Swedish gothic metal/rock project Ashen Sun have released “Ashes Of The World”, the second single taken from their forthcoming album Velarium, due out on 27 March via Desert Plain Records. The track arrives accompanied by a lyric video that underscores its bleak and timely themes.
“Ashes Of The World” feels uncomfortably relevant in the current global climate. Its lyrics paint a stark portrait of civilisation on the brink: cities collapsing, skies thick with death, and humanity reduced to shadows moving through the ruins. The song depicts war as a faceless, dehumanised force — a world where moral boundaries have dissolved, leaving only chaos, silence, and the psychological wreckage of a conflict that resembles a third world war. Hope flickers faintly, buried beneath smoke and rubble.
Ashen Sun is the creative rebirth of Johnny Hagel, known for his influential years as bassist and co‑writer in Tiamat and Sundown. With this project, Hagel steps fully into the darkness once more — but this time as the sole architect of the sound and vision.
Further details about Velarium, along with the previously released single “Faith’s Funeral”, can be found HERE. Link
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