DIES IRAE

Heavy ? Yes, this music is quite heavy. Grotesque dark cabaret ? Yep, checked and confirmed. So what's so good about this music that some are excited enough to give 5 stars and others do not understand and rates with 1 ? Probably the atmosphere. You have to like certain kind of entertainment, certain style that accompanies this. I like old (ancient?) movies, these silent films that may seem funny to some (people in "slow motion", scary monsters that aren't scary to us anymore, when we saw Alien, Scream, I don't know, The Ring for example and other blood flicks like zombie films) and I don't deny that at times, this is just ridiculous for someone from this "age", but let's be honest. I feel the desire to pay them respect. Like youngsters should do to elders. Music is strange, optimistic, nice guitar solos are switching its place with piano backed, spoken voice dominated "songs". Quite a lot instruments, but I mostly hear piano and strings. Some may have problem with getting accustomed (instantly, without time to prepare) to "dead" & "live" passages. Plugged and unplugged working hand to hand, struggling which of them will rule over this dark land. Yes, quite dark it seems.

The questions are: Is this combination good enough to be interesting, be good and even work at all ?

4(-), for the idea that is quite remarkable. Anyway, I like it, even some parts are terrible. Not necessarily spoken ones.