Märchen (fairytales in German) is an album based on the number 7 and with the common theme of revenge in the songs. The seventh story told by Revo on CD, seven stories that end tragically, seven tracks are based on the seven deadly sins (gluttony, greed, envy, sloth, pride, lust, wrath in the chronological order of the songs that tell them) explained through some fairy tales, some famous, like Hansel and Gretel, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Bluebeard. There are also 28 bonus tracks of 7 seconds each, a total of 77 minutes for the entire CD. Another curiosity: the song titles in kanji character (vertically from right to left) in the back of the CD creates a form of church like the one on the cover. All songs are especially beautiful, among all the ones I prefer are: 宵闇の唄 (Yoiyami no Uta), where there is a short insert of Ode to Joy (written by Friedrich Schiller) from the 9th Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven, which is the preamble to the later stories; 火刑の魔女 (Kakei no Majo), which talks about the gluttony with the fairytale of Hansel and Gretel; 薔薇の塔で眠る姫君 (Bara no Tou de Nemuru Himegimi), which tells the sin of pride with the fairytale of Sleeping Beauty; 磔刑の聖女 (Takkei no Seijo) about the wrath with the story of the kill of Saint Solicitous (Die heilige Frau Kümmernis of the Grimm brothers). In all the songs are very beautiful the female vocals. Great rock opera, great Revo. It's my first album of Sound Horizon and I was very impressed by the beauty of the music and of the whole work. Unusual is the booklet, with texts and drawings, which has the shape of a small book.
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