The abyss has opened, and you’re about to be immersed in it with the brand-new album from Ashen Pall. Today is your first listen to this ten-track dive into the depths of black metal ahead of its proper release tomorrow. Titled The Elegy of Waning Mortality, this is the follow-up to the band’s 2024 EP Chains of the Grindstone. Based in Vancouver, the quartet has hauled out all the firepower they could conjure up with this new record. Stylistically, the album blends black, doom, and death metal. Leaning on the darker side of things, the soundscapes are bleak and atmospheric but magnetic and mesmerizing. It also features haunting, droning vocals with dissonant riffs and unrelenting rhythms. It’s an intense listening experience but is also digestible and doesn’t come on too strong. At this po...