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WHISPERS
WHISPERS

Mysterious and beguiling heavenly voices in orchestral solitude.

Mick Mercer [The longest-running Goth and Post-Punk writer in the world, UK]

If you've got a taste for haunting atmospheres and epic soundscapes of doom, "Dies Irae" is one blood chilling chill-out record.

Gregory Burkart [FEARnet, USA]

It’s strangely refreshing to hear the apocalypse transmitted with such haunting beauty.

Michael Toland [The Big Takeover Music Magazine, New York, USA]

Dies Irae é a melhor coisa que aconteceu à cena sinfónica e neo-clássica em muito tempo.

Fernando Reis [LOUD! Magazine, Portugal]

Un tombeau des espoirs qui a la beauté d'une cathédrale.

Jessica Boucher-Rétif [Elegy Magazine, France]

"Dies Irae" is from a pure musical point of view still surprising [...] A terrific debut CD maybe revealing the latest sensation from Italy.

DP [Side-Line Magazine, Belgium]

Un pezzo d'Arte semplicemente imprescindibile per chi ama queste preziose sonorità, nonché un nuovo importante motivo d'orgoglio per la scena nazionale: applausi.

Roberto Alessandro Filippozzi
[Inferno Rock Magazine + Darkroom, Italy]

L’espressività e coesione del lavoro è assolutamente perfetta: ogni nota riporta ai perenni, desolati orizzonti di uno spirito travagliato da tormento, rimorso e disperata tristezza.

Mystery Flame
[Rockerilla Magazine, Italy]

Atrium Animae have crafted quite the art form out of their work. It is more in depth listening experience, that simply treasure for pleasure.

Steven Hurst [Glasswerk.co.uk, UK]

Atrium Animae is primarily the work of two incredibly skilled individuals, who fully understand the music that they create.[...] The talent is there, the ability is there.

Matt Rowe [The Morton Report, MusicTAP, UK]

Sin duda alguna, "Dies Irae" no es solamente el álbum neoclásico por excelencia entre todos los que se han publicado en este año 2011, sino que se ha convertido en uno de los trabajos más destacados en toda la historia de la música neoclásica debido al derecho que les otorga la sublime calidad atesorada en esta auténtica joya discográfica.

Lux Atman [Lux Atenea Webzine, Spain]

REVIEWS
REVIEWS

REVIEW: ATRIUM ANIMAE - DIES IRAE
HEATHEN HARVEST
[FEBRUARY 2012]
Started in 2003 as a column ("The Heathen Harvest Music Review") of the "Radical Faeries Digest" print magazine, Heathen Harvest is a reference point of the post-industrial, neoclassical, neofolk movement.

DECEMBER

	REVIEW: ATRIUM ANIMAE - DIES IRAE UNHEIMLICH MAGAZINE [DECEMBER 2011, ARGENTINA] "Dies Irae" is featured in the Top 2011 issue of the excellent Argentinian magazine UnheimlicH Magazine.
	REVIEW: ATRIUM ANIMAE - DIES IRAE CARPE NOCTURNE MAGAZINE [VOL.6 N.3, FALL 2011, UK] Carpe Nocturne Magazine is an on-line publication of Enlightened Darkness Publishing.

NOVEMBER

	INTERVIEW+REVIEW: ATRIUM ANIMAE "FURIA DIVINA" LOUD! MAGAZINE [#128 NOVEMBER 2011, PORTUGAL] LOUD! Magazine is the Portuguese market leader in the metal press, in continuous existence for 10+ years, more than 15 issues published. It is the monthly reference for every Portuguese metalhead, with a national covering in distribution 10.000 circulation.
	REVIEW: ATRIUM ANIMAE - DIES IRAE LUX ATENEA WEBZINE

OCTOBER

REVIEW: ATRIUM ANIMAE - DIES IRAE
RITUAL MAGAZINE
[#48 OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2011, ITALY]
:RITUAL: is the first and only official Italian magazine dedicated to the dark, goth, electro, industrial, ambient, black metal and avantgarde music, scene and culture. Out every 2 months in 25.000 copies.

