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Opera IX is an Italian Black Metal band with Doom, Folk and Gothic influences. The band was founded by Ossian in 1988. In 1990 the band recorded a demo called "Gothik" which is unlike their other recordings lean towards thrash metal genre. Cadaveria joins Opera IX as their full-time vocalist with Flegias on drums. Their next demo called simply "Demo'92" already contain dark, well-composed occult black-death metal. Then Silent Bard, a classically trained Keyboardist, joined them at the end of 1993. This was a new step for Opera IX, the new line up recorded their first EP "The Triumph of the Death" with even more extreme and refined material then ever - raw, morbid, sophisticated doom-death including their most popular song - Born in the Grave. Currently all the demos are available in the compillation called "The early chapters". The first full-lenth "The call of the Wood " was recorded in 1995 before Silent Bard was replaced by Triskent who was later replaced by Lunaris before the recording of "Sacro Culto" in 1998. In the meantime, Opera IX also featured on the “A Call of Irons” tribute album to Iron Maiden with a rendition of their longest opus "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner".The year 2000, saw the release of the third album, "The Black Opera: Symphoniae Mysteriorum in Laudem Tenebrarum", featuring a cover version of Bauhaus' "Bela Lugosi's dead" as well as the re-release of their debut album with two bonus tracks.However, Cadaveria and Flegias decided to leave the band. They were subsequently replaced by Taranis on drums, and Madras on vocals. This line up recorded "Maleventum" which is oriented to less sinister pagan atmosphere and drew new audiences. Taranis and Madras left the band and then replaced by M the bard and Dalamar respectively the new line-up recorded the album "Anphisbena" in 2004. In December 2008, a triple DVD was released for the band's twenty-year career, entitled Mythology: XX Years of Witchcraft. In 2012 the album Strix Maledictae In Aeternum was released. In 2014 the singer M. "The Bard", Vlad and Dalamar, left the band due to stylistic-philosophical differences. Opera IX continued with the entry of Scùrs on bass, M:A Fog on drums and Abigail Dianaria on vocals. In November 2015, Back to Sepulcro was released, an album containing new recordings of previously released songs and two unreleased tracks.In 2018 the line-up changed again, with the entry of Dipsas Dianaria on vocals and Charon on bass. In the same year, the album "The Gospel" was released. The lineup changes definitively in 2021 with the entry of LP Vault on drums and Velum on keyboards. The latest release in 2022 is "Samonios", and the band proceeds towards a new record.

7" Wimp records, - The Call of the Wood - Miscarriage/Nosferatu/ Iron Tyrant, - Sacro Culto, Shiver records/Avantgarde/Peaceville, - The Black Opera, Avantgarde, - Maleventum, Avantgarde - Strix, Agonia - Back to Sepulcro, Dusktone - The Gospel, Dusktone, - Samonios, Iron Tyrant

https://www.operaix.it/ (official website)