| Virgin Black commence weaving their elegant music with subtly modulated strings, sparkling and glinting in the moonlight of their impassioned sound, the vocals enter - both agonized cries and deep, heartfelt calls towards the skies, infernal choirs and lone arias as if the singer was standing, lost, on a cliff on a windswept moor, facing only darkness and the spiraling vertigo of madness - and then the guitars launch into their grand procession, scorching waves of fire and gray lead-heavy veins of Gothic granite, a melancholy that spreads across the horizon until the grim march forward can no longer be denied. Bonebreaking rhythms, swiftly hit like sniper commands, the swirling wash of glass cymbals, and a snapping, St. Vitus's waltz begins, baroque in its ornamental brocade, bordering the sound and piercing it every half second in a lurching, grotesque danse macabre. A truly astonishing release that would please those that enjoy Devil Doll, Sisters Of Mercy, Paradise Lost, Arcturus, Nick Cave, Enigma, etc... TRACK LISTING: SOMBRE ROMANTIC Opera de Romanci i. Stare ii. Embrace Walk Without Limbs Of Your Beauty Drink the Midnight Hymn Museum of Iscariot i. Stagnation ii. Death iii. Procession Lamenting Kiss Weep for Me I Sleep with the Emperor A Poet's Tears of Porcelain |
