Austere To Lay Like Old Ashes album cover - Austere is a very excellent side project, these two members have made another great release, 'To Lay Like Old Ashes' is a very great release, and this album reminds me of the great depressive black metal band 'Xasthur', the agonized black metal vocals and the heavy depressive riffs have shaped this amazing black metal album. The artwork is very deep, it describes the autumn times of the human's lifetime, I am a great depressive black metal fan and I really like this release.