Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice

Infobox Album
Name = Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice
Type = studio
Artist = Deathspell Omega


Released = 2004
Recorded =
Genre = Black metal
Length = 1:17:47
Label = Norma Evangelium Diaboli
Producer =
Reviews =
Last album = "Inquisitors of Satan"
(2003)
This album = "Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice"
(2004)
Next album = "Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum"
(2007)

"Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice" is a 2004 album by the black metal band Deathspell Omega. (The album title is Latin for "If you seek His monument, look around you.")

Musically, it represents a massive departure in sound from the band's previous work, both for the increase in recording quality and for the pursuit of far more avant-garde and experimental directions than the band's previous work. The album is also intentionally structured in the manner of 1970s double albums, with each LP side opening with a "prayer" (side four, which opens with "Carnal Malefactor," being an arguable exception).

"Drink the Devil's Blood" is a re-recording of a track which appeared on the band's first album, "Infernal Battles".

Track listing

# "First Prayer" – 5:44
# "Sola Fide I" – 5:14
# "Sola Fide II" – 7:53
# "Second Prayer" – 4:41
# "Blessed Are the Dead Whiche Dye in the Lorde" – 5:47
# "Hétoïmasia" – 7:08
# "Third Prayer" – 3:57
# "Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice" – 6:32
# "Odium Nostrum" – 4:46
# "Jubilate Deo (O Be Joyful in the Lord)" – 6:08
# "Carnal Malefactor" – 11:45
# "Drink the Devil's Blood" – 4:32
# "Malign Paradigm" – 3:40