Death metal stalwarts Immortalis have announced the re-issue of their one and only album Indicium De Mortuis via Hammerheart Records. This dark, fluid and malevolent extreme metal masterpiece from 1991 will be released on vinyl and double CD on 20th February, 2026.
Pre-orders are now available here: https://immortalis.lnk.to/indiciumdemortuis
Welcome to the bizarre world of Indicium De Mortuis by Immortalis, a record where nothing is what it seems. This is a death metal album that channels the spirit of Possessed and Slayer. The album is menacing as hell, do not proceed with caution… go in and prepare to be kicked back out. If you want some dark, cryptic death metal with no mercy, then this is the stuff of kings. The production (courtesy of Andy Classen from Holy Moses) sounds like an early Dan Swanö recording and has aged well. The vocalist roars like Barney Greenway of Napalm Death, the riffs reminds one of Florida death metal (Deicide and Massacre especially), the eccentric rawness is not too distant from Austrian bands (e.g., Pungent Stench, Disharmonic Orchestra).
For old school death metal, it’s as special and haunting as they come, but with more doom as the special ingredients. Where Hypocrisy’s Penetralia was bludgeoning with its tone, this one is heavy as shit but laidback at the same time, it kills you with the rhythm rather than the massiveness of the guitar tone. It isn’t the Swedish chainsaw, but deafening and cavernous like bastardized thrash on crack. Most of the riffs are mid-paced crushers while the drumming is ballistic bombs bombarding the earth. You could play this album to five death metal veteran listeners and they would all find new comparison points. The only consistency is the interplay between paranoia-inducing Possessed riffs (i.e., ever-decreasing circles that threaten to reduce the musical space to a singularity) and evil af Slayer riffs.
Indicium De Mortuis is brilliant, but requires concerted effort and attention. The result is some of the most adventurous and fluid death metal of its time. No exaggeration.
Track-list:
CD 1/LP
Indicium De Mortuis
1. Burning Existence
2. Intro
3. Subordinate Gods
4. Bleeding Inheritance
5. Quo Vadis (Everlasting Life)
6. Indicium De Mortuis
7. My Requiem
8. Voices of Forgotten Soul
9. Blasphemous Process
10. Countess Bathory
CD 2
Final Death (Demo ‘93)
1. Immortalis
2. The Cross
3. Blood in, Blood Out
4. Brotherhood of Snakes
5. Final Death
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