Draco Hypnalis

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After founding now established Slovak death metal band NOMENMORTIS in 1993 Ivos moves to Zlín, Czech Republic. He starts looking for new bandmates and in 1995 he meets guitarist Mira and a drummer who is later kicked out for not showing up for recording. Since then the band has used and skillfully developed the sound of automatic drums later accompanied also by keyboards. In spring 1999 the newly recruited singer Martin brings the band name DRACO HYPNALIS.

The line-up record their first demo in April 2000. The tape “Nobleness Of The Storm-Gatherer” is released as a split with techno-death ROMANTIC LOVE. First shows follow including successful appearance at the Nuclear Storm festival. The recording is also highly praised in underground music press as well as major Czech music magazines.

In April 2001 the band prepares a 4-track promo and plays live heavily, including another big festival Brutal Assault. By 2002 the band spreads more than 1000 copies of their tape and promo recordings, yet do not find a suitable record label to support their new material. The singer Martin leaves the band replaced by Lukás – formerly a drummer with ROMANTIC LOVE.

In October 2002 the trio records songs for their first album „Weavers of Unrest“. Originally to be released by Italian Pulsar Light Rec. it is eventually released as late as 2005 by Czech Élysion Music.

In the meantime the band present their material live, also abroad, e.g. at Polish Merciless East Fest. In autumn 2004 the band hit the road on Euro tour with Latvian NEGLECTED FIELDS.

Upon the release of the album the band continues playing live, including a festival and minitour in Poland again and on Czech-Slovak ”Mortal Storms Of Autumn Tour” with Slovak OBLITERATE and MIZAR. The last mentioned tour features the appearance of guest singer Petr (ex-INFANTICIDE), who later becomes a regular band member. During the composing process in 2006 he also takes up guitar, which means DRACO HYPNALIS now perform with two guitars.

In the end of spring 2007 the band leaves for the studio – namely LGM Studio of SCENERY mastermind Lerry. The release is agreed upon with Zero Budget Productions. The second DRACO HYPNALIS CD entitled „Imagination“ is officially released on 11.9.2007. Right after that we were going to 2-weeks "Brotherhood Of Autumn Equinox Tour" with our Polish Friends CLIMATE. We played shows in Poland, western Ukraine, Slovakia, finishing the tour in Czech Republic, our homeland. Until end of the year we had a few more shows in SK and CZ and we also took part in finals of "Guitarists Meeting", a multi-genre music festival in Zlín. During year 2008 we played about 30 shows, most of them as autumn touring in Czech, Slovak and Transcarpathian lands with our colleagues MARTYRIUM CHRISTI under the moniker "When Autumn Storms Come Tour 2008". Our other successes included our show at Ukrainian Metal Heads Mission Festival in autonomy republic of Crimea and our next show at "Guitarists Meeting", this time in Ostrava, where we play probably as the first metal band of more extreme kind. In April/May 2009 we planned to finish our promo activities for actual CD with "Grand Finale of Imagination Tour", but in the end of August we had luck to play also the next, solely foreign "Progressive Machined Symphony Tour". It started in Poland, continued to Belarusian Metal Crowd Festival and back home we are returning via Poland and Slovakia. All was done with our "wheelmachine colleagues" DUOBETIC HOMUNKULUS and our label boss. After that we started to work on our 3rd studio album "Balance Of Moments". All recording process was done during spring and summer 2010. But, because of enormous amount of various problems and countless serial of accidents we were forced to delay its release before going to our Ukrainian "Carpathian - Donbass Operation Tour 2010" in September - probably for spring 2011. Even in following year we were pursued by various unpleasant obstacles like several relocations of apartments as welll as rehearsal room, change of not that good employer and the next round of almost endless working/educating program... Despite of all these troubles that delayed our efforts quite often, we successfully completed the works on our 3rd album with final mix and mastering in professional studio of Martin Linda in Prague. Thanks to our patient label Zero Budget Production - is our CD "Balance of Moments" finally released on August 14, 2012.

Besides the regular version on CD, the band also offers the instrumental keyboard-only version of the album "Orchestral Imagination". Available on CDr (with cover) directly from the band.

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Members:

Mira - guitars, synthesizer, programming

Petr - vocals, guitars

Ivos - bass guitar

"Imagination"
[CD 2007]

"Weavers of Unrest"
[CD 2005]

"Nobleness of the Storm-Gatherer"
[MC 2000 - split w/ ROMANTIC LOVE]