It's ten years that Autopsia weren't releasing an album with new tracks. In 2002 and 2005 they released "Colonia" for Staalplaat and "Le Chant De La Nuit" for their own Illuminating Technologies (see the review I did back then) but they were both compilations. THE BERLIN REQUIEM, instead, contains six new tracks composed by Autopsia and Dammerung Orchestra (we already see them on the "Kristallmacht" album, released by Hypnobeat on 1993) which ideally blend the style of the band of those days with their characteristic classical recordings of the beginnings. In this way we have long dissonant piano orchestral suites and piano orchestral suites with electronic arrangements (like on "Funeral music III"). The only exception is the sixth and final track "Sounds for remembering death" which is a ten minutes track made of hissing sounds, distant choirs and a final part with organ and piano. The effect created by the whole CD is of despair and we could call it classical isolationism. THE BERLIN REQUIEM is taking inspiration from Bertold Brecht poem of the same name. Here it is:

Give praise to the night and darkness that close in around you.
Crowd together and look up at the sky,
and see that the days has already slipped away from you.

Give praise from the bottom of your heart that heaven has a bad memory
and no longer knows either your names or your faces,
and that nobody knows that you are still around

Praise the grass and the beasts that live and die beside you.
See how they, too live and, like you, must also die.

Give praise for the cold, the darkness and corruption.
Look up: you do not matter and you can die without worrying about a thing.