2007
Anno Dominus
Years
came and went, but the spirits of STONE DEMONS, Martino and Van Hellsing stayed
in touch, always longing to complete what was started. Some encounters to watch
classic terror movies and listen to some horrid records put them in the mood to
agree on resurrecting STONE DEMONS. Removing the dust from their eyes, the Demons
of Stone have spread their wings again and into their dead eyes burt a bloodred
flame.
Looking
through various old rehearsal tapes and notes, Martino and Van Hellsing started
to work on the basis of those low quality sounding unfinished tracks. The task
seemed to be very difficult since they had to wait some time until both
schedules could match and new corpses would be found to join, as none of the
former members were located, or in the case of Diana refused to join, Van
Hellsing started to contact old friends who would be interested in the project
and would match the horror concept which is the core of STONE DEMONS.
The
first spirit to be summoned was Erick de Macario, once invited to be part of
the band, but due to lack of time, had to decline. Now he sits behind the drum
kit. In the deepest places of the morgue, they found the mortal remains of J.J.
Constanzo, a long time friend, whose impressive dramatic vocal style was the
last spectre to appear and join.
2009
Anno Dominus
With
the line-up complete, new rehearsals are done to create new stuff and update the
one already written. As a test, in autumn/winter 2009, the DEMONS recorded the
very first song they wrote: “Vampyr”. Trying to experiment a bit, they recorded
about 3-4 versions of the song. As everything went well, the Demons realized
that they would go forward and continue recording.
Only
a bunch of copis on cdr were given away to closer people. One of the copies arrived to
Blower Recs, long time friends of Martino and Van Hellsing. This lead to the
inclusion of the song in the Blower’s records compilation “Forged in Metal” in
March 2010. The response towards the band was overexpected, above all in Italy,
Greece and Germany, something which convinced STONE DEMONS to finally complete
the never released demos “Vampyr” and “The Craft of the Witches”. Intense
composing sessions took place after digging through old tapes, to decide which
stuff would be usable for future records.
On the early days of winter 2010, they gathered again to start a recording session. For instance they decided to record “Mournful Woman” and thus release the planned “Vampyr” tape, but missing the self titled song “Stone Demons”, which would be included on a later release. On December 2010 the band printed 50 copies in tape and passed them unto close friends. But as people noticed about the cassettes, asked for the stuff, so the band decided to print some on cd format on February of 2011.
