Carach Angren

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Carach Angren
Seregor (Metal Mean Festival 2009)
Seregor (Metal Mean Festival 2009)
General information
origin Landgraaf , Limburg
Genre (s) Symphonic black metal
founding 2003
Website www.carach-angren.nl
Current occupation
Dennis "Seregor" Droomers
Clemens "Ardek" Wijers
Ivo "Namtar" Wijers

Carach Angren is a symphonic black metal band from the Netherlands , formed by two former members of the band Vaultage. Their music is heavily influenced by orchestral arrangements. All of their studio albums are concept albums , and the demo The Chase Vault Tragedy , as well as the EP Ethereal Existence Veiled are in this style. The lyrics are based on ghost stories , such as The Flying Dutchman . The name Carach Angren means something like "iron throat" in the Sindarin language and describes the way to northwestern Mordor inJRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings .

history

Carach Angren was founded in Landgraaf in 2003 as a side project of two members of the band Vaultage, due to their mutual affinity for legends and black metal . With the project going well, work for Vaultage was scaled back.

The first demo, The Chase Vault Tragedy , was recorded in 2004. In 2005 the EP Ethereal Existence Veiled followed , after which the band was signed by Maddening Media in 2007. Carach Angren then recorded the first album Lammendam and released it in 2008.

In 2010 the album Death Came Through a Phantomship and the "A Declaration of Hate" European tour followed as the opening act for the extreme metal bands Dark Funeral , Zonaria and Nefarium .

18 May 2012 their new album was Where the Corpses Sink Forever on the label Season of Mist released. In September a European tour with Vreid and Mistur followed , with Carach Angren appearing as a replacement for the Viking metal band Einherjer . Another European tour called “The Great Mass Over Europe Tour 2013” ​​followed in May 2013, with Septic Flesh , Fleshgod Apocalypse and Descending , and Carach Angren was also confirmed for the Summer Breeze Festival. On February 6, 2013, a video for the song Funerary Dirge Of A Violinist from the album Where The Corpses Sink Forever was released. About two years later, in February 2015, the band's fourth album to date was released under the title This is no Fairytale .

style

Carach Angren works very strongly with orchestral arrangements and is therefore often compared to Dimmu Borgir . The basis for this, however, is largely classic Black Metal with lots of blast beats and typically played guitar. Seregor's voice mostly moves in the typical Black Metal area, but is multi-faceted and is sometimes mixed with growls typical of Death Metal .

The combination of orchestral elements and black metal gives the music a dark atmosphere and is often associated with films due to the concepts in the works:

“ Composer Ardek seems to have a great passion for dark musical themes and film scores, because once you let the orchestral content sink in, names like Andrew Lloyd Webber, Danny Elfman in connection with Tim Burton or John Williams come to mind here and there Sense. "

- Review of the album Where The Corpses Sink Forever by Patrick Franken

Discography

Chart positions
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Albums
Franckensteina strataemontanus
  DE 80 07/03/2020 (1 week)

Demos

  • 2004: The Chase Vault Tragedy (CDR; self-distribution)

EPs

  • 2005: Ethereal Veiled Existence (CD; self-distribution)

Studio albums

  • 2008: Lammendam (CD / 2x LP ; Maddening Media) LP release via Season of Mist , 2013.
  • 2010: Death Came Through a Phantom Ship (CD / 2xLP; Maddening Media) LP release via Season of Mist, 2013.
  • 2012: Where the Corpses Sink Forever (CD / LP; Season of Mist)
  • 2015: This Is No Fairytale (CD / LP; Season of Mist)
  • 2017: Dance and Laugh Amongst the Rotten (CD / 2xLP / MC ; Season of Mist)
  • 2020: Franckensteina strataemontanus (CD / LP; Season of Mist)

Web links

Commons : Carach Angren  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ summer-breeze.de: Carach Angren on the Summer Breeze. Retrieved February 18, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Carach Angren.nl: Carach Angren publications. Retrieved May 22, 2015 .
  3. ↑ metal.tm: Review of Where The Corpses Sink Forever. Retrieved August 30, 2012 .
  4. ↑ metalnews.de: Review of Where The Corpses Sink Forever. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 4, 2012 ; Retrieved August 30, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.metalnews.de
  5. ↑ metalnews.de: Review of Where The Corpses Sink Forever. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 4, 2012 ; Retrieved August 30, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.metalnews.de
  6. ↑ Chart sources: Germany
  7. ↑ Carach Angren - New Album Title And Release Date Revealed. Retrieved August 30, 2012 .
  8. ↑ Carach Angren - WORLD PREMIERE: NEW TRACK! Retrieved March 11, 2017