Album: Franckensteina Strataemontanus by Carach Angren (2020)
Genre: Black Metal
Format: Album

Description: Franckensteina Strataemontanus is the sixth studio album by Dutch symphonic black metal band Carach Angren. Released on 26 June 2020 through Season of Mist, it is a concept album inspired by the life of late 17th-century/early 18th-century German occultist Johann Conrad Dippel, whose controversial experiments with corpses allegedly inspired Mary Shelley's influential 1818 Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus; its title is a reference to a Latin epithet used by Dippel later in life. It is also their final release with long-time drummer and founding member Ivo "Namtar" Wijers, who left the band as soon as the recording sessions ended citing "dissatisfactions with the music industry".

Artist Background: Carach Angren is a symphonic black metal band from the Netherlands, formed by two members of Vaultage. Their style is characterised by prominent use of orchestral arrangements. All of their studio albums are concept albums with lyrics based on famous ghost stories, such as the Flying Dutchman. The name means "Iron Jaws" in the language of Sindarin, and is the name of a fortified pass into North-Western Mordor in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Part of the Landgraaf, Lindburg music scene. Emerged in the 2000s era. Associated with Black Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Music Scene: Part of the Landgraaf, Lindburg music scene. Emerged in the 2000s era. Associated with Black Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Tags: Black Metal, 2020s, Album


Franckensteina Strataemontanus is the sixth studio album by Dutch symphonic black metal band Carach Angren. Released on 26 June 2020 through Season of Mist, it is a concept album inspired by the life of late 17th-century/early 18th-century German occultist Johann Conrad Dippel, whose controversial experiments with corpses allegedly inspired Mary Shelley's influential 1818 Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus; its title is a reference to a Latin epithet used by Dippel later in life. It is also their final release with long-time drummer and founding member Ivo "Namtar" Wijers, who left the band as soon as the recording sessions ended citing "dissatisfactions with the music industry".

Album: Dance and Laugh Amongst the Rotten by Carach Angren (2017)
Genre: Black Metal | Style: Metal
Record Label: Season of Mist
Format: Album

Description: "Dance and Laugh Amongst the Rotten"  is the fifth full length studio album by Dutch symphonic black metal band Carach Angren. It was released on June 16, 2017 via Season of Mist.

Artist Background: Carach Angren is a symphonic black metal band from the Netherlands, formed by two members of Vaultage. Their style is characterised by prominent use of orchestral arrangements. All of their studio albums are concept albums with lyrics based on famous ghost stories, such as the Flying Dutchman. The name means "Iron Jaws" in the language of Sindarin, and is the name of a fortified pass into North-Western Mordor in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Part of the Landgraaf, Lindburg music scene. Emerged in the 2000s era. Associated with Black Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Music Scene: Part of the Landgraaf, Lindburg music scene. Emerged in the 2000s era. Associated with Black Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Tags: Black Metal, Metal, 2010s, Album, Season of Mist

Additional Context: Available on Discogs marketplace


"Dance and Laugh Amongst the Rotten"  is the fifth full length studio album by Dutch symphonic black metal band Carach Angren. It was released on June 16, 2017 via Season of Mist.

Album: Lammendam by Carach Angren (2008)
Genre: Black Metal | Style: Metal
Format: Album

Description: Lammendam is the debut full-length studio album by the Dutch symphonic black metal band Carach Angren. Released in 2008, it is a concept album about Lammendam, the remains of a castle that are haunted by a "ghost lady in a white dress". Dennis "Seregor" Droomers claims that he was inspired to write the album by a local legend that he has been familiar with since childhood. The legend centers around series of events that supposedly occurred in Schinveldse Bossen, a forest area northeast of the Dutch region of South Limburg and of the town of Schinveld, near the German border.
The name Lammendam is a Dutch adaptation of the French term "La Dame Blanche", which translates to "The White Lady." This name was given to the ghost that appeared in Schinveldse Bossen by French farmers who had evacuated to the Netherlands during the French revolution.

Artist Background: Carach Angren is a symphonic black metal band from the Netherlands, formed by two members of Vaultage. Their style is characterised by prominent use of orchestral arrangements. All of their studio albums are concept albums with lyrics based on famous ghost stories, such as the Flying Dutchman. The name means "Iron Jaws" in the language of Sindarin, and is the name of a fortified pass into North-Western Mordor in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Part of the Landgraaf, Lindburg music scene. Emerged in the 2000s era. Associated with Black Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Music Scene: Part of the Landgraaf, Lindburg music scene. Emerged in the 2000s era. Associated with Black Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Tags: Black Metal, Metal, 2000s, Album

Additional Context: Available on Discogs marketplace


Lammendam is the debut full-length studio album by the Dutch symphonic black metal band Carach Angren. Released in 2008, it is a concept album about Lammendam, the remains of a castle that are haunted by a "ghost lady in a white dress". Dennis "Seregor" Droomers claims that he was inspired to write the album by a local legend that he has been familiar with since childhood. The legend centers around series of events that supposedly occurred in Schinveldse Bossen, a forest area northeast of the Dutch region of South Limburg and of the town of Schinveld, near the German border.
The name Lammendam is a Dutch adaptation of the French term "La Dame Blanche", which translates to "The White Lady." This name was given to the ghost that appeared in Schinveldse Bossen by French farmers who had evacuated to the Netherlands during the French revolution.

