HIDEOUS DIVINITY (IT)

Death metal | Established 2007 | IT | Facebook

This Italian death metal beast was formed in 2007 as a brainchild of Enrico Schettino, one of the founding members of Hour Of Penance. The same year saw furthermore the release of their two-track demo “Sinful Star Necrolatry”, which offered a potent mix of European and American death metal and placed HIDEOUS DIVINITY on the map. And though it seemed afterwards that the band was to disappear, in 2010 HIDEOUS DIVINITY re-emerged in a new line-up, appearing on several shows in Scandinavia, and returning there the following year straight to the famous Inferno Festival. The final confirmation that this warmachine returned came in 2012 with the release of their debut “Obeisance Rising”, a conceptual piece based on the 1988 sci-fi horror “They Live” by the iconic American director John Carpenter, thus setting up a trend to which HIDEOUS DIVINITY are fateful till today. Thus, the second full-length “Cobra Verde”, released in 2014, drew its inspiration from the 1987 eponymous drama by Werner Herzog, while the latest piece “Adveniens” references another iconic sci-fi horror by a no less iconic director – i.e. “Videodrome” by David Cronenberg (though the works of the German pre-WWII philosopher Walter Benjamin also had a role to play in the album concept). Combined with a straightforward, yet technically precise, brutal death metal, it delivers a truly intense experience. So, make sure not to miss it live and in a festival premier no less!