Mortuary Drape

Mortuary Drape was founded in 1986 by a central core of three people, one of which is still in the group (Wildness Perversion). The founders were inspired by 'black metal' with an esoteric-necromantic current, both for the lyrics and for the stage design impact: they decided to baptize their style as 'black-occult metal'. In 1987 they published 'Necromancy', the first demo tape. During the period from 1988 to the first half of 1991, the line-up stabilized in three elements and the second demo called 'Doom return' was released. Read more on Last.fm …read full bio

Mortuary Drape was founded in 1986 by a central core of three people, one of which is still in the group (Wildness Perversion). The founders were inspired by 'black metal' with an esoteric-necromantic current, both for the lyrics and for the stage design impact: they decided to baptize their style as 'black-occult metal'. In 1987 they published 'Necromancy', the first demo tape. During the period from 1988 to the first half of 1991, the line-up stabilized in three elements and the second demo called 'Doom return' was released. In 1991 they had their first contacts with labels for a possible record deal; the group made its debut with the first CD called 'Into the drape' published by the Greek record company Decapitated rec. immediately followed by their presence on the compilation 'Wine of Satan' for Spellbound (another Greek label) as the only Italian group on the LP. At this point, the founder Wildness Perversion remained as the only original member, with the double role of vocals and drums. In 1994 there was a second record called 'All the witches dance' for Unisound. On June 1996 'Mourn path' mini CD marked a new goal for the band: it's in this period that they played a European tour that promoteed the repertory of the band. On October 1996, exactly ten years after their foundation, with the publishing of the new album 'Secret Sudaria' (eleven pieces) the band made a partial line-up change with the return of all the founders. The following years, from 1997, are very troubled because of all the line-up changes with many musicians involved in the band with the two founders Wildness Perversion and Without Name. Finally, in 1999, the band is stabilised and thus the members have the possibility to create the draft of new pieces that become the soul of the new album called 'Tolling 13 knell' for the label Avantgarde music. The album, containing 10 brand new songs, was released at the end of 2000 and followed a few months later by the double LP version with 4 bonus tracks published by Iron Pegasus under Avantgarde license. After the release of the album and a few live shows in support of it (as for example the festival Darkness upon Italy with Carpathian Forest and the Italian date of No mercy tour 2001) begins a new strong line-up revolution inside the band: in fact all the members except Wildness Perversion and Left-Hand Preacher (now playing guitar) quit the band during 2001. At the end of 2003 the label named WILD PROD. reprinted the two cult demotapes “Necromancy 1987” and “Doom Return 1989” on cd support, packing them in an original box with renewed graphics. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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