Antonius Rex

Italian prog band Antonius Rex made from the early 1970s meanderings of vocalist/guitarist Antonio Bartoccetti and vocalist/violinist Doris Norton (aka Fiamma Dallo Spirito. They helmed a minimum of three near-simultaneous rings during this time period: Jacula, the Unseen Pressure and Dietro Noi Deserto, each a variance on the band of floating music artists with whom the set most frequently worked well. Antonius Rex arrived collectively in 1974 around Bartoccetti, Exhausting and drummer Albert Goodman. Linking using the Vertigo label, the trio documented their first recording, Neque semper arcum tendit rex, that same 12 months. Nevertheless, the label balked in the diabolical extremes that designated the album’s content material and artwork – Bartoccetti’s lyrics experienced always been distinctly fascinated with the occult, but this most recent offering was evidently a step too much. Vertigo withdrew and Antonius Rex ready instead to concern the recording on Goodman’s personal Darkness label. Nevertheless, while promos had been pressed, the recording remained unreleased. It had been 1977 before Antonius Rex stirred once more. Reworking two songs from Jacula’s Tardo Pede In Magiam Versus 1972 debut recording, and both edges of Invisible Force’s “Morti Vident” 1971 solitary, the four track Zora was portentously subtitled “an observation by Antonius Rex, and managed Bartoccetti’s occult musings, merged having a distinctly Bach-influenced collection in body organ music. Among the album’s additional attractions are efforts from I Raminghi mainstays Franco Mussita and Angelo “India” Serighelli. The next 12 months, with Goodman having been changed by Jean-Luc Jabouille, Bartoccetti and Norton extended the music group with bassist Marco Ratti and flautist Ugo Heredia and started focus on their sophomore arranged, Ralefun (an anagram from the British word “funeral”). Once again they revisited Jacula’s debut recording searching for material, however the resultant arranged was somewhat more assorted than its forerunner, even rotating off a 45, providing alternate versions from the songs “Agonia per el amore” and “Witch Dance”. Both produces promised great points; Bartoccetti, however, experienced no purpose of providing them. Another Antonius Rex recording, 1979’s wryly entitled Anno Demoni, was released as a restricted edition of simply 499 copies, each authorized by Bartoccetti; the band’s last discharge was 1980’s Praeternatural. Bartoccettidisbanded the group immediately after, but provides maintained the Antonius Rex name for both his very own website as well as for a career-spanning compilation, 2002’s Verba Non Volant. Furthermore, he provides overseen reissues of most four Antonius Rex albums.