SOTHORIS is a band formed in Miłosław (PL) in 2016 by bassist Lord Ghash and guitarist Sharghall. After completing the full lineup – Hrist (drums), Hex (guitar) and Raven (vocals) – the band began intensive musical activity, which resulted in the debut album “Raj Potępiony”, recorded and released independently in September 2018. In 2021, there was a change in the lineup - Sharghall was replaced by Setrial. Second studio album titled "Wpiekłowstąpienie" (CD, MC) was released on January 6, 2022. The album was very well received both in Poland and abroad, and its premiere took place simultaneously in few countries by More Hate Productions (RU), Misantropia Records (FI), Old Metal Rites (BR), Entropy Records (COL) and Manifestum Productions (MEX).
Within years of activity, band performed alive with Nervo Chaos, Sceptic, Arkona (PL), festivals: Black Waves Fest (Furia, Banisher), Frozen Sun Fest (Decapitated, Illusion), Metal Mine Festival (Rotting Christ, Gaerea, Taake) and earlier this year as support of Patriarkh.
And now it's time for a new album, the breakthrough and most mature album by SOTHORIS. Their 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.
This is how the band's vocalist explains the lyrical concept of the album:
"This album uses a certain artistic game. We go back in time to the 19th century.
The starting point for this idea, the inspiration is the monument of 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. 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 Pietno. Generally: at night, a group of cemetery hyenas smash coffins, and the spirits of the dead suddenly start to get out of them, but not to punish them, but to show the tragedy of their lives and the world in which they existed. 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. 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"."
Music for the newest release was recorded, mixed & mastered by Krzysztof Kostencki at Tetra Wave Studio. Cover artwork was done by Bartosz Szczepaniak & Maksymilian Krasoń. Band photo session by Maciej "Wuja" Chomik. New album titled "Domus Omnium Mortuorum" will be released on tape & CD by Fetzner Death Records and ADG Records on October 3, 2025. Pre-order is available here, and will be distributed in Poland by Szataniec.
Raven comments new song "Pro Memoria": "This song is a reminder that war is not about beautiful banners, heroic deed, or bronze monuments... it is, above all, a destructive force that feeds on death and devastation".
