I heard Antonius Rex´s album Hystero Demonopathy by a chance when I
was surfing over youtube. However, it felt like I have heard this
before. And when I checked them out I found out that behind Antonius Rex
is Antonio Bartoccetti, he has another project under the name Jacula.
And Jacula released their first album 1969.
I got stuck into this album, I have listen on it with repeat in the
past week. It felt like I found the holy grail, a lost treasure. This is
fantastic!
Hystero Demonopathy was official released 2012-12-12. This is gothic
progressive rock, very dark and evil with a blend of humor. It is mainly
instrumental, sometimes there is speaking whispering vocals and
sometimes samples, I guess from old movies.
I can find so much things inside this record, I do not know if it is
influences or who influence who here. Antonio Bartoccetti have somehow
kept his style since the old time Jacula. But I felt much reminding of
Devil Doll, even Laibach, Sopor Aeternus and Madre Del Vizio sometimes.
There is of course progressive rock, sometimes with a blend of 70´s jazz
touch, but also neofolk, metal, classic music ect. Antonius Rex have
succeeded here to build up an atmosphere where you can picture a story
from the beginning of this record til the end. The story feels very much
medieval,
and I guess there is a witch hunt by knights. Some moments they really
succeeded to build up a hunting atmosphere. I really jumped on my chair
when I heard samplings with my Swedish native language.
“Du är så snäll mot mig”, that means “You are so kind to me”. I need to
figure it out from where Antonius Rex have took this sentences from.
You should give this album a chance, and listen to it in a relaxing
moment because this is music that brings a vision of a story, and there
is not a happy ending in this one.
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