imited to 100 hand-numbered CDs, Ashes of the Astral Rite is an invitation into the shadowed realms of Aftoktonia’s sound—a realm where frost-laden landscapes meet the whispers of the cosmos. Each note, each chant, each synthetic echo is a fragment of an astral ritual, meticulously crafted to pull the listener beyond the mundane into a twilight of blackened reverie.

The demo’s three tracks unfold like chapters of a forgotten rite, merging raw, lo-fi black metal with hypnotic, spectral synths. It is a music of darkness and transcendence, simultaneously intimate and immense, evoking the primal grandeur of early Norwegian black metal while carving a singular, otherworldly path.

Every hand-numbered CD in this limited edition is more than a physical object,it is a vessel, a talisman for those who seek the ritual, the obscure, and the ethereal. Ashes of the Astral Rite is not merely to be heard, it is to be experienced, to be surrendered to, a fleeting touch of the astral captured in sound.