Doomenicus

Doomenicus (Domenico Caruso) was a one-man band born in 2001 by Doomenicus's will (who first acted as singer, songwriter and helped with arrangements). During this first phase of the band's life Doomenicus was accompanied by Baron Frankenheimer (Francesco Rinaldi), who deals with guitars. Still in 2001 Doomenicus produce their first demo titled "Suffering of Souls", which contained three tracks characterized by their length, by their evocative mood and by a very professional production. Immediately Doomenicus start to built a good reputation around them in the underground doom metal world. The reviews are very positive (Tomet E- Zine, Metal Shock, Brutalism, Empire Metal Zine, MetalWave, Il Male Production, Solitude Aeternus and many others) and they galvanize the one-man band’s work, which however starts to slow down, despite the large requests for live shows and the work-in-progress with another demo. (2006) Doomenicus remained frozen for five years, during which their leader, notwithstanding his great efforts, could not find anyone who could concretely help him with his project, until Murnau (Alessandro Nespoli), who worked as a guitar player in many local bands, involved Doomenicus in a Jammed Funeral Doom/Drone project whose tones were very expressionistic and bizarre: Remember November. On this particular occasion, which witnesses the presence of Murnau as a drummer and of Doomenicus as guitarist and screamer. At last, at the end of December 2006, the guitarist Stefano De Vito (Iubal) and his brother Davide (Crazoyde) on drums, join the band. The band now is defining: Doomenicus (vocal/bass), Murnau (guitar), Iubal (guitar) and Crazoyde (drum). The quartet immediately demonstrates its both emotional and musical concord, writing a large amount of material in a relatively small period, to the point that the band begins to think about recording the much awaited second demo after five years. The sound of Doomenicus, after this second incarnaton has testified to an apparent change of sound, in particular because of the absence of keyboards. The doom sound of Doomenicus now is much heavier, cathatonic and powerful and so more similar to that of bands such as Saint Vitus, Candlemass, without forgetting the great teachings of Paul Chain and "The Black".

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