Vienna based Paternoster was one of the few Austrian prog rock bands aside from Eela Craig and Kyrie Eleison. They started with a freely improvised soundtrack to an experimental film, which was moderately successful on several film festivals. So a few people wondered, who made the music. A surprising offer from the major label CBS Austria followed. Within two days they recorded their sole self-titled LP in February 1972.
The result was an album with a gloomy mood, very original and underground. Anti-religious, cryptic and morbid, sometimes spacey, melancholic, with a heavy hammond organ and late '60s psychedelic fuzz lead guitar. Sadly, hardly anyone was interested in it, barely 300 albums were sold. The band split and quickly disappeared into obscurity. Over the years, however, it developed into the most sought-after albums in Austrian rock history.
