Carach Angren

Carach Angren is a symphonic black metal band from the Netherlands, which was founded by two former members of the band Vaultage. Their music is strongly influenced by orchestral arrangements. All of their studio albums are concept albums, and also the demo The Chase Vault Tragedy, as well as the EP Ethereal Veiled Existence in this style. The lyrics are based on ghost stories, such as The Flying Dutchman. The name Carach Angren means as much as "Iron Maw " in the language of Sindarin and designates the way to the north-west of Mordor in JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

History

Carach Angren, was founded in 2003 in Landgraaf as a side project of two members of the band Vaultage, due to the common tendency to legends and black metal. As the project went well, the work for Vaultage was reduced.

The first demo The Chase Vault Tragedy was admitted in 2004. Followed in 2005 by the EP Ethereal Veiled Existence, after which the band was taken in 2007 by Maddening Media under contract. Carach Angren Then took the first album Lammendam and published this in 2008.

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

18 May 2012 their new album Where the Corpses Sink Forever was released on the label Season of Mist. In September, followed by a European tour with Vreid and Mistur, where Carach Angren occurs as a replacement for the Viking metal band Einherjer. In May 2013, more Europe is following tour called "The Great Mass Over Europe Tour 2013 " with Septic Flesh, Fleshgod Apocalypse and Descending, Carach Angren also, among other things for the Summer Breeze Festival has been confirmed. On February 6, 2013, a video for the song Funerary Dirge Of A Violinist was released from the album Where The Corpses Sink Forever.

Style

Carach Angren work very hard with orchestral arrangements worked out and therefore are also often compared to Dimmu Borgir .. The basis for this, however, is largely classic Black Metal with lots of blast beats and typically played guitar. The voice of Seregor moves usually also typical of Black Metal, but is multi-faceted and is partially mixed with death metal growls typical.

The music gets through the combination of orchestral elements and Black Metal a dark atmosphere and is often associated with films in conjunction due to the concepts in the works:

" Composer Ardek seems to harbor a great passion for dark musical themes and film scores, because if you can even have an effect on the orchestral content, get one here and there names like Andrew Lloyd Webber, Danny Elfman, in conjunction with Tim Burton or John Williams in the sense. "

Discography

  • 2008: Lammendam
  • 2010: Death Came Through a Phantom Ship
  • 2012: Where the Corpses Sink Forever
  • 2005: Ethereal Veiled Existence
  • 2004: The Chase Vault Tragedy
Limburg (Netherlands) Singing Electric guitar Electronic keyboard Extended Play Blastbeat
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