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Dies Irae - Finale Tranquillamente - Cantus Pro Defunctis

1,878 views · Published 27 November 2010 · 12:49 · Indexed 9 October 2026

Channel: Breath of the Wild · 2010 · Music

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How a band like this never got signed is one of life's mysteries. Such is the compelling, all consuming magnificence of this demo. To imagine one bands legacy fading in some cassette in the bottom of a drawer is somewhat a crime against music.
Thankfully the demo has been re-released by Paniac Records. [A Belgian label I know nothing at all about], and yet unfortunately, only on Vinyl and in a limited quality.
Here we find a medieval splattered Black Metal gem, a fusion of exquisitely composed instrumentals, and grand keyboard orchestration. The intro is four minutes, and by this time you have forgotten anything Black Metal is going to occur, and then the sweeping
keyboards flow though the raw guitar strum and sharp drum work. The vocals are blatantly broken English, grizzled utterances, and to the untrained ear, completely brutalize the otherwise beautiful music. Here we have that eccentric extravagance more accessible though the works of Tartaros. The sound is good, and the completely over the top orchestration lifts the thrashing Black Metal rage into a bewitching trance like state. This band take the symphonic element and amplify it tenfold.

Dies Irae is a norwegian black metal band formed in 1994, obscure black metal influenced by classical music. This band released one very obscure demo to a few people and very shortly after was put to rest.

All the pictures of the video are images of cemetary of Staglieno (Genoa), Italy.

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