"Born from a rotten womb, scorned through life, until laid down in ashen tomb"
Ashen Tomb, formed in 2021, is a Finnish Death Metal band from Helsinki. Ashen Tomb plays straight-up Death Metal with influences from legends such as Autopsy, Incantation and Abhorrence.
Ashen Tomb does not aim to re-invent the wheel but leans on the pillars of Death Metal set back in the tape trading era.
Emphasis of the band is on riff-heavy, quality Death Metal and wild live shows. Their first single, Graveless Abomination saw daylight in august 2022.
Their eponymous EP was released in early 2023 and made waves across the world wide underground. In 2023 Ashen Tomb left their mark on the most prominent metal festival in Finland, Tuska Festival. Same year Ashen Tomb also made appearances at Helsinki Deathfest and Reykjavik Deathfest. Following on the release front Ashen Curse split with Sepulchral Curse was unleashed upon mankind in early 2024.
Debut album Ecstatic Death Reign was released late 2024 via Everlasting Spew Records and is now cracking necks around the world.
On the show front Ashen Tomb played on festivals such as Summer Massacre in Oulu, Finland, Karelian Bloodshed in Joensuu, Finland finally Oslo Deathfest in Norway. The debut album and several live shows saw Ashen Tomb progress through natural development more towards the fields of old school brutal death metal such as Suffocation, Dead Congregation and the likes.
Ashen Tomb has established themselves as one of the most promising Death Metal acts to come from Finland in recent years.