Ars Macabra was formed in 1998 by Sathor and Nero Baratro rispectively on guitar and bass.
The idea was to play the more extreme and fastest black metal music in Italy.
After a whole summer of reharshing and songs writing they found the help of Abyss on drums to complete the songs structure.
After few weeks also Azrael joined the band on vocals and the line up was ready to work on the forthcoming demo.

They went into studio to record a first rough demo-cd of 7 songs of pure hate and blasphemy during November 1998 but unsatisfied with the sound-production they decided to re-record the demo on a different recording studio, the new opus was conceived during June-July 1999 with the adding of two new tracks, “Iter in obscuritates mentis” was finally released as their official debut demo.

After the realization of ”I.I.O.M” Sathor and Nero Baratro remained as the only line up of Ars Macabra.

Ars Macabra held a couple of local gigs in Rome and after the realization of their debut CD they created new songs improving and moving toward a further extreme style of black metal.

In September they had 3 different offers from Italian labels, in the end they took an agreement with Elegy records and in January 2001 they signed a contract for two productions with this same label.

They partecipated on a compilation “Wild compilation vol.2” with the song “On the art of suffering” out in June 2001
Their official debut CD “Daemonolatria Hypnotica” will be out in September and will be around 40 min.long, signing a step forward a more fast and extreme black metal that no Italian band has been ever able to create.
The new music is introducing new industrial and electronic elements blended with dark and obsessive atmospheres, to challenge new fields and extremities of music, soul and experience.