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Notes: "The Requiem" is a slow fade in, industrial sounds and echoes transition into piano and vocal harmony, then a vocoded female, "God Save Us Everyone" which I've heard on the single towards the end of the album. Progresses into "The Radiance", very industrial techno sound, Oppenheimer's "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds" sample dominates the short track. Fades out, first actual ...

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