by Jose Gabriel Alegria Sambogal
(https://www.instagram.com/josegabrielalegriasabogal/)

Photography:
Band photography by Emanuela Giurano

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Available Formats:
Digital Download
CD Digipak
12″ Vinyl Gatefold – Black
12″ Coloured Vinyl Gatefold – Red
12″ Coloured Vinyl Gatefold – Gold w/ Black Splatters