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**Requiem Eternam**

   Here is one that has seemed to grow on me after awhile - Switzerland�s Requiem Eternam.  The band mixes a sort of heavy Goth Metal with some insidiously heavy Doom Metal and touches of gore to create something that comes out on the good side of pretty good.
The album Songs for another Age is full of deeply disturbing images that take root in the heaviness - painting a picture of pure darkness with shadings of hopeless grey.  The result is a album that grows on you, and shatters what little serenity you have in your mind..

I gave this a 7 the first time I had reviewed it, now I must up it to about a 8.5 or so.  Bleakness is an art, and Requiem Eternam is the master artist.  The album is not recorded perfect... by in hindsight... it helps in some ways.