Interviews About Albums: Nekromatics - Place Of Indulgence (2025)

In this new interview, we sat down with the Portuguese Symphonic Death Metal/Symphonic Black Metal band Nekromatics to ask questions about their album, "Place Of Indulgence".

1. What can you say about this new CD?

This work is more than just a record; it’s a descent into decay, shadows, and resurrection. Each track is a fragment of a greater ritual, a mirror of cities burning, shallow graves opening, and minds collapsing. It combines orchestral darkness with raw extremity, pushing us into territories where beauty and horror breathe the same air.

2. What is the meaning of the CD name?

Place of Indulgence represents the endless cycle of destruction and rebirth that defines our vision. It’s not just a title, it’s a seal, a mark of necromantic energy. Just like in our songs, where ashes turn to whispers and graves hide secrets, Place Of Indulgence captures the essence of death as both an ending and a transformation.

3. Which one is the composer of the CD?

The creative process is divided, but unified. Melek Taus crafts the riffs and melodic structures that open the gates, while Melkor breathes life into them with vocals, orchestration, bass, and production. Together, we forge the necromantic machinery that defines Nekromatics; no single hand controls it. It’s a ritual that requires both architects.

4. If you had to pick one song, which one would you pick?

Necropolis Ablaze. It’s the perfect funeral pyre, a vision of a city consumed by fire where “No one escapes, none remain.” It carries the weight of apocalypse and the atmosphere of eternity burning down to ashes. Still, every track has its role in this journey, from the shallow graves to the haunted walls.

5. Is there a special message on this CD? If there is what it is?

The message is that death is everywhere, not only in flesh but in the ruins of our cities, in fractured minds, in broken promises. We don’t write about fantasy, but about realities twisted into darker visions. The special message is that everything decays, but in decay there’s also a strange form of transcendence.

6. Are there some lyrics that you'd love to share?

Yes, from Land of the Shallow Graves:

“Welcome stranger, tread with care,

The reaper’s hand is always there.”

This line captures the essence of what we wanted to portray: the constant presence of death, silent but inevitable.

7. Which inspirations have been important for this album? Like musically or friends, family, someone you'd love to thank especially?

Musically, we draw from the abyss, Dimmu Borgir, Death, Old Man’s Child, Behemoth, Necrophagist, but also from the world’s own collapse. Ruins, madness, violence in the streets, they are part of our fuel. Personally, we are grateful to those who walk with us in this shadowed path, the close ones who understand that this music is not entertainment but exorcism.

8. Something to add?

This is only the beginning. Nekromatics is a living ritual, and every listener becomes part of it. We invite all who embrace the shadows to join us, because the resurrection is already in motion, and soon the stage will burn with it.