Album: Death Came Through a Phantom Ship by Carach Angren (2010)
Genre: Black Metal | Style: Metal
Format: Album

Description: Death Came Through a Phantom Ship is the second full-length studio album by the Dutch symphonic black metal band Carach Angren, It was released in 2010 on the 	Maddening Media label.
This album tells the legend of a ghost ship (an interpretation of the Flying Dutchman) from its beginnings. While a wide variety of interpretations of the Flying Dutchman legend exist, the band says that the album is based on the Dutch interpretation of the story. However, they took some creative liberties with it to make it a more horrifying story.

Artist Background: Carach Angren is a symphonic black metal band from the Netherlands, formed by two members of Vaultage. Their style is characterised by prominent use of orchestral arrangements. All of their studio albums are concept albums with lyrics based on famous ghost stories, such as the Flying Dutchman. The name means "Iron Jaws" in the language of Sindarin, and is the name of a fortified pass into North-Western Mordor in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Part of the Landgraaf, Lindburg music scene. Emerged in the 2000s era. Associated with Black Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Music Scene: Part of the Landgraaf, Lindburg music scene. Emerged in the 2000s era. Associated with Black Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Tags: Black Metal, Metal, 2010s, Album

Additional Context: Available on Discogs marketplace


Death Came Through a Phantom Ship is the second full-length studio album by the Dutch symphonic black metal band Carach Angren, It was released in 2010 on the 	Maddening Media label.
This album tells the legend of a ghost ship (an interpretation of the Flying Dutchman) from its beginnings. While a wide variety of interpretations of the Flying Dutchman legend exist, the band says that the album is based on the Dutch interpretation of the story. However, they took some creative liberties with it to make it a more horrifying story.

Album: This Is No Fairytale by Carach Angren (2015)
Genre: Black Metal | Style: Metal
Record Label: Season of Mist
Format: Album

Description: "This Is No Fairytale"  is the fourth full length studio album by the Dutch symphonic black metal band Carach Angren. It was released on February 23, 2015 via Season of Mist.
The album is a modern interpretation of the Hansel and Gretel fairy tale with themes of domestic abuse, drug addiction, alcoholism, sexual child abuse, suicide, child abduction and cannibalism.

Artist Background: Carach Angren is a symphonic black metal band from the Netherlands, formed by two members of Vaultage. Their style is characterised by prominent use of orchestral arrangements. All of their studio albums are concept albums with lyrics based on famous ghost stories, such as the Flying Dutchman. The name means "Iron Jaws" in the language of Sindarin, and is the name of a fortified pass into North-Western Mordor in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Part of the Landgraaf, Lindburg music scene. Emerged in the 2000s era. Associated with Black Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Music Scene: Part of the Landgraaf, Lindburg music scene. Emerged in the 2000s era. Associated with Black Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Tags: Black Metal, Metal, 2010s, Album, Season of Mist

Additional Context: Available on Discogs marketplace


"This Is No Fairytale"  is the fourth full length studio album by the Dutch symphonic black metal band Carach Angren. It was released on February 23, 2015 via Season of Mist.
The album is a modern interpretation of the Hansel and Gretel fairy tale with themes of domestic abuse, drug addiction, alcoholism, sexual child abuse, suicide, child abduction and cannibalism.

Album: Where the Corpses Sink Forever by Carach Angren (2012)
Genre: Black Metal | Style: Metal
Format: Album

Description: Where the Corpses Sink Forever is the third studio album by the Dutch symphonic black metal band Carach Angren. It was released on May 18, 2012 via Season of Mist.
 The concept of this album is not about a Dutch urban legend or ghost stories, like the previous two albums, but it deals with war. The album contains references to World Wars I and II, as well as the Vietnam War. The first track is a tape recording of a soldier who was ordered to shoot seven prisoners of war, and each shot can be heard. The soldier explains the strange and wicked sensations he felt as he shot each of the prisoners; they were grinning happily as he tried to kill them, and it seemed like the shots went through them, but they were actually demons who captured the soldier's soul in a time loop, making him suffer for eternity. Many of the songs in this album describe the deeds of each of the seven fiends; death, war, suffering.

Artist Background: Carach Angren is a symphonic black metal band from the Netherlands, formed by two members of Vaultage. Their style is characterised by prominent use of orchestral arrangements. All of their studio albums are concept albums with lyrics based on famous ghost stories, such as the Flying Dutchman. The name means "Iron Jaws" in the language of Sindarin, and is the name of a fortified pass into North-Western Mordor in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Part of the Landgraaf, Lindburg music scene. Emerged in the 2000s era. Associated with Black Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Music Scene: Part of the Landgraaf, Lindburg music scene. Emerged in the 2000s era. Associated with Black Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Tags: Black Metal, Metal, 2010s, Album

Additional Context: Available on Discogs marketplace


Where the Corpses Sink Forever is the third studio album by the Dutch symphonic black metal band Carach Angren. It was released on May 18, 2012 via Season of Mist.
 The concept of this album is not about a Dutch urban legend or ghost stories, like the previous two albums, but it deals with war. The album contains references to World Wars I and II, as well as the Vietnam War. The first track is a tape recording of a soldier who was ordered to shoot seven prisoners of war, and each shot can be heard. The soldier explains the strange and wicked sensations he felt as he shot each of the prisoners; they were grinning happily as he tried to kill them, and it seemed like the shots went through them, but they were actually demons who captured the soldier's soul in a time loop, making him suffer for eternity. Many of the songs in this album describe the deeds of each of the seven fiends; death, war, suffering.

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