De Profundis

Over the course of their career DE PROFUNDIS have grown and developed at a prodigious rate, their music blossoming into ever more imaginative and challenging forms, reaching out in a multitude of diverse directions, leaving limiting genre definitions and regulations shattered in their wake. Blending unfettered creativity, fierce ambition and outstanding musicianship the band have so far unleashed four magnificent albums, including the ground breaking The Emptiness Within and the stunning Kingdom Of The Blind. Kingdom Of The Blind, which was released through Wicker Man Recordings, a new subsidiary of ATMF, in 2015 was afforded lavish praise from critics across the world and hailed as undoubtedly the greatest De Profundis album to date. The torrent of glowing reviews lead to prestigious live appearances for the band, as they were invited to play with Enslaved, Grand Magus, Gorgoroth, Kampfar and Gehenna. In 2016 they also appeared at the Incineration Festival in London, one of the major extreme music meetings on the global calendar. 2017 marks the 10th Anniversary since the release of De Profundis’ first album, Beyond Redemption and a yearlong celebration of major events is well underway. The band started the year by hitting the road around the UK with Norwegian black metal kings Taake and renowned weavers of atmospheric darkness Fen. This tour marked the first appearance in the De Profundis live set of new song ‘An Orgy Of Grotesqueries’, a masterpiece of old school death metal, performed with De Profundis’ trademark skill and ingenuity. With the tour complete, ‘An Orgy Of Grotesqueries’ was then released as a powerful video single, with the dark and disturbing imagery created by Andy Pilkington of Very Metal Art (Flotsam And Jetsam). With the new video still making waves with metal sites across the net, De Profundis were back on the road again for a full European tour with David Vincent of Morbid Angel’s new band, I Am Morbid. The package was completed by gore legends Necrophagia, US pagan metal warriors Helsott and openers The Heretic Order and saw De Profundis take their anniversary celebrations to Italy, Switzerland, Germany and The Netherlands. Upon their return from Europe it became clear that ‘An Orgy Of Grotesqueries’ was not destined to be just an addictive addition to the live set and the soundtrack to a chilling video release. The next announcement from the De Profundis camp was that they would be releasing a celebratory career retrospective album, entitled Decayed: 2007 – 2017. Decayed... is to be For two decades, DE PROFUNDIS have never stopped honing their inimitable brand of death metal. Over
6 full length albums and 2 EPs, their music has developed into ever more intricate forms, reaching out in
a multitude of diverse directions, leaving limiting genre definitions and conventions shattered in their
wake.
Since their brooding debut “Beyond Redemption”, the band evolved and experimented unceasingly,
culminating in 2018's “The Blinding Light of Faith”. Here, the band achieved the sound that would come
to define them, razor-sharp extreme metal inspired - not just musically but also in ethos - by bands such
as Death, Atheist, and Coroner; pioneers from an era where the borders of subgenre were more fluid,
and exploration and experimentation were still yet to define the arts of extremity.
De Profundis is, has been and always will be a live band first and foremost. To date, the band has played
in 27 countries, from their native UK all the way to India, where they would open for none other than the
legendary Iron Maiden in 2009. Since then, the band has toured and shared stages with Deicide,
Immolation, Terrorizer,Malevolent Creation, Rotting Christ, Belphegor, Hour of Penance, Sigh, I Am
Morbid and Necrophagia to name just a few.
2025 marks a new chapter for De Profundis. With the new arrivals of Stefano Bassi on vocals and Simon
McAuliffe on bass. New music is currently being written and it will be annouced and released soon: after
20 years De Profundis is more alive than ever before and all the more determined to deal out death…