The Heruka project's first inception was in the year 2000 when Adranor (Vocals/Bass Guitar/Drum Programming) and Valdemar (Vocals/Guitars) got together with the purpose of recreating through extreme music, in an epicurean conception, sensations and moods aroused within them by the ancient medieval village called Erice. "Doxa Epicurea", the first demo, was recorded between May and June 2001 and consisted of 5 tracks. This obsessive and gloomy recording, was meant to show the insignificance of single lives before the greatness of natural upheavals. At the end of 2001, Valdemar left the band and Adranor decided to continue by himself, starting to put on paper new ideas in order to produce new songs.

The mini cd entitled “Leggenda” (Legend), a first in a series of connected concepts, was released in february 2005, it contained 6 tracks and it's about 24 minutes long. The lyrics (in italian) deal with the famous sicilian plac, albeit put in a wider context with oniric inserts so that everything is within a spatial/temporal vision entirely created by Adranor. After some live shows to promote Leggenda with Adranor (Vocal/Bass) and Moha (Guitar) work started on the sequel of "Leggenda" with plans to release a full lenght cd but due to various reasons the project was put on hold

In the end of 2016 Adranor and Nemuri Shi met and together decided to start working on the new material and resurrect the concept, this time with a full band. So, Adranor (Guitar) and Nemuri Shi (Drums) completed the new line-up recruiting Nekrom (Vocals) and Moha (Bass) and begun rehearsing the old material together with some new songs already completed which will bring the concept and story of "Leggenda" to new levels. As soon as the band got together it was agreed to update the old material in a way more fitting for a full band and with all the lyrics translated in English.

Through 2017 the band completed the work on all the material and started the recording and the mixing of the album which ended in December. In June 2018 the two labels Vacula and Narcoleptica in co-production have released the album "Deception's End" both in digital and cd format. The album is composed by 16 tracks.

At the moment the band has started working on new material for a possible split release and is going to promote the album with some live shows

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