What a pleasant surprise. The other Virgin Black material I've heard was very symphonic and quite gothic-influenced. This album tones those elements way, way down, dials up the doom, and replaces the clean male vocals with gutturals, resulting in a very nice doom/death disc. As with the other parts of the Requiem trilogy, they recorded with a full orchestra, although since the symphonic aspects of the music have been scaled back, I really only took great notice during "In Winters Ash" and the string ending of "God in Dust." The choir backing vocals even seem more prevalent than the orchestral stuff.
The style here is not as unique as the band's older material, but that's no problem, as I personally prefer this old Peaceville 3-influenced sound much more.
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