After the smooth "Mezzo Forte", this can be shocking experience for some. While staying in the same concept, "Fortissimo" shows the darker side of the band.
Extremely slow death/doom (or funeral doom) style and brutal growls are the base of this record; orchestra, choir and soprano are supplemental here, helping to build majestical atmosphere, anyway they are still taking this album to higher levels. Some of the beautiful melodies of its predecessor are present also here - "Requiem, Kyrie" theme that opened last album is used at the end of the record here. But if the dominant feeling of "Mezzo Forte" was sorrowful beauty, here it is more likely desperate darkness.
Some people may like "Mezzo Forte" and not like "Fortissimo", few others contrarily. For me, I find both releases extraordinary, one supplementing the other (in fact there should be three parts of Requiem, regrettably "Piano" was never released).
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