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Strix - Maledicte In Aeternum

Opera IX

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Released: Mar 2012
Label: Agonia Records
This creepy-crawly Italian black metal album's title Google-translates as "Owl: Cursed in Eternity" -- what a hoot! Opera IX, said to be symphonic goth pagans, are artsiest and most intriguing in their opening prologue (Gregorian chants, big bells, inverted Latin words) and eight-minute closer "Historia Nocturna" (almost coherently composed, from nearly grooving start to folkish end.) Between, it's your usual random zombie-moaned and demon-screeched blood sacrifice, with sporadic rock-derived guitar lines, Laibach-like brassiness, and classical gassiness lost deep in the mulch.
- CHUCK EDDY
Opera IX - Strix - Maledicte In Aeternum 2012-04-13
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    2:34
    Strix, the Prologue (Intro)
    Strix, the Prologue (Intro)
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    6:24
    1313 (Eradicate the False Idols)
    1313 (Eradicate the False Idols)
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    Dead Tree Ballad
    Dead Tree Ballad
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    3:31
    Vox In Rama
    Vox In Rama
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    Vox In Rama (Pt.2)
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    Mandragora
    Mandragora
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    Eyes In the Well
    Eyes In the Well
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    Earth and Fire
    Earth and Fire
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    Ecate the Ritual (Intro)
    Ecate the Ritual (Intro)
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    Ecate
    Ecate
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    Nemus Tempora Maleficarum
    Nemus Tempora Maleficarum
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    Historia Nocturna
    Historia Nocturna
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