Australia's The Amenta are presenting a brand new official video for their hymn to Satan, "Sono L'Antichristo". The latter is a reworking of the Diamanda Galas composition and appears on the group's recently released covers EP, Plague Of Locus. Video clip was produced and edited by the band. Live footage filmed by Shane Thomson with the assistance of Don Thomson, James McInnes, Col Caldell, and Josh Tanidis.




The Amenta's keyboard player Timothy Pope narrates:

"Diamanda Galas is an artist who should need no introduction. Her voice is incomparable to any other and her work is sui generis. "Sono L'Antichristo" was originally on her incredible Plague Mass album which was the first album of hers I had heard. Not long after hearing this album, Erik and I found out that Diamanda Galas was playing in Sydney at the Opera House. We jumped in the car, desperate to see a live performance of this wild and soul-scouring work, but by the time we got there the show had started and the doors were locked. On the way to the bar to drown our sorrows, we passed the merch store which proudly displayed Galas' book 'The Shit Of God' (later I found this to be a line from "Sono L'Antichristo") and we knew we had missed a life-changing performance. Later, at the bar, we would watch scores of well-dressed, well-to-do people, streaming from the exits at intermission, never to return. She had driven them out. On top of her more "avant-garde" work, Diamanda Galas is one of the greatest interpreters of classic song and it is in this spirit that she is, in some ways, the patron saint of the whole Plague Of Locus release. Our version of the song, and the film clip we now release, can be seen as not only a tribute to an artist who has greatly inspired us over the years, but also a glimpse into what we imagined was happening behind those closed Opera House doors. The fever dreams of two disappointed metalheads."

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