Italian-Slovenian doom/death metal band Assumption announces new full-length album »Paradox Of The Arrow«; first single »Tombs Upon The Sun« out now!

Italy/Slovenia-based doom/death metal band Assumption has announced their third full-length album, »Paradox Of The Arrow«, which will be released on November 13th, 2026 via 20 Buck Spin.

Listen to the album’s first single »Tombs Upon The Sun« below!

Tracklist:
01. Paradox Of The Arrow
02. A Labyrinth In Ruin
03. Tombs Upon The Sun
04. Southwards Our Spirits Shall Forever Drift
05. Selenite
06. Vrykolakes

Courtesy of 20 Buck Spin:

Italy’s Assumption return with »Paradox Of The Arrow«, a new descent into the strange temporal architecture of death doom. Since their earliest recordings the band have treated the genre less as a monolith set in stone than a space in which mass, duration and atmosphere can be manipulated. On »Paradox Of The Arrow« that process advances further, stretching the apparent distance between one moment and the next time itself dissipates into an altered abstraction.

Assumption’s immense low-end foundations remain, but the band’s heaviness is rarely a matter of density alone. Riffs unfurl geologically, like the convergent boundary to a subduction zone, before abruptly accelerating into passages of violent death metal, only to collapse again into long intervals of suspension, dissonant guitar resonance and spectral ambience. Guttural vocals emerge from deep within while drums alternately measure out enormous spaces and rupture them without warning. Melody appears in oblique fragments rather than conventional resolution, and psychedelic details flicker at the margins, where quiet stillness can feel as consequential as impact and the vibrations of beauty and dread dissolve into an amorphous shimmering light.

Photo credit: Cristina Oddo

Taking its name from Zeno’s ancient paradox of motion; the proposition that an arrow in flight, observed at any single instant, is motionless; »Paradox Of The Arrow« finds an apt philosophical analogue for Assumption’s music. These 6 tracks from the depths draw the listener through successive states of movement and inertia, collapsing the notion of linear time. Across its prolonged passages and sudden eruptions, the album continually distorts the sense of scale and duration. By the time the arrow reaches its mark, the path behind it feels far less certain than when it began.

»Paradox Of The Arrow« is releasing November 13th, 2026 on LP / CD / digital. Pre-orders are available here:
20buckspin.com/assumption | 20buckspin.bandcamp.com

D.I., guitars and bass tracked in Italy and Slovenia March 2026.
Drums, re-amps, vocals, synths, mix and mastering done at Art Distillery Studios (Modena, Italy) by Claudio Mulas.
Engineered by Claudio Mulas.
Produced by Assumption and Claudio Mulas.
Cover art by Mariya Popyk.
Painting photographed by Marco Zanin.
Band Photos by Cristina Oddo.
Sleeve design and layout by Claudio Collina.

Assumption is:
Giorgio Trombino – Vocals, Guitar, Synths
Matija Dolinar – Guitar
Claudio Troise – Bass
David Lucido – Drums

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well