SEPTEMBER

	REVIEW: ATRIUM ANIMAE - DIES IRAE ELEGY MAGAZINE [#70 SEPTEMBER 2011, FRANCE] Elegy is the first French magazine dedicated to the dark and alternative music and culture. Created in 1998, this bimestrial magazine offer interviews of bands but also of painters, photographers, writers, directors...
	REVIEW: ATRIUM ANIMAE - DIES IRAE TERRORIZER MAGAZINE [#214 SEPTEMBER 2011, London, UK] Terrorizer is the world's most authoritative extreme music magazine since 1993.
	REVIEW: ATRIUM ANIMAE - DIES IRAE ASCENSION MAGAZINE [ISSUE 28 - AUTUMN 2011, ITALY]
	REVIEW: ATRIUM ANIMAE - DIES IRAE VER SACRUM [SEPTEMBER 2011, ITALY]

AUGUST

	REVIEW: ATRIUM ANIMAE - DIES IRAE THE BIG TAKEOVER MUSIC MAGAZINE [AUGUST 2011, NEW YORK, USA] The Big Takeover is a bi-annual music magazine published out of New York City since 1980 with most recent issues coming in around 200 glossy pages.
	REVIEW: ATRIUM ANIMAE - DIES IRAE SIDE-LINE MAGAZINE [AUGUST 2011, BELGIUM] Started in 1989 as a print magazine, Side-Line is a daily updated news site on gothic, electro and industrial music, reaching 65.000 music fans per day.

JULY

	REVIEW: ATRIUM ANIMAE - DIES IRAE ROCKERILLA MAGAZINE [JULY 2011, ITALY] Rockerilla is a legendary Italian rock magazine, printed, born in 1978.
	REVIEW: ATRIUM ANIMAE - DIES IRAE INFERNO ROCK MAGAZINE + DARKROOM MAGAZINE [JUNE + JULY 2011, ITALY] Inferno Rock is a magazine that covers the international metal and dark musical scene.
	REVIEW: ATRIUM ANIMAE - DIES IRAE SONIC SEDUCER MUSIKMAGAZIN [JULY 2011, GERMANY] Sonic Seducer is a German music magazine that covers goth, wave, EBM and electronic music and culture. The magazine is noted for organizing the annual M'era Luna Festival.
	REVIEW: ATRIUM ANIMAE - DIES IRAE ROSA SELVAGGIA - OBSCURE MAGAZINE [JULY 2011, ITALY]

JUNE

	REVIEW: ATRIUM ANIMAE - DIES IRAE FEARNET [JUNE 2011, USA] FEARnet is a cable channel, website and Video on Demand television service owned by Horror Entertainment LLC, a joint venture between Comcast, Lions Gate Entertainment, and Sony Pictures Entertainment.
	REVIEW: ATRIUM ANIMAE - DIES IRAE GOTHIC PARADISE [JUNE 2011, CA, USA]
	REVIEW: ATRIUM ANIMAE - DIES IRAE GLASSWERK.CO.UK [JUNE 2011, UK]
	REVIEW: ATRIUM ANIMAE - DIES IRAE NEUWELT MUSIC [JUNE 2011, IRELAND] Neuwelt Musicis an Irish Music Magazine based in Dublin. It is Ireland's one and only Electro, Industrial and Dark Music Webzine.
	REVIEW: ATRIUM ANIMAE - DIES IRAE THE MORTON REPORT [JUNE 2011, UK] The Morton Report is the online magazine created by A.D. Morton, a journalist, a notable writer and biographer, known for the biography of Princess Diana.
	REVIEW: ATRIUM ANIMAE - DIES IRAE MUSICTAP [JUNE 2011, UK]
	REVIEW: ATRIUM ANIMAE - DIES IRAE ONDA ROCK [JUNE 2011, ITALY]

MAY

	REVIEW: ATRIUM ANIMAE - DIES IRAE MICK MERCER MYSTERIOUS AND BEGUILING HEAVENLY VOICES IN ORCHESTRAL SOLITUDE [MAY 2011, UK] Mick Mercer is the longest-running Goth and Post-Punk writer in the world. He wrote regularly for the British music weekly Melody Maker. He has had numerous books about Goth and related subjects published.
	REVIEW: ATRIUM ANIMAE - DIES IRAE SOUNDS BEHIND THE CORNER [MAY 2011, ITALY]
	REVIEW: ATRIUM ANIMAE - DIES IRAE SPECTRA - DECADENT MUSIC WEBSITE [MAY 2011, ITALY]
	REVIEW: ATRIUM ANIMAE - DIES IRAE KOGAIONON - UNDERGROUND MUSIC MAGAZINE [MAY 2011, ROMANIA] Still at Projekt the duo's ATRIUM ANIMAE album appears, in translation “The Soul's Gate”. The Italians took as landmark DEAD CAN DANCE's “Spleen And Ideal” and spectacularly march on the Neoclassical dimension, transforming their music into a desolate journey from a hopeless apocalyptic scenario... with symphonic strokes but also cleric ones, these ethereal sonorities could easily satisfy the cravings of the ones keen on STOA, ARVO PART or ARCANA. Superb!