Postmortal – Profundis Omnis

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7.5

• Band:
  Postmortal
• Duration: 00:56:33
• Available since: 09/05/2025
• Label:

• Aesthetic Death

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They come from the Catholic Krakow, the postmortal, but we feel we say that they are not exactly the principles of devotion. The choice of the Latin title for the first album, arrived after a split and an EP published in 2018, have just in common with all that religious apparatus. That same year he had also scored the last year of activity, due to a line-up dancer, up to the new motorcycle in 2024 by the work of two founding members, Michał Skupień (all tools) and Dawid Dunikowski (voice and Liric.
A long gestation, therefore, now food for a cascade of dense blackish material funeral doom, inclined to a twisted, brittle and corrupted body that has much to shame with black and death metal, putting on the outdoor musicians in the most extreme and evil currents of this music.
Call for poetry and romanticism, therefore, replaced by loyal movements, where it is a sense of blatant morbidness, of miasmatic hints, to take the scene. “Profundis Omnis” belongs to the category of works that first throw you on the ground, they show off and only later are they looking for a dialogue, an opening, a way to make itself understood: in fact, after having passed the first, perilous impact with its system of mourning and threat, the album shows its profound melodic and atmospheric sensitivity, effectively playing with voids and full, distortion of the most. Harp and shady melodies.
The rhythmic incede, a reinforcement in slow motion, combined with fascinating Gothic frescoes, easily leads to the plumbean world of the Evoken, especially when they treat themselves widely to slowness and a pinch of abstractionism, swaying in immobility, taking very long times and avoiding brusque instrumental detachments.
Just in the background, they emerge effective sorties in the psychedelia, in this approaching the excellent assumption of “Hadean Times”, standard bearers of a rather elastic funeral doom and full of references from the Avant-Garde attitude, but without exaggerating. The pain of the pain of the postmortal pain, unlike the Italian band, prefers quite minimal registers, managing to the not easy task of working in subtraction: this happens by minimizing the battery work, without sacrificing its authority.
Even the guitars do not hammer with too much enthusiasm, on the contrary, they often dissolve in icy, almost cinematographic harmonies, so much so that at the first use the album may appear too firm, sleepy; Therefore, it is necessary to probed their abysses well, going to look for its true essence, that if you are familiar with the genre, there is not much to manifest much.
Ai Postmortal, a bit like the aforementioned Evoken, does not mind brushing their own finesse of his toure speech, such as the use of a female voice in “Decay of Paradise”, or ecclesiastical vocation on the ending of “Queen of Woe”, while in other cases an immense load of anguish rises, echoing the sonic and conceptual extremisms of the Finns of Tyranny (“Darkest” Desire “).
The second half, reaffirming the same concepts of the first three tracks, remains slightly less continuous and perhaps it could have been clear something in the minute. In its entirety, the album does not however have substantial drops and has from its deadly compactness, not far from the best exponents of the contemporary funeral doom scene.
A sorted and personal work, “Profundis Omnis”, multifaceted for the canons of the genre, exhausting enough and perpetually burdened with negativity. In its totality not compelling – at least, not in its entirety – such as the publications of the already appointed Evoken, Tyranny or Asshonption, but not so far from those creative leaders. We hope they do not disappear again in the oblivion from which they come.