Blackened Death Metal Band SOTHORIS To Release New Album ‘Domus Omnium Mortuorum’ on October 3; Stream the Single ‘Lawa’!

The Metallist PR
Sep 3, 2025
3 min read

Polish blackened death metallers SOTHORIS have revealed that their new album Domus Omnium Mortuorum will be released on October 3rd via Fetzner Death Records. The album showcases 8 tracks for over 42 minutes of duration and it will be available as CD and cassette.

The lyric video of the song Lawa is now available. Watch it here:

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The starting point for this album, the inspiration is the monument to Karl Robert Lachmann, the only son of a German, aristocratic family, who died in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871), vandalized by cemetery robbers, located in the mausoleum in Jałowiec. His slightly modified image is on the cover.

Based on what is on the cover, such a sketchy, very loosely outlined "plot" was created. It comes down primarily to what is in "Wieczornica" and the sound of slamming doors (gates) at the end of the album after "Piętno". All the pieces after "Wieczornica" are de facto the voices of these spirits and our "today's" commentaries on the visions or stories they presented before these thieves. So we, as performers are a bit narrators, a bit actors, we interject a bit with our own words of commentary. Due to the fact that the cemetery is old, from the 19th century - hence the references to e.g. Faust, the Great Improvisation from the third part of Dziady, the motif of national messianism.

The idea to even attempt such a concept came from the reflection that the reality in which we live is beginning to resemble the old one, both on the level of society and the common blacksmith. That is why we decided that it would be an interesting game and very inspiring. Generally, despite everything, it is quite delicate, not intrusive, because we wanted it not to be a historical reconstruction group or a thematic album, but invariably a voice that reaches the ear of today's people, with whom they could identify - on this album, expressed through the mouths of a bygone era. The whole album is connected by the closing of the gate (sound), symbolically referring to the earlier opening of the coffins, but also to the end of that "séance" with the spirits, as well as the closing of the doors of their house, which is a reference to the title of the album "House of all the dead". This is the symbolic name of the cemetery on this album, where the action takes place, the cemetery that in our story is the home of all the souls who, tormented, forgotten, want to break out to the living, to pass on their suffering to them, thereby finding peace.

Sothoris' music is (as the musicians themselves describe it), "a mixture of black metal ferocity and death metal power", and the lyrical layer is a study of human wickedness.

SOTHORIS revealed the artwork created by Bartosz Szczepaniak and Maksymilian Krasoń, while the definitive tracklist can be read as follows:

1. Wieczornica (5:31)

2. Szkarłat (5:43)

3. Lawa (6:39)

4. Byłem Faustem (6:03)

5. Dzieci Diabła (4:53)

6. Pro Memoria (4:52)

7. Dym (4:57)

8. Piętno (5:25)

Music recorded, mixed & mastered by Krzysztof Kostencki at Tetra Wave Studio. Band photo by Maciej "Wuja" Chomik.

Next shows:

October 10th - KVLT Fest, Poznań (PL)