A May 2024 soundboard recording of ASCENDED DEAD is now streaming as Live Apocalypse. Released November 6, 2026, through Carbonized Records, the live album documents a performance from the band's American Apocalypse Tour.
The eight-track recording was subsequently mixed and mastered for release. It also marks a return to the Marshall sound of ASCENDED DEAD's formative years, carrying forward the increasingly violent and unrestrained approach developed across the band's two studio full-lengths. The announcement describes the recording as preserving the sound, atmosphere and momentum of the band onstage that night.
Steven Jackson engineered Live Apocalypse, with mixing by Charlie Koryn and mastering by Greg Wilkinson. Kyle Bowen provided the artwork. Announced formats are CD, LP, cassette and digital, with separate ordering destinations supplied for North America, Europe, other international territories and digital purchases.
- Ungodly Death
- Bestial Vengeance
- Nexus Of The Black Flame
- Subconscious Barbarity
- Fissure Of Chaos
- Inverted Ascension
- Visceral Strike
- Ensnared For Eternity
ASCENDED DEAD formed in 2011 with a death metal approach rooted in darkness, primitive sound and chaos. Early Possessed, Necrovore and Venom were inspirations as the band built its beginnings through local performances and underground releases.
After recording debut full-length Abhorrent Manifestation, the band expanded beyond its Southern California origins, with members based throughout Southern California and the Pacific Northwest. Released in 2017, that album brought ASCENDED DEAD to national and international audiences. Its follow-up, Evenfall Of The Apocalypse, arrived in 2023; the announcement characterizes it as the fullest realization to that point of the band's intended dark, chaotic death metal sound.
The live album follows extensive performance activity across North America, including a full continental US tour in 2024. ASCENDED DEAD also toured Europe in 2019, 2023 and 2024, then performed across Southeast Asia and Australia in 2025.
Past festival appearances include Famine Fest, Covenant Fest, California Deathfest, Total Death Over Mexico, Invoking Black Death Fest, Maryland Deathfest, Kill-Town Death Fest, Metal Magic, Chaos Descends, Mass Destruction and Horrid Days Festival.
ASCENDED DEAD's announced live schedule includes Wretched Rites MMXXVI in Sacramento, California, on November 15, 2026.
The lineup consists of Jon Reider on guitar and vocals, Ian Lawrence on guitar, Charlie Koryn on drums and Jonny Quintana on bass. The supplied band photograph is credited to Yusef Wallace.
