Virgin Black are quite unique with regards to the music they create, and so do not fit well with any attempt at categorization. The music territory that Virgin Black inhabit in is as dark and uncharted as the name implies. But I recognize the Australians' effort and maybe fans of the genre will like it. What fans of the genre take for beauty I see only nonstop boredom. This style of Metal just doesn't do anything for me. You listen to it and it doesn't make you listen again, ever! But there is just no way, in the end, that this is any good in the end. Truth is that the album has very little Gothic Metal in it, it's more like something Therion would do, more Symphonic Metal with Doom Metal blasts I guess. The guy who decided that it was a good idea to join Heavy Metal with classical music, 'erudite' singers (read erudite with a lot of irony) and the whole 'Goticity' thing should burn at the stake.īut I must say that "Requiem: Mezzo Forte" is not the worst record I've ever heard in this genre (the title goes to anything Leaves' Eyes has ever recorded), being very well produced and full of interesting moments.
Gothic Metal for me is the most unbearable atrocity that music, and Metal, has ever invented. those words alone should have been enough for me to know I should move away from such a band like Virgin Black (what a fantastic and original name, right!?)!
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