After eight long years of silence, German artist Nino Sable—widely recognised as the voice of gothic rock entity Aeon Sable—reawakens his most intimate project, Melanculia. His new album, post mortem, will be released on 15 May via Noot Moon Records and Bat Cave Productions, marking a raw and deeply personal return to a musical persona defined by vulnerability, shadow, and emotional precision.
“Melanculia has always been one of my most intimate musical voices, and coming back to it felt necessary,” Sable reflects. “post mortem is not just an album title—it’s a state of mind, a way of looking at what survives after loss, silence, and transformation. Music has always been a place where shadow and beauty dance in the same mirror. This record is my way of giving those feelings a home.”
Born in the industrial landscape of the Ruhr area, Melanculia has always channelled emotional intensity through minimalism. post mortem continues that tradition: fragile, unpolished alternative rock with gothic undertones, built from acoustic guitar, spectral synths, and lyrics that cut straight to the bone. True to form, Nino Sable writes, performs, produces, and designs every element himself.
The album emerged from memory, inner movement, and the urge to restore Melanculia to the centre of Sable’s artistic universe. This is not nostalgia—it’s a deliberate reconnection with a creative language that never truly vanished. The music drifts between shadow and clarity, introspection and release, carrying the enigmatic tension that has always defined the project.
“Going back to Melanculia felt less like a beginning and more like rediscovering a part of myself,” Sable says. “post mortem is a very personal album. It deals with memory, change, loss, return, and with what remains of a person, a feeling, or a time once everything else has moved on.”
As with previous works, Melanculia is less about traditional songwriting and more about translating inner states into sound. post mortem gathers sorrow, mystery, and faint glimmers of light into a record that doesn’t need volume to leave a mark.
The artwork and tracklist have now been revealed—and the first single is on the horizon. Stay tuned. Link
post mortem tracklist:
01. Dark Days
02. The Tower
03. Runaways
04. The Healer
05. Emptiness
06. We Are Only Human
07. Confessions
08. I Just Wanna Be A Good Guy
09. Sunboat Ascension
10. In A Forest Of Stars
11. Falling Into The Sun
12. For A Better Future
13. Saboia
14. Imago [Bonus track]
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