![]() ![]() ![]() Opening piece Requiem Aeternum employs the ghosts of Wagner and Mahler to get it’s point across, and second track Dies Irae brings to mind Benjamin Britten with it’s muted use of single voices and sorrowful instrumentation. Metal bands often come off at half cock with this sort of stuff, ideas spiked by lack of finance or defeated by their own over ambition – but not so Virgin Black, and especially not on this fully-orchestral third instalment of the Requiem. Melding full-blown orchestral music to metal is of course nothing new – and it wasn’t in 2007 when Virgin Black started this journey, either – but it has to be said it has rarely been done quite as well by anyone else entering this particular field of combat. The third part of Australian neoclassical metal act Virgin Black’s incredibly ambitious Requiem project is here – only eleven years after part one appeared and a mere ten after part two was released – and very interesting it is too. ![]()
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