Darkness (album)

darkness
Studio album by E Nomine
Publication (s)	January 21, 2002
Label (s)	Polydor / Zeitgeist
Format (s)	CD (+ DVD )
Genre (s)	Monumental Dance
Title (number)	28 (+ 4)
running time	70:32 (+ 17:44)
production	Christian Weller ( Executive Producer ) Fritz Graner (Executive Producer) David Brunner (Executive Producer)
Studio (s)	Ramses Studio, Berlin
chronology The Testament (1999) darkness The Prophecy (2003)
Single releases October 29, 2001 midnight February 11, 2002 The animal in me (Wolfen)

Finsternis is the second studio album from the German music project E Nomine . It was released on January 21, 2002 on the Polydor and Zeitgeist labels as standard and limited editions, including DVD .

production

The album was produced by E-Nomine members Christian Weller and Fritz Graner and licensee David Brunner . All three also acted as executive producers . It was recorded in the Ramses studio in Berlin .

Involved speakers

The lyrics of the songs on the album are spoken by ten well-known German voice actors. These are Christian Brückner (voice of Robert De Niro and Gary Oldman ), Joachim Kerzel (voice of Jack Nicholson and Dustin Hoffman ), Martin Keßler (voice of Nicolas Cage and Vin Diesel ), Frank Glaubrecht (voice of Al Pacino , Pierce Brosnan and Kevin Costner ), Manfred Lehmann (voice of Bruce Willis ), Helmut Krauss (voice of Samuel L. Jackson ), Rolf Schult (voice of Anthony Hopkins ), Michael Chevalier (voice of Oliver Reed and Charles Bronson ), Eckart Dux (voice of Anthony Perkins and Michael Caine ) and Joachim Tennstedt (voice of John Malkovich ).

Cover design

The album cover shows a dark stormy sky on which a pair of eyes can be seen. A lightning bolt rises between the eyes and hits a tree. In the upper part of the picture are the yellow-green lettering E Nomine and the title Finsternis in white. The limited edition is only adorned with the lettering E Nomine in yellow-green and dark and limited edition in white. The background is completely black.

Track list

#	title	speaker	length
1	In the beginning there was darkness ...		0:47
2	midnight	Christian Brückner	3:48
3	The Change (Interlude)		0:29
4th	Wolfen (the animal in me)	Christian Brückner	4:40
5	Trip to Transylvania (Interlude)		0:23
6th	Dracul's blood wedding	Christian Brückner	5:55
7th	The Revelation (Interlude)		0:23
8th	Seance	Manfred Lehmann	4:26
9	The Threat (Interlude)		0:17
10	The evil	Helmut Krauss	4:00
11	The Search (Interlude)		0:31
12	The black riders	Rolf Schult	4:42
13	The pronouncement (interlude)		0:45
14th	Anger - The 12 Forbidden Tones	Michael Chevalier	3:47
15th	Hexenein x one (Interlude)		0:32
16	Witch hunt	Rolf Schult	4:12
17th	Disaster (Interlude)		0:28
18th	The exorcist	Frank Glaubrecht	4:40
19th	Death (Interlude)		0:27
20th	Lord of the Shadows	Michael Chevalier	4:05
21st	The Shiver of Foreboding (Interlude)		0:29
22nd	fear	Eckart Dux	4:52
23	The Scream (Interlude)		0:37
24	Death	Joachim Tennstedt	3:28
25th	The silence (interlude)		0:42
26th	The night watch	Eckart Dux	5:11
27	The voice ... (interlude)		0:29
28	From the beyond	Martin Keßler	5:27

Limited Edition Bonus DVD:

#	title
1	Midnight (video)
2	Our Father (video)
3	E Nomine (Because they don't know what they're doing) (Video)
4th	Making of midnight

Chart successes and singles

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

darkness   DE 3 02/04/2002 (18 weeks)   AT 6th 02/03/2002 (14 weeks)   CH 61 02/03/2002 (7 weeks)

Singles

midnight   DE 13 11/12/2001 (11 weeks)   AT 12 11/11/2001 (16 weeks)   CH 47 11/25/2001 (5 weeks) The animal in me (Wolfen)   DE 29 02/25/2002 (9 weeks)   AT 26th 02/24/2002 (9 weeks)   CH 92 03/10/2002 (4 weeks)

On February 4, 2002, Finsternis entered the German album charts at number 3 and in the following weeks occupied positions 7 and 6. In total, the album stayed in the top 100 for 18 weeks. The record was also able to make its way into Austria and Switzerland place on the charts. The album was ranked 38th in the German annual charts in 2002.

The song Mitternacht was released as the first single at the end of October 2001 . It reached position 13 in the German charts and stayed in the top 100 for eleven weeks. The second single Das Tier in mir (Wolfen) was released in February 2002, reached number 29 in the German charts and stayed in the top 100 for nine weeks .

Sales number and award

In 2008, Finsternis was awarded a gold record for more than 150,000 copies sold in Germany .

reception

Professional reviews
Reviews
source	rating
laut.de

• The online magazine laut.de gave the album the lowest rating out of a possible five points and described it as boring:

“ E Nomine is so terrifyingly sobering because" Finsternis "is such a terrifyingly boring CD. A pinch of Gregorian chant, a spoonful of Carl Orff and half a pack of juicy electronic beats were mixed together lovelessly. With the addition of plenty of greasy lyrics and well-known voice actors, the stew was quickly boiled up. "

- Excerpt from the review by laut.de.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Producer information at discogs.com
2. ↑ Album cover of the standard edition
3. ↑ Limited edition album cover
4. ↑ Chart sources album: DE AT CH
5. ↑ Chart sources singles: DE AT CH
6. ↑ Chart tracking Finsternis at officialcharts.de
7. ↑ DE: Annual charts # 38
8. ↑ Chart tracking midnight at officialcharts.de
9. ↑ Chart tracking The animal in me (Wolfen) at officialcharts.de
10. ↑ Darkness DE: Gold
11. ↑ Rating: laut.de
12. ↑ laut.de: Review of the sound carrier