Hailing from Detroit, and currently living in San Francisco, Oryx Incruentus (Andrea Zerilli) is a one-member 'miniature orchestra.' Over the course of the past six years, Oryx Incruentus has written and completed its first full-length, 26-track album ("Hell is Repetition") featuring a haunting, tormented soundtrack for each circle, round, and bolgia of the classic Medieval poem, Dante's Inferno.

The music is an objective perspective of the settings and forms of punishment/torture specific to each circle of hell, according to Dante. For example: "The Wood Of The Suicides." The cello, being an instrument made of wood, was used exclusively. The cello tracks were multi-layered, and an echo effect was added to give the impression of a deep forest. The string plucks represent the harpies (bird-like creatures) that forcefully peck at the trees and cause them to bleed. The higher pitched cello melodies, sounding 'cut off' at times and quite desperate, represent the voices of the suicides - able to cry out only when they are bleeding. Dante's philosophy: these sinners destroyed their own bodies in life as a final form of expression, so they are condemned to have their tree-transformed bodies destroyed repeatedly as the only way to express themselves.

Most of the music is cello-based, and is accompanied by live instruments and sound effects (keyboard, tambourine, tom drum, electronic percussion, nepenoyka, clavietta, wooden flute, acoustic/electric guitar...) besides a couple of keyboard drum loops (The Heretics & The Marsh of Styx), a toy vocal sample (The Center), and one female Gregorian chant vocal loop (The Descent).

Performances include live cello accompaniment and music from "Hell Is Repetition" to select scenes from the 1911 silent film, "L'Inferno" at the first Dances of Vice Neo-Victorian festival in NYC as an opening act for Rasputina and The Deadfly Ensemble.

"You may find me with a wooden flute in my teeth, my hands on a keyboard, my left foot hitting a tambourine, my right foot holding a book open, and my eyes reading Dante."
- Oryx Incruentus