Headline : Hozier Unearths Devotional Epic ‘Hymn to Virgil’: ‘I Didn’t Think It Was Worth Releasing’

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In Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, the author describes Virgil and Dante’s grueling journey through hell and purgatory as they encounter horrifying creatures and weather revolting conditions. They develop an enduring sense of trust and care between one another throughout the poem. But when they reach heaven, Virgil is barred from entering with Dante. After all that, they must say goodbye. It’s a dissatisfying ending — one that the singer-songwriter (and Dante enthusiast) Hozier reimagines on the devotional epic “Hymn to Virgil.”

The choir-backed record considers an alternate conclusion in which Dante refuses to abandon Virgil at the gates, knowing all that they endured together. “I wouldn’t be seen walking through any door/Some place that you’re not welcome to/You stare at the faces smiling from somewhere warm/From somе place the sunlight won’t come through,” Hozier sings. Parts of the record are warped and distorted, sounding almost as though his voice is melting as he declares: “I would burn the world to bring some heat to you.”

“Hymn to Virgil” arrives on Unreal Unearth: Unending, the third iteration of Hozier’s most recent studio album. The record almost suffered a similar fate to that of Virgil in the poem he’s describing. Earlier this year, Hozier told Rolling Stone that he never planned to release the record — and more specifically, that he “didn’t think it was worth releasing.”

“Second-guessing creeps into you after a while,” he explained in a previously unreleased portion of the interview. “I was writing ‘Hymn to Virgil’ for a long, long time. It was one of the early, early songs that I was trying to approach in the [Unreal Unearth] sessions in 2020 back in Wicklow, trying to get that idea into a song.”

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