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Rowan London - Vocals, piano, and keyboard
Samantha Escarbe - Lead guitar, cello
Grayh - Bass, vocals
Luke Faz - Drums
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Requiem Fortissimo
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Genre: Gothic
Origin: Australia
Label: The End Records
Status: Active
Biography
Traditionally, a requiem is performed as a funeral rite, and is a composition associated with the expression of grief and mourning. Positioning themselves as part of this ongoing musical tradition, Virgin Black have composed a work of mournful splendour. On Requiem, the experience of sorrow and anguish is transmuted into genuine emotional insight. This is music characterised by an emotional abandonment so intense it effects a transcendence-through-suffering; deeply harrowing yet utterly revelatory.
Virgin Black’s 2001 debut, Sombre Romantic, was heralded as a landmark opus of operatic dark metal. It was a meticulously crafted album in which principal songwriters Rowan London
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