Antonius Rex – Hystero Demonopathy

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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REVIEW: Lost In Kiev – Motions

I became stuck in Lost In Kiev´s album Motions from my first listening. It brought me memories back to the end of 90´s when I frequently listen to the Swedish project Morte Macabre superb album Symphony Holocaust. Dark and progressive rock. Just press play and relax to this very emotional and sometimes intensive record Motion.

Lost in Kiev is a 5 pieces band from Paris who right now searching for guitarists. Their music is very guitar based and they also work with samples. The album can nearly been seen as an instrumental album. The main part is instrumental, but they have partly added speaking monologs and in the second track ”A Mere Shift Of Origin” there is a dialog between a man and a women, kind of different. Then later on, in the last track ”The Day I Ruined My Life” everything turns out with a grime core screaming which fit perfect as a catharsis for this record.

I can highly recommend this record to people who are into darker guitar based progressive rock. Motion is filled with very much emotion. If you have heard Morte Macabre you probably will like this too. The big difference between those bands might be that Lost In Kiev is more straight forward when Morte Macabre sometimes pulled off more and became more crazy.



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