Vanessa Funke - Requiem (2025)
Requiem is a haunting and deeply personal descent into emotional darkness, where Vanessa Funke strips away pretenses to confront grief, isolation, and identity with unflinching honesty. The music balances mournful melodies, slow, doomy riffs, and sparse black-metal atmospheres—sometimes echoing in silence before crashing into weighty weight. Her vocal delivery shifts between whispering melancholy and anguished cries, lending each track an intimate edge that feels less like performance and more like confession. Though the album is uncompromising in its sorrow, moments of fragile beauty (particularly in tracks like “Broken”) brace the listener with glimpses of light amid the shadows. Ultimately, Requiem is not an easy listen, but it is a necessary one—a requiem in both name and spirit, offering space for mourning, reflection, and catharsis.
Genre: Melodic death metal
Country: Germany
Final Verdict: 71% (Very Good Album)
Yearly Ranking: 44th / 666
Highlight: Gone
Made me think of:
Agalloch
October Falls
My Dying Bride
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