You gotta love a band this ambitious, but this is either going to change the world or totally suck (Pink Floyd's The Wall anyone?)
"The music world is rife with bold claims that deliver little. Virgin Black is a band that has historically not only avoided that pitfall, but soared above it. The scope of its latest offering is ambitious almost to the point of absurdity. In a groundbreaking endeavour, Australias premier experimentalists will release three albums simultaneously. Each is a separate entity, but each is also linked through recurring musical themes and artistic motifs. When fully unfurled in all its grandeur, listeners will experience a grandiloquent two and a half hour requiem mass with three stages of evolution.
Requiem pianissimo is an entirely classical album with instrumentation performed by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, and featuring spectacular choral arrangements along with tenor, mezzo-soprano and soprano solo voices. Requiem pianissimo forsakes guitars and drums in favour of the melancholic tragedy and bombastic dynamics of classical composition.
Requiem mezzo forte is where the band joins the orchestra and strikes a balance more reminiscent of previous Virgin Black outings, albeit with greater epic breadth.
The final album, Requiem fortissimo, unleashes a sound infinitely heavier than anything in Virgin Blacks history. While still retaining an air of classical sensibility, it concludes the series with an intense dose of death/doom."
"The music world is rife with bold claims that deliver little. Virgin Black is a band that has historically not only avoided that pitfall, but soared above it. The scope of its latest offering is ambitious almost to the point of absurdity. In a groundbreaking endeavour, Australias premier experimentalists will release three albums simultaneously. Each is a separate entity, but each is also linked through recurring musical themes and artistic motifs. When fully unfurled in all its grandeur, listeners will experience a grandiloquent two and a half hour requiem mass with three stages of evolution.
Requiem pianissimo is an entirely classical album with instrumentation performed by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, and featuring spectacular choral arrangements along with tenor, mezzo-soprano and soprano solo voices. Requiem pianissimo forsakes guitars and drums in favour of the melancholic tragedy and bombastic dynamics of classical composition.
Requiem mezzo forte is where the band joins the orchestra and strikes a balance more reminiscent of previous Virgin Black outings, albeit with greater epic breadth.
The final album, Requiem fortissimo, unleashes a sound infinitely heavier than anything in Virgin Blacks history. While still retaining an air of classical sensibility, it concludes the series with an intense dose of death/doom."
nah, it's just anything with even a hint of a gothic influence causes me to go into a terribleness induced fit.
