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nfopuhfxir
My biggest concern about listening to Deathspell Omega is that it will make people think I’m smart. I’m really not lol. I just enjoy the music
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Cassandra-Leo
Most of the shouts are in the version with v's (which, for reasons I explain below, is the incorrect tag unless you're utilising hideous all-caps tagging).
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Cassandra-Leo
Yes, they represent the same letter, but it looked like our V in the script that evolved into our uppercase letters, but like our u in the script that became our lowercase letters. Seeing lowercase v in Latin titles therefore looks ahistorical if you're familiar with written Roman text. That's fine if they're simply replaced with whatever sounds the letters should represent, since that's just a matter of convenience for those unfamiliar with linguistic history, but it looks awful to have u's changed to v's if they're not even written in uppercase (i.e., VIRVS, VIRUS, Virus, virus, and uirus are all fine; Virvs and Uirus are not). Strangely, DsO seem to have split the difference on their Bandcamp, using u's in the album title and v's in song titles, but in the vinyl box set and the CD booklet, they're all u's, and they're all V's on the back of the CD, suggesting the V's were a typographical choice for historical verisimilitude.
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Cassandra-Leo
Strangely, the band is very inconsistent about the capitalisation of its titles in the CD booklet: First Prayer; Sola Fide I & II; Second prayer; Blessed are the dead whiche dye in the Lorde; Hétoïmasia; Third prayer; Si monumentum Requires, Circumspice.; Odium Nostrum; Jubilate Deo (O be joyful in the Lord); Carnal malefactor; Drink the Devil's Blood; Malign Paradigm. Your guess is as good as mine as to why the inconsistency.
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Cassandra-Leo
Right. The actual Latin alphabet had V as the capital and u as the lowercase; the letters we think of as V and U were both written this way. The correct title convention for Latin titles is intended to be to capitalise only the first word and proper nouns, so “Jubilate Deo” would be correct, but “Si monumentum requires, circumspice” is the correct capitalisation for the title. That said, hardly anyone ever actually follows that convention and usually treats Latin titles as though they were in English, and I’ve given up trying to correct them; the V/u thing still irks me, though.
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patisawesome121
Took me awhile to get into this particular release, but it's a glorious album.
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