While they’re just beginning to kindle the fires for their first offering since signing with Season of Mist, Oak, Ash & Thorncontinue to fan the flames from their latest album. Following a mead-crushing performance at Decibel Metal & Beer Fest Denver and hammer-thrusting support dates with inspirations Týr, now, freshly armed as a five-piece, the blackened pagan power metal band are announcing their next tour.
This August, Oak, Ash & Thorn will play six special shows across the Midwest and Southwest. This ship sets sail with a lights-out set in front of their home crowd at Mile High Power Fest and ends with a triumphant return to the nearby kingdom of Colorado Springs. Along the way, the band will dock in Lawrence, Dallas, Austin and Albuquerque for the very first time. Not only is this also their first tour since adding newly knighted axeman Kadin Wisniewski. Along with Our Grief Is Thus, they’ll be polishing off an old battle hymn and unsheathing brand new magical odes off their yet-to-be-announced third album.
“Peasants of the Midwest and the Southwest, give heed!” declares Oak, Ash & Thorn. “We, the barbarian war horde of clan Oak, Ash & Thorn, throb with anticipation to man the OATBoat in summer’s dying days and set sail across the open…uh…plains? – for lands hitherto unconquered! Lawrence, Austin, Dallas, Albuquerque: lock up your livestock, your gold, your mead and your prettiest among you, for we shall depart from the port of Denver for your shores for the first time ever with fists a-pumping, axes a-swinging! Cower before us as we pillage and plunder amidst rousing choruses of our most stirring battle hymns, including some newly composed, freshly imbued with runic magic that the gods would grant us fortune time and again. Only after quenching our thirst for conquest shall we return to our kingdom in the mountains, our vessel piled high with riches and the spoils of victory, and there shall we celebrate our triumph with a feast in the halls of the great stronghold of Colorado Springs. Hone then your weapons, study your scrolls and join us in bloody revelry!“
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Oak, Ash & Thorn 2025 US Midwest & Southwest Tour
August 16 – Denver, CO @ Mile High Power Fest [TICKETS]
August 18 – Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck [TICKETS]
August 20 – Dallas, TX @ Three Links [TICKETS]
August 21 – Austin, TX @ Valhalla [TICKETS]
August 22 – Albuquerque, NM @ The Launchpad [TICKETS]
August 23 – Colorado Springs, CO @ Vultures [TICKETS]
Later this year, Oak, Ash & Thorn will make their maiden voyage to Europe alongside Nailed to Obscurity and Yoth Iria.
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Oak, Ash & Thorn 2025 European Tour with Nailed to Obscurity & Yoth Iria
November 19 – Dresden, DE @ Chemiefabrik
November 20 – Mannheim, DE @ 7er Club
November 21 – Baden, CH @ Werkk Kulturlokal
November 22 – Bologna, IT @ Alchemica Club
November 23 – Milan, IT @ Slaughter Club
November 24 – Munich, DE @ Backstage
November 25 – Stuttgart, DE @ Schwarzer Keiler
November 26 – Paris, FR @ Backstage By the Mill
November 27 – Maastricht, NL @ Muziekgieterij
November 28 – Siegburg, DE @ Kubana
November 29 – Herford, DE @ Kulturwerk
November 30 – Berlin, DE @ Urban Spree
December 1 – Copenhagen, DK @ Stengade
December 2 – Stockholm, SE @ Kollektivet Livet
December 3 – Gothenburg, SE @ Fängelset
December 4 – Hamburg, DE @ Logo
December 5 – Essen, DE @ Turock
December 6 – Emden, DE @ Live Music Center
More praise for Oak, Ash & Thorn
“…gloriously dance across a handful of different genre lines – No Clean Singing
“…full of extreme power, but manages to pair that with soaring and, at times, delicate melodies” – New Noise
“…invokes feelings of nostalgia and longing, layered with a healthy dose of aggression” – Metal Rules
“…fast, engaging and heavy metal” – Heavy Blog is Heavy
“…heavy music that brings together the best parts of melodic and power metal genres” – Metal Epidemic
“…revived my love for melodic death metal through its intense interpretation of pagan themes” – The Progressive Subway
“…blazes with melodic death metal power and also refuses to shy away from the damage we’ve taken on over our lives” – Meat, Mead and Metal
While only loosely constructed as a concept album, with Our Grief is Thus, Oak, Ash & Thorn have built a monumental record. Every song deals with grief in some fashion. “Dying Culture” is about the decay of tradition by way of urbanization and generational decline. “Light My Pyre” tackles betrayal and the dissolution of friendship. “Auras” deals with the erosion (and rejuvenation) of honor and identity in the face of withering familial ties.
Oak, Ash & Thorn recorded their latest album in Ft. Collins, Colorado, at the Blasting Room, which was founded by Black Flag and Descendents drummer Bill Stevenson. Our Grief is Thus marks the first time in the band’s history that they have walked out of a studio with an album fully representing their vision.
Having now signed to Season of Mist, they’re ready to take their spirited brand of blackened pagan power metal to even greater heights.
Lineup
Adam Armstrong – Lead Vocals
Jason Harding – Lead Guitar, Backing Vocals
Kadin Wisniewski – Rhythm Guitar
Erik Hoffman – Bass
Cierra White – Drums
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