The complete six-track Paradox Of The Arrow is now streaming on YouTube, ahead of its November 13, 2026 release through 20 Buck Spin. The third full-length from Italian death doom quartet ASSUMPTION will be available on LP, CD and digital formats, with preorders open through the label webshop and Bandcamp.
Vocalist and guitarist Giorgio Trombino describes the record as a document of the band’s current state and continuing evolution: “The fruit of endless hours of passion, travels, obstacles, and visions has come to light. This album is a representation of our moment in time. It has opened several doors in our mind. We'll never cease to mutate because this is the destiny we've chosen as a band.”
He adds: “We acknowledge all those who worked hard to make this happen. Follow the arrows.”
The album takes its title from Zeno’s arrow paradox: an arrow in flight, considered at a single instant, is motionless. The announcement connects that idea to ASSUMPTION’s treatment of movement and suspension across the six tracks, extending an approach to mass, duration and atmosphere present since the band’s earliest recordings.
The supplied musical description places low-end weight alongside abrupt death metal accelerations, prolonged pauses, dissonant guitar resonance and ambience. Guttural vocals and drums move between spacious passages and sudden ruptures, while fragmented melodies and psychedelic details contribute to the changing sense of scale and duration.
ASSUMPTION tracked the guitars and bass in Italy and Slovenia. Claudio Mulas handled reamping, the recording of drums, vocals and synth, and the album’s mixing and mastering. Mariya Popyk, whose credits include Lugubrious Garment and Tomarum, painted the cover art, which was photographed by Marco Zanin. Claudio Collina handled the layout, including photography credited in the announcement’s body to Cristina Oddo.
The press material recommends Paradox Of The Arrow to listeners of Disembowelment, Spectral Voice, Mortiferum, Mournful Congregation, Evoken and Indesinence. Its included review excerpts emphasize both the record’s weight and its use of space. No Clean Singing highlights the drumming and melodic continuity through changing passages; Invisible Oranges points to rumbling riffs, deep growls and a light psychedelic feel. Meat Mead Metal describes the album as dark and spacious, while The Razor’s Edge emphasizes the expansion of the band’s sound. In a translated excerpt, Metalitalia cites Disembowelment, Evoken and Indesinence as reference points while praising the quartet’s freedom of thought.
