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Ashen Horde Unveils New Black/Dying EP “Decayed” in Party of Tenth Anniversary
Modern excessive steel band Ashen Horde is celebrating the Tenth anniversary of its debut album with a brand-new EP! Decayed, which options 4 new songs that tie again to the band’s earlier 4 albums, can be to be had on restricted 10” transparent vinyl, cd and virtual. Together with the 4 new recordings, the cd will function 12 further songs, compiling the band’s unique, nonalbum subject material launched from 2015-2021. The EP is these days to be had for preorder at https://www.indiegogo.com/initiatives/ashen-horde-Tenth-anniversary-ep-decayed#/
Lead unmarried, “The Reaping,” serves as a mini-sequel to the 2015 album 9 Plagues.
It alternatives up a few years after the album, and appears at one descendent of the folks onto whom the plagues (detailed at the album) fell. Because of the realization that their ancestors had been cursed, the bloodline has been seen as lesser, and all individuals of it were handled as needless dregs. However one in every of them is completed being trod upon, and vows to damage the curse via taking vengeance on all who’ve handled them as much less. The music juxtaposes blast-beat pushed sections with melodic passages; brutally harsh vocals with majestic blank sections; in different phrases, quintessential Ashen Horde.
Shaped via guitarist/vocalist Trevor Portz in 2013, Ashen Horde was once created to be an excessive steel band that refuses to be sure via anybody style, as a substitute embracing parts from around the excessive steel (or even rock) spectrum. At first a one-man band, Ashen Horde has expanded to incorporate a complete lineup, together with famend drummer Robin Stone, bassist Igor Panasewicz, and new vocalist Karl Chamberlain. Chamberlain, who makes his debut in this EP, changed long-time vocalist Stevie Boiser, who’s these days fronting tech dying stalwarts Inferi.
The band’s most up-to-date complete period, Antimony, was once launched in 2023 via Transcending Obscurity Information, and won a lot essential popularity of its variety and complexity. As famous via The whole lot Is Noise, “grungy, technical, blackened, innovative, doomy, melodic, atmospheric – many adjectives describe Antimony…” The band is these days at paintings at the observe up, which guarantees to observe the similar trail of genre-blending extremity.
Even though the band have now not carried out because of the truth that they reside all over the place the globe, discussions are within the works to in any case deliver Ashen Horde to the degree. Portz, having lately finished a excursion along with his band Abhoria, is eager to in the end perform a little Ashen Horde dates within the close to long term.
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Decayed tracklist:
A Portent Some of the Particles
The Reaping
Euphoric Lament
Baited Breath (2024 re-recording of a music from the debut album, Sanguinum Vindicta)
CD bonus tracks:
Archaic Convictions (standalone unmarried, 2021)
Black Curse (restricted cassette, 2021)
Knowledge of the Witless (restricted cassette, 2021)
Roar of the Wyrm (Tintregen EP, 2019)
The Entity (Tintregen EP, 2019)
The Torture Cycle (Tintregen EP, 2019)
Mourning Due (Tintregen EP, 2019)
A Semblance of Normalcy (standalone unmarried, 2019)
Arisen (The Alchemist 7”, 2017)
Fallen (The Alchemist 7”, 2017)
Cerement (9 Plague vinyl-only bonus observe, 2016)
Echthros (Echthros 7”, 2015)
Ashen Horde 2024:
Trevor Portz: guitars and background vocals
Karl Chamberlain: lead vocals
Igor Panasewicz: bass
Robin Stone: drums
Practice the band at those hyperlinks:
https://www.instagram.com/ashenhorde/ (@ashenhorde)
https://www.fb.com/AshenHorde/
https://ashenhorde.bandcamp.com/
