THE CONCEPT

HESPERIA'S GATES ARE OPENING AGAIN, FROM THE MIST OF THE CENTURIES AN ARCHAIC CIVILIZATION REBIRTH....... HIDDEN FOR FOUR THOUSAND YEARS ITS ARCHETYPAL TYRANT HAS RETURNED TO RESTORE THE THRONE OF TWILIGHT FOR THE SECOND AGE OF TWILIGHT.
KNOWN MYTHOLOGY: THE GREEK AND THE PEOPLE OF THE EAST MEDITERRANEAN SEA CALLED ITALIC PENINSULA AND THE EUROPEAN WEST LANDS "HESPERIA", NAME DERIVED FROM "THE STAR VENUS"(THE MOST BRIGHT OF THE WEST SKY), THAT THEY CALLED "HESPERUS", THE STAR OF THE TWILIGHT; IT REPRESENTED THE MOMENT WHEN THE LIGHT BECAME DARKNESS SO THE WEST LANDS WHERE THE PLACE WHERE SUN DIED (WEST=OCCIDENS FROM SOLIS OCCASUS=KILLED SUN), THE PLACE OF TWILIGHT, NIGHT AND DARKNESS, AN INHOSPITABLE TERRITORY, MONTAINOUS, MARSHY, DENSE OF BUSHES & WOODS, DOMINATED BY A MITOLOGICAL KING, SIMILAR TO A MISTERIOUS SPIRIT, THAT THE GREEK CALLED HESPERUS, LIKE THE STAR OF THE EVENING.
UNKNOWN MYTHOLOGY: WHEN THE POPULATIONS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA WHERE IN THEIR GREATER SPLENDOUR HESPERUS WAS YET A LEGEND, MITHOLOGY, SPIRIT OF THE PLACE AND SO HIS ESSENCE REASCEND TO AN ANCESTRAL AGE, PREVIOUS TO THE KNOWN HISTORY AND TO THE MYTHOLOGY OF OMERO AND VIRGILIO. IN THAT AGE A MISTERIOUS CIVILIZATION HAD SUBJUGATED NATIVE POPULATIONS (MORE PRIMITIVE). IT DOMINATED AND POPULATED ITALIC LANDS(AND SOME WEST EUROPEAN TERRITORY) AND IT LIVED IN NATURAL PLACES, ABODES AND PALACES BUILT LIKE TANGLED AND PULSATING ORGANISMS, APPARENTLY SIMILAR TO BRAMBLES, MAZES OF BRANCHES, UNUSUAL MESS OF ORGANIC FOSSIL SUBSTANCES (STYLIZED IN THE HIGHER PART OF THE LOGO "HESPERIA"), MORTAL TRAPS THAT TOGETHER WITH THE ROUGHNESS OF THE LAND REPRESENTED THE TRUE FORCE AND DEFENSE AGAINST INVADERS.
ONLY SOME PARTICULAR AND PRINCIPAL PLACES WERE CHOSEN TO BE OUTPOST SIMILAR TO CITADELS OR STRONGHOLDS WITH A SHAPE AND AN ARCHITECTURE VERY EVOLVED AND COMPLEX, BUT HETEROGENEOUS AND UNKNOWN BY THE POPULATIONS OF THE NOTORIOUS HISTORY.THIS CIVILIZATION, THAT TAKE ITS NAME FROM THE PLACE (HESPERIA),BELIEVED IN A COMPLEX COSMOLOGY DOMINATED BY THE CYCLES OF THE SUN AND THE TWO MOONS(THE TERRESTRIAL MOON AND VENUS"HESPERUS") THAT WERE ITS EFFIGY: THE SUN LIKE A DODECAGRAM IN THE CENTRE OF TWO LUNAR QUARTER, EACH OTHER COAXIAL. THESE STARS RULED THE VITAL FLUXES OF PEOPLE, THAT EXPLOITED DIURNAL TIME, IN THE WARM SEASONS, AND NOCTURNAL TIME IN THE COLD ONES. THESE CUSTOMS, APPARENTLY UNUSUAL AND BIZARRE, HIDDEN SOMETHING WORRYING AND EXTRANEOUS FROM THE OTHER ANCIENT POPULATION THAT WE KNOW; SOMETHING AMAZING AND TREMENDOUS AT THE SAME TIME. THIS WAS THE REASON THAT LEADED THE TWILIGHT CIVILIZATION (OF HESPERIA)TO EXTINCTION, ESTABLISHING THE END OF THE FIRST TWILIGHT AGE; BUT THIS WILL