Artist: HESPERIA
Album: FRE LI MONTI SIBILLINI (Black Medieval Winter over the Sibylline Mounts) ICE MARBLE VINYL (2LP)

Release date: 17.01.2025
EAN/UPS: 8715392250316
Media type: LP

The Italic spirit returns… Winter Medieval Black Metal from the Mounts of Sibylla!

Hesperia is a one-man concept band focused on Italian culture and history. Hesperia is the ancient and obscure name of the Italic lands ruled by the mythological sovereign Hesperus.

After exploring the pre-Roman era with a tetralogy based on the Roman poem Aeneid and the Roman era with two volumes about Rome, it’s now time for the Medieval Italic age: “Fra Li Monti Sibillini (Black Medieval Winter Over The Sibylline Mounts)” is a Medieval journey through the Sibylline Mounts, located in central-eastern Italy (Marche region, the region of Hesperus), filled with obscure legends and a truly dark history: heretics, witches, alchemists, necromants, goat fairies, the Inquisition, hidden villages/mountains/gorges, and... the sorceress Sibylla.

Legend and history intertwine, real places and real stakes, legendary characters and real people, accompanied by Medieval Black Metal with significant ‘90s influences (Immortal and Satyricon in particular), with elements of authentic medieval music and ambient parts that will truly transport the listener to these obscure places. This album is your ultimate key and path to the subterranean realm beneath the Mounts of Sibylla.

CD/ 2LP:

1. Fra le nevi de li monti sibillini (Preludio)
2. La grotta de la sibilla atto I: L’arrivo a l'hostaria
3. La grotta de la sibilla atto II: Il regno de la sibilla
4. La grotta de la sibilla atto III: La fuga/La salvezza
5. Notte a foce: Saltarello, L’ballo de le fate
6. Mons daemoniacus: Nero Paese De La Scomunica
7. Notte a vallegrascia: Echi di antiche feste piceno-celtiche
8. La leggenda del lago di pilato
9. Notte a rocca: Ombre pagane sul fiume aso
10. Jòppe le gole de l’Infernaccio
11. Notte a montegallo: Echi de le sdreghe a lu sabba
12. Cecco d’ascoli atto I: L’eretico, Il necromante
13. Cecco d’ascoli atto II: L’Inquisizione/Il rogo
14. Solstizio d’inverno fra li monti sibillini (Fine)