-De Profundis-

In December 1996 born De Profundis, a gothic doom metal band managed by V. Orias A. & N. Aboriim. During more of 2 years, the band performed over a gothic style with some black influences. A few times after, De Profundis is joined by a keyboard player, who added some symphonic & orchestral touches to the band. Then, De Profundis recorded the first demo, called 'Severence', released at Requiem Records, an underground French label, which distributed the demo in 500 copies. Two months after, all the copies were sold, and the band began to make some gigs all over France. Then, an Italian label called Nocturnal Music (Let Me Dream, Undertakers, The Sins of thy Beloved…) showed it interest to the band and signed them after the second demo 'The Winter of Oblivion & Pain', also released at Requiem Records in 500 copies. De Profundis then recorded his first album untitled 'Siècle de Cendres', which is the French translation of 'Century of Ashes'. The album is out one year after it recording and is distributed all over Europe & Japan. In January 2000, De Profundis became Ad Inferna, due to several copyright reasons, and bury the past of the previous name in performing on a whole another bombastic style, less gothic, but more orchestral, more dark, more aggressive…