Requiem – Fortissimo

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Requiem – Fortissimo
Requiem – Fortissimo cover
Studio album by Virgin Black
Released February 19, 2008
Genre Death/Doom
Length 43:53
Label Flag of the United States The End Records
Flag of Europe Massacre Records
Producer Rowan London, Samantha Escarbe.
Virgin Black chronology
Requiem - Mezzo Forte
(2007)		 Requiem – Fortissimo
(2008)		 Requiem - Pianissimo
(2008)

Requiem – Fortissimo is the third part of Virgin Black's Requiem album trilogy and its second installment since Requiem - Mezzo Forte. The album was released on 19 February 2008. The release date was announced on November 12, 2007. Musically, the album will focus on the death/doom style of the early 1990s British groups such as My Dying Bride and Paradise Lost.

[edit] Recording

The vocalist-keyboardist Rowan London has stated about the album:

“ I should feel a sense of dread offering up something so atypical for us to be interrogated and scrutinized. But the fearlessness that we inhabited while writing Fortissimo and the Requiem series survives to see its unveiling. An album not so much about death as the absence of life; it's damn heavy but its countenance is far more brutal than its sound could ever be. Long live the "death choir." ”

[edit] Track listing

  1. The Fragile Breath - 5:49
  2. In Winters Ash - 7:23
  3. Silent - 6:42
  4. God In Dust - 8:39
  5. Lacrimosa (Gather Me) - 2:21
  6. Darkness - 11:45
  7. Forever - 1:14

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