Requiem – Fortissimo

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 February 19, 2008.[1] Metal Storm voted Requiem - Fortissimo as The Best Doom Metal Album of 2008.[2]

Requiem – Fortissimo
Studio album by
Virgin Black
ReleasedFebruary 19, 2008
GenreDeath/doom
Length43:53
LabelThe End Records
Massacre Records
ProducerRowan London, Samantha Escarbe
Virgin Black chronology
Requiem - Mezzo Forte
(2007)		 Requiem – Fortissimo
(2008)		 Requiem - Pianissimo
(2018)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Chronicles of Chaos8/10 link
Exclaim!link
Metal Storm92/100 link
Metal Sucks4/5 link
Rockfreaks.net51/2/10 link
Sputnikmusic link

The music on this album is in a death/doom style reminiscent of early 1990s British groups like My Dying Bride and Paradise Lost.

Recording

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".

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

References
  1. Laura Taylor (19 February 2008). "Requiem Fortissimo - Exclaim.ca review". Exclaim.ca. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
  2. Metal Storm The Best Doom Metal Album
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