Biography for Apollinic Rites

Started under the name of Gebeleizis in 1998 by Fulmineos (drums, keyboards & vocals) and Horrendus (guitars). The project at first had also a session bassist player but only for a few months. In 2001 the bands name became Apollinic Rites due the fact that they wanted a more universal concept regarding the white god/god of light, the solar hierograms and other magical expressions of ancient hidden cults and wisdom. But the yeas passed without any recording or relevant activity, only several rehearsals took place. In 2003 Horrendus decided to work in the army as a permanent status so he had to leave the band and his musical journey. After this event Fulmineos decided to look for another guitar player to share his vision and luckily he founded Stallath in the beginning of 2008, when the common views and interest in music and magic brought the two characters together and they started the work for the first material based upon old rehearsal tapes that Fulmineos still had from the period with Horrendus as a guitarist. Finally here we are in 2010 after twelve years of more or less activity, Apollinic Rites is able to present its debut material, the five piece mini- CD entitled “The Hidden Sanctuaries”. They have never spoke about their musical influences, but its merely the nineties black metal old school scene (Absu, Thou Art Lord, Varathron) and some ritual cult music from the Balkan area (Daemonia Nymphe, Irfan) as the whole concept is trying to recreate imagines with forgotten deep times lost into the old history, they speak about the temples of Apollo from the White/Leuke Island in the Black Sea, about Trakian and Balkan/Mediterranean spirituality, strange customs and beliefs of the first Celts that crossed the Danube river, about the power of ancestral oracles in Dionysus honor, lost cities/civilizations and great wars held with glory and pride, northern Carpathian hyperborean mythological quests and pelasg ancient legends… Apart from music there are also some other inspirations like ancient Greek theatre/writings (Sophocles, Aristophanes) or modern plays like Amor Omnia by Mihail Bulgakov for example but with the same structure. This is Apollinic Rites, a perpetual project made by two souls about one great ancient age