Ex Deo

Montreal, Canada’s Ex lover Deo is a part project shaped in 2008 by Kataklysm frontman Maurizio Iacono, who wanted to combine his loss of life metal experience along with his enthusiasm for background — in cases like this, specifically centered on the Roman Empire, as evidenced from the name of 2009’s debut recording, the Nuclear Blast-issued Romulus. With Iacono managing all lyrics and vocals, the documenting lineup was fleshed out by Kataklysm users Stéphane Barbe (acoustic guitar), Jean-François Dagenais (acoustic guitar), François Mongrain (bass), and Maximum Duhamel (drums), aswell as Blackguard keyboardist Jonathan Leduc and in addition featuring guest looks by Nile’s Karl Sanders, Maintain of Kalessin’s Obsidian C., and Behemoth’s Nergal. Also well worth noting would be that the recording itself boasted an even more melodic make of loss of life metal to back again those mythical/historical lyrics compared to the ultra-complex and inaccessible design typically well-liked by Kataklysm. The music group relocated to Napalm because of its 2012 sophomore outing, Caligvla, which presented guest looks by Seth Siro (Septic Flesh), Mariangela Demurtas (Tristania), Stefano Fiori (Graveworm), and Francesco Artusato (All Shall Perish). In 2017, after a five-year hiatus, Ex lover Deo returned towards the studio room and shipped the ambitious Immortal Wars, that used the Punic Wars — a bloody trio of wars between Rome and Carthage led by famous generals Hannibal and Scipio Africanus — as its narrative basis.