OVERVIEW

After the impressive “Switch on Dark” (2006) and the esoteric doom “Per Viam” (2009) based on mystic songs composed between 2007-2008 by Antonio Bartoccetti and Doris Norton, the Antonius Rex band, releases the new album “Hystero Demonopathy”. This new shocking album “Hystero Demonopathy” (2012) once again analyses the invisible forces and demonic and hysteric possensions. The new band’s keyboardist, the musician Rexanthony, plays keyboards, piano, variuos synthesizers, sets drum machines lines and arranges. The “Hystero Demonopathy” album exudes a series of no rational blue-black visions, sometimes heavenly, sometimes terrifying, making each vision available to the listener for reaching a transcendental fusion. The mortals, listening to the album, get a praeternatural power and become able to live free, away from useless, meaningless and alienating problems of the daily life. The leader (composer and guitarist) Antonio Bartoccetti, as for the previous album, first wrote the video screenplay for each track, then composed the audio tracks and recorded all the album: all the work lasted 9 months. “Hystero Demonopathy” is the result of an esoteric research, made by Antonio Bartoccetti, on DEMONIC HYSTERIA, considered as a psychiatric event by some people and as esoteric-magic by others. Historically a psichiatric disorder or demonic esoteric disorder is marked by excitability, irritability, dark confusion, mystic demonomania, misbehavior and emotional extremes, occurring mainly in possessed women. From the point of view of music “Hystero Demonopathy” is a multisound-multistyles of concentrate fusion: gothic, classic, post-classic, dark, doom, metal, impressionist, progressive, post-progressive, after-rock…. with micro electronic inventions and perseverant events.

TRACK-LIST

1) HYSTERO DEMONOPATHY 5’55”                                                                               
2) SUICIDE GOTH 7’26”
3) ARE MINE 7’06”
4) DISINCANTATION 7’03”
5) DEMONIC HYSTERIA 5’13”
6) THE DEVILS NIGHTMARE 4’56”
7) WITCHES 7’25”
8) THE FATAL LETTER 7’14”
9) POSSACTION 7’10” (traumatic integral original document)
10) video REXAMPLE pt.1 (vocals soloist & riffs 1969-1974)

ANTONIUS REX 2012 LINE UP
ANTONIO BARTOCCETTI :::: Guitars, Vocals, Bass
REXANTHONY :::: vocals, keyboards, synthesizers, piano, digital drum, digital orchestra
MONIKA TASNAD :::: Medium

special guest:
FLORIAN GORMAN :::: Acoustic Drums (Gretch)
Vocal guests: Laura Haslam
Vocal guests: Vladimir Leonard
Vocal guests: Svetlana Serduchka.