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OPERA IX
The ultimate in
Black Metal, forget all your Emperor, Cradle of Filth and Dark Funeral,
this Italian fivesome beats them all. Currently consisting of Cadaveria on
Vocals, Ossian on Guitars, Vlad on Bass, Flegias on Drums and Lunaris on
Keyboards their new album `The Black Opera' is the most intense example of
BM I can give. A deep fantasy delve into the secrets of the Occult, the
album has more to offer then just heavy metal music. Cadaveria is at her
most insane vocally and the Guitars have moved on a lot since their
previous album `Sacro Culto' brought more to the foreground giving the
most incredible atmospherics ever heard. Devastating riffs and pounding
drums mixed with the awesome femme vocals make this album for me the best
BM written to date. The content is extraordinary, split into 6 acts the
album dives into the Occult, moving away from the standard verse, chorus,
verse structure and creating a new style that is inevitably going to the
style of the future. The first track, `The First Seal' sets the scene and
the tone of the music to come, heavy to the extreme yet soft and melodic
in sections. Yet tracks like Tempio Magico are totally different yet blend
in perfectly starting off slow and throbbing with Latin Lyrics, then all
of a sudden `E ora Giura' and then the most devastating Guitar riffs on
the album leading beautifully into `The Sixth Seal' the end of the
beginning. The
album grows on you the more times you listen to it and I challenge any BM
lover to hate it, or even not like it a tincy bit. It has everything you
want and more the only problem with it being the length, its 44 mins long
when in reality it needs to be five and a half years long.
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