Jacula

{{Short description|Italian rock band}}

{{about|the rock band|the comic book|Jacula (fumetti)}}

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Jacula

| image =

| caption = Antonio Bartoccetti (Jacula and Antonius Rex leader)

| image_size = 200

| background = group_or_band

| origin = Milan, Italy

| genre = {{Hlist|Occult rock{{cite news |last1=Lawson |first1=Dom |title=Occult rock: do you believe in black magic? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/nov/24/occult-rock-black-widow-ghost |newspaper=The Guardian |accessdate=16 June 2018|date=2011-11-24 }}|gothic rock{{cite web |url=https://magazin.amboss-mag.de/jacula-pre-viam-okkult-gothic-rock/ |title=JACULA "Pre Viam" (Okkult / Gothic / Rock) |last= |first= |date=March 14, 2014 |publisher=Ambross |language=German |access-date=2022-10-13}}|progressive rock{{Cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/vampirebookencyc00melt | url-access=registration | page=[https://archive.org/details/vampirebookencyc00melt/page/387 387] | quote=jacula progressive rock. |title = The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead| publisher=Visible Ink Press |isbn = 9781578592814|last1 = Gordon Melton|first1 = J.|year = 2011}}}}

| years_active = late '60-2017{{Cite web | url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jacula-mn0000719717/biography | title=Jacula | Biography & History| website=AllMusic}}

| label = {{Hlist|Gnome|Black Widow}}

| spinoffs = Antonius Rex

| website = [http://www.antoniusrex.com/ www.antoniusrex.com]

| current_members = {{ubl |Antonio Bartoccetti |Rexanthony |Florian Gorman |Monika Tasnad}}

| past_members = {{ubl |Franz Porthenzy |Doris Norton |Charles Tiring}}

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Jacula was an Italian rock band founded in the late '60 in Milan as an experiment by Antonio Bartoccetti, Doris Norton, organist Charles Tiring and medium Franz Porthenzy.{{cite web|url=http://www.antoniusrex.com/jacula_biography.html|title=Jacula Biography|access-date=2008-06-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303204224/http://www.antoniusrex.com/jacula_biography.html|archive-date=2016-03-03|url-status=dead}}

Jacula's music was considered innovative for the time in progressive circles but considered dark and strange by most fans and analysts of the genre, especially in an era that included the development of groups such as Pink Floyd, Genesis and Gentle Giant, bands which were the basis of the new progressive rock scene.{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}}

Because the band was experimental, and had been labeled by founder Antonio Bartoccetti as a youth mistake{{Citation needed|date=April 2008}}, Jacula's discography is relatively small.

The group completed three albums, Tardo Pede In Magiam Versus in 1972, Pre Viam in May, 2011 and In Cauda Semper Stat Venenum, which release date is still debated.The band claims the LP was released in 1969 but no one else has knowledge of this version, while the so-called reissue in 2001 is possibly the first edition. No concrete evidence has yet surfaced on the first release date.

Tardo Pede In Magiam Versus featured Fiamma Dello Spirito's vocals, with a sound influenced by bands of the Italian underground scene such as Le Orme{{Citation needed|date=April 2008}}. In the 1970s, Jacula changed their name to Antonius Rex, maintaining the same lineup, until the release of Pre Viam.