SOTHORIS – Domus Omnium Mortuorum

SOTHORIS – Domus Omnium Mortuorum

(Fetzner Death Records / ADG Records – out now)

Polish blackened death metal force SOTHORIS return with Domus Omnium Mortuorum (“House of All the Dead”) a record as theatrical as it is terrifying. It’s a macabre concept album that drags 19th century tragedy into the modern age, turning graveyards into stages and the dead into narrators. From the opening dirge of “Wieczornica,” where crypt doors creak open to the sound of restless spirits, to the closing slams of “Piętno,” this album doesn’t just play, it fkn haunts.

The band’s third full length sees Raven’s tortured vocals clawing through Hex and Setrial’s relentless riffing, while Lord Ghash and Hrist anchor the madness with a rhythm section that could wake the fkn dead. Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Krzysztof Kostencki at Tetra Wave Studio, the production hits that perfect sweet spot, dense, raw, and heavy as a tombstone dropped on your skull.

Lyrically, Domus Omnium Mortuorum is pure gothic poetry. Written in Polish, the verses are steeped in despair, rebellion, and existential rot. Tracks like “Szkarłat” and “Byłem Faustem” evoke both romantic tragedy and blasphemous grandeur, while “Dzieci Diabła” spits venom at hypocrisy with the fury of a sermon gone straight to hell. “Pro Memoria” and “Lawa” tie the concept together, reflecting on war, faith, and decay through the eyes of the forgotten dead. It’s brutal and beautiful in equal measure.

The concept itself, spirits rising not for vengeance but remembrance, is fucking genius. It bridges past and present, stitching history’s horrors to today’s moral collapse. SOTHORIS don’t just play blackened death, they narrate it, embody it, and make it feel alive again.

Domus Omnium Mortuorum definitely isn’t background noise. It’s a séance in stereo, grim, poetic, and absolutely devastating.