BE REVEALED TO YOU IN THE FUTURE.HESPERIA'S INHERITANCE: THE IMMAGE OF THIS CIVILIZATION IT SEEMS TO APPEAR TO US LIKE AN INTERMIXTURE BETWEEN DIFFERENT CULTURAL ELEMENTS FROM THE POPULATIONS THAT WE KNOWN IN HISTORY (THAT PROBABLY INHERITATED SOME CUSTOMS AND HABITS REMAINED INTACT AFTER THE END OF HESPERIA), THE ROUGHNESS, THE FEROCITY, THE KEENNESS, THE WARLIKE AND RAW DISPOSITION OF THE HINTERLAND EUROPEAN PEOPLE MEDDLED ITSELF WITH THE REFINEMENT, THE GENIUS, AND THE EVOLVED CULTURE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA, AND WITH THE CHARACTERISTICS OF SOME POPULATIONS TIPICALLY ITALIC (ETRUSCHI, SANNITI, LATINI, PICENI, ETC.); IN ADDICTION HESPERIA HAD OTHER ELEMENTS EXTRANEOUS, EXTINCT, NOT ARRIVED TO US; THEM REPRESENT THE MORE AMAZING AND EVOLVED CHARACTERISTICS. BUT WHO DOMINATED THE VAST LANDS OF HESPERIA? WE KNOW WHO WAS A MISTERIOUS SOVEREIGN, A TYRANNICAL IMMAGE AND OBVIOUSLY HIS NAME WAS: HESPERUS. HIS FIGURE WOULD BE REMAINED IN THE BELIEFS OF THE LOCAL PRIMITIVE POPULATIONS, ALSO AFTER THE EXTINCTION OF HIS CIVILIZATION. IN THE PRE-ROMAN CENTURIES HE WAS SEEN LIKE A SPIRIT OF THE PLACE, PRIMIGENIUM RECEPTACLE OF LOCAL CUSTOMS AND CULTURE, AND WE CAN ADDED THAT IN EVERY HISTORICAL TIME AND AGE, IN EVERY PLACE WHERE TRADITIONS, FOLK, CULTURE, ANCIENT BELIEFS REMAINED INTACT, THERE STILL LIVE THE PRESENCE OF HESPERUS, SPIRIT OF THIS MILLENARIAN PLACES. IN EVERY AGE HE EXIST IN SOME WAY OR SHAPE ( ARTISTIC OR NOT). SO WHAT COULD BE HIS WAY OF EXPRESSION AND TO MANIFEST HIMSELF TODAY? THE ANSWER IS OBVIOUS TO US: METAL( NOT INTENDED IN THE TRADITIONAL WAY). TODAY WHAT REMAIN OF THE HESPERIAN SPIRIT IS A SOLITARY BARD REFUGED AND HIDDEN THROUGH CAVES, LAKES, RIVERS, AND WOODS, IN THE PLACES WHERE HE HAS REAPPEARED IN THIS EPOCH: IN THE EAST HESPERIA ON THE SIBILLIAN MOUNTS( THE MOUNTS OF THE SIBILLA). HE MOVES IN SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SHALLOWS, TELLING AGES AND CENTURIES SEEN FROM HIS EYES, FROM THE END OF FIRST HESPERIA ERA, TO YOUR TIMES, HE WILL REVEAL THE SECRETS OF HIS ANCESTRAL AGE, ONE DAY...........................................................................................................................................
HESPERUS AWAITS THE ADVENT OF THE SECOND CREPUSCULAR AGE TO RESTORE HIS DOMINION, BUT THIS TIME IN A DIFFERENT WAY RESPECTING THE ASTRAL AND SPIRITUAL LAWS THAT RULE UNIVERSE, TYRANNIZING THE IMPOSTORS THAT VIOLATE THE PRINCIPLES OF THEM OPPOSING THE ENTIRETY OF CREPUSCULAR DUALITY, THE SAME ERROR THAT LEADED TO DESTRUCTION OF THE FIRST HESPERIAN CIVILIZATION AND CONDAMNED THE SPIRIT OF ITS TYRANT TO WANDER THROUGH THE CENTURIES AND THE AGES, LEARNING FROM THEM THE UNIVERSAL MECHANISMS THAT HE BROKE.

