Devil Doll were an Italian-Slovenian experimental rock band formed in 1987 by Mario Panciera, known as “Mr. Doctor”. They achieved professional recognition for a musical style incorporating classical and Slavic folk music, originally performing with two lineups based in Venice and Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. Their recording career began with The Mark of the Beast (1988), a work of which only one copy was pressed. Their discography includes the studio recordings The Girl Who Was… Death (1989), inspired by the television series The Prisoner, and Eliogabalus (1990). In 1991, they combined their lineups and released the studio recording Sacrilegium (1992). They followed this with the soundtrack and extended version The Sacrilege of Fatal Arms (1993). Following a studio fire during the recording of Dies Irae (1996), they re-recorded the work with the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra and soprano Norina Radovan. The ensemble became inactive in 1997.
