Sun of the Dying’s new album, “A Throne of Ashes”, is the Spanish death-doom band’s third. They first impressed me with their second album, “The Earth Is Silent” in 2019. Now they seem to have taken things a step further—and sound even better. This is heavy music shot through with depressive melodies and death-metal vocals. At times it’s grand and epic; at others brutal, slow and mournful.
The band invite comparison with Hamferð and Swallow the Sun, and even older acts such as Anathema and My Dying Bride. Just check out the song “Black Birds Beneath Your Sky”, that has a verse that makes me think of My Dying Bride, and it sounds pretty awesome. The production is solid, with little to fault. There’s a lot happening on “A Throne of Ashes”, and it’s an album that stands up to repeated plays without wearing thin. As noted, I’m impressed by Sun of the Dying, and they definitely deserve more attention. “A Throne of Ashes” is assured and sits comfortably alongside the heavyweights of the death-doom genre.
Released November 21st, 2025 on AOP Records.
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