ANNO DEMONI

As "Finnforest" pointed out, this album is some sort of a compilation of tracks released between 1972 and 1979. The least I can say is that they should have remained unreleased, and when I see the global ratings for this record, I 'm apparently not the only one to feel so.

I quite liked the debut "Jacula" album released in 1969. It was the first incarnation of this band, but unfortunately "Antonius Rex" could never justify the hopes from their early days: even if only their debut was really good.

What's available here is quite disturbing musical parts: whispering "vocals", boring background themes (attempting to be scary) and extremely little acceptable music (not even talking about good one).

The more I listen to this band, the more I am disappointed. A short and beautiful break is still available under the splendid "The Witch". Some three minutes of glory and peaceful music with superb vocalized parts. The highlight for sure (but compared to what?).

Some fine church organ (which is a TM of the band) is displayed during the dark "Ego Sum Qui Sum") as if the band was willing to capitalize on some sort of black magic stuff?This band has been thrown into the RPI melting pot, but believe, this has nothing to do with the great Italian symph genre.

The music available is quite bizarre, but passionless and rather boring. Best avoided as most of the recommendations except one reviewer who gave the masterpiece status to this album. All tastes are in nature?

One star. Poor vocals, poor music, poor everything.