"HESPERIA" THE CONCEPT: THE ENTIRE HESPERIA PROJECT IS A CONCEPT STRUCTURED IN 3 PHASES OR COMPENDIUMS:

-IN THE FIRST COMPENDIUM HESPERUS TELL TO YOU THE AGES OF THE HESPERIAN(ITALIC)LANDS CONSIDERING OUTER CULTURAL INFLUENCES, IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, STARTING FROM THE PRE-ROMAN CENTURIES TILL THE SECOND WORLD WAR. THE TALES WILL BE NARRATED NOT ALWAYS FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE STORY AND THE DOCUMENTSBUT OFTEN THROUGH LITERATURE, MYTHOLOGY, CINEMATOGRAPHY, OR THE EYES OF THE NARRATOR (EXAMPLE: THE FIRST VOLUME SPEAKS ABOUT THE PREROMAN AGE, THROUGH THE PERSONAL INSPIRATION OF A ROMAN EPIC POEM: THE "ENEIDE" OF VIRGILIO.

-IN THE SECOND COMPENDIUM HE WILL REVEAL TO YOU THE TRUE STORY OF HIS CREPUSCULAR CIVILIZATION, DURING THE FIRST AGE, ANTERIOR TO EVERY PERIOD NARRATED IN THE FIRST COMPENDIUM . THIS SUBJECT WAS HANDLED BRIEFLY AND IN ENGLISH IN THE REHEARSAL DEMO '97, BUT IN THIS COMPENDIUM WILL BE DETAILED IN ORIGINAL TONGUE (HESPERIDE).

-THE THIRD COMPENDIUM WILL CONCERN THE FOTHCOMING SECOND AGE OF TWILIGHT, THE RETURN OF HESPERUS AND HIS CREPUSCULAR CIVILIZATION (BRIEFLY DESCRIPTED IN THE REHEARSAL TOO). OBVIOUSLY EVERY COMPENDIUM IS DIVIDED IN SOME VOLUME, AND EVERY VOLUME IS DIVIDED IN SOME PART ( EVERY PART IS A CD) ; SO "AENEIDOS METALLIAPOTHEOSIS IS THE FIRST PART OF THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE FIRST COMPENDIUM.

METALLVM ITALICVM, METALLO HESPERIANO, HESPERIAN METAL (=HM, alike to say ARCHAIC ITALIC METAL): THE MUSIC APPARTEINED TOTHE METAL UNIVERSE BUT IT IS ENCLOSED IN NONE OF HIS EXISTENT FORMS. THIS SOUND IS THE FIRST STEP AND THE FIRST CLOTHES IN THE RESEARCH OF WHAT IS (OR WILL BE) METALLO HESPERICO INTENDED LIKE CREATION LIRICAL-MUSICAL OF ITALIC CULTURAL ELEMENTS DERIVED FROM MANY SOURCES: HISTORY, MYTHOLOGY, LITERATURE, CINEMA, FOLKLORE, ENVIROMENT, IN SYMBIOSYS WITH NEAR CULTURES.

THE LANGUAGE: " EVERY ARTIST IS A MAN OF HIS LAND, OF HIS TONGUE, OF HIS PEOPLE. EVERY NATIVE ELEMENTS, FROM THE PLANT NEAR HIS HOME TO THE TRIUMPHAL ARC OF HIS TOWN, BRING TO THE FORMATION OF HIS SPIRIT, THAT IS UNIQUE INSTRUMENT OF HIS OPERA,AND IF IT RMEMBER HIS COUNTRY IS ONLY TO SAY IN WHICH PART OF THE WORLD IS LIVED A MAN THAT CAN SPEAK TO ALL THE WORLD."C. MARCHESI, OP. CIT.

FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTS: 3 CHARACTERISTICS IN MUSIC AND LIRICS REPRESENTED BY THE 3 COMPENDIUMS

-EPIC (KNOWN HISTORY IN THE FIRST COMPENDIUM, INTENDED AS REAL, IMMANENT AND SO STILL PRESENT)

-OBSURITY (ELEMENTS AND TALES THAT RETURN FROM AN UNKNOWN PAST: HESPERIAN MYTHOLOGY OF THE SECOND COMPENDIUM)

-TECHNOLOGY (THE FUTURE, THE ADVENT OF THE SECOND AGE OF TWILIGHT, THE RETURN OF HESPERUS IN THE THIRD COMPENDIUM).