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OAKENTHRONE was formed in 2022 by founder and composer Simon Nagington. Originally as a solo project; his unique take on the black metal genre was forged in the 2 track tape releases of EMBERS OF REVERIE (2024) and ASTRAL BINDING & THE OATHSWORN (2025). Both of these cassettes sold out immediately and pushed OAKENTHRONE to the top of the Bandcamp UK Black Metal page where it has retained a foothold since.

2025 saw OAKENTHRONE develop into a full live band. Recruiting Nathan Caven (ex-Sathamel), Andrew Hunt (ex-Pist) and Ant Hurlock (ex-Mairu); the debut live performance came in October at the Call Of The Crow festival to huge praise. A festival exclusive split cassette with fellow festival performers and dungeon synth stalwarts, Gate Master, was put out. These tracks, along with the previous cassettes, were later packaged together for DARKWOODS Records in a CD format - PATHS ONCE TRODDEN (2024-2025).

In March 2026, OAKENTHRONE joined Scottish black metal pioneers, Saor, on the UK leg of their Amidst the Ruins tour. Becoming a pivotal moment for the band and cemented them as a commanding live force in the UK scene.

OAKENTHRONE'S debut album, AD SILVAM, thematically explores both the entropy of life and the atrophy of death. The temptations of the immortality that only death can offer, the terror of the concept of eternity, and the divinity of nature; the great equaliser, where men, beasts and gods are all destined to return, as one, to the soil.

Musically, each track tells a story. A saga that weaves between moments of unbridled rage, to the peaks of epic grandeur and the depths of melancholic introspection. Soaring melodies, monolithic riffs and blistering aggression with moments of brief, quiet reflection.

Written over the span of 12 months by Simon Nagington, now with the aid of the rest of OAKENTHRONE, AD SILVAM was recorded by the band themselves and mixed and mastered by Sam Turbitt at Ritual Studios in the spring of 2026.