The Use Of Ashes (named after a Pearls Before Swine album) is a band based in Nijmegen, Holland. It evolved from Mekanik Kommando which split up in 1988 due to musical differences. Some of the members started Güler and later on Ulanbator ; the others (Peter & Simon van Vliet with Maarten Scherrenburg) went on as The Use Of Ashes. A reissue of the final Mekanik Kommando album The Castle Of Fair Welcome marked the start of The Use Of Ashes in 1988.