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On this day (June 16) in 2017, Carach Angren released their fifth full-length studio album, Dance and Laugh Amongst the Rotten via Season of Mist.
Although the album doesn't follow a linear story as their previous albums did, it is still a concept album. Clemens "Ardek" Wijers describes the album's concept as visitations from multiple ghosts of the dead; including the "Blood Queen" and Charles Francis Coghlan. The full album is focused on a nameless girl who plays with a Ouija board causing her to raise a variety of spirits and ends up getting possessed. The album ends by informing the listener that the box the CD came in is haunted by these same spirits, and that by opening the album, the listener has also released them.
Overview:
โDance and Laugh Amongst the Rottenโ strays away from the thematic issues dealt with in Carach Angrenโs previous two albums, This Is No Fairytale and Where the Corpses Sink Forever. Although โDance and Laugh Amongst the Rottenโ does adhere to the bands brand of macabre storytelling, the album also branches into new, uncharted domains.
The โOpeningโ is a dark, foreboding number,
coming on like a film score for a theatrical thriller. Piano and symphonic arrangements give the track a feeling of malevolence. โCharlieโ is like a virulent strain that has symptomatically spread throughout the whole of the album.
The all to compelling โBlood Queenโ proves yet again that Carach Angren are the preeminent purveyors of terror. โCharles Francis Coghlanโ is perfect representation of Carach Angren in their truest form, spinning a tragic tale through vivid narratives of a promising young actor before his untimely deathโฆ a story which evokes powerful imagery!
โSong For The Deadโ is another desolate and lugubrious refrain, while the following track, โIn De Naam Van De Duivelโ is another jarring tale of calamity and sorrow, while โPitch Black Boxโ is a comprehensive piece, acting as a segue for the whole album. โThe Possession Processโ is a continuance of this demented saga, which was so methodically framed around โDance and Laugh Amongst the Rottenโ. The ominous โThree Times Thunder Strikesโ brings this haunting tale to its finaleโฆ for, in this twisted fairytale, there is no happily ever-after.
In conclusion; if you are fan of horror, I highly recommend that you listen to โDance and Laugh Amongst the Rottenโ as it is suspenseful from start to finish. - E.N. Wells
Links to Artists, Albums, and Music Videos:
Click this link to listen to โDance and Laugh Amongst the Rottenโ via Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/dance-and-laugh-amongst-the-rotten/1218443321
Click this link to watch the official music video for โBlood Queenโ: https://youtu.be/XNgSN5tQoJU
Click this link to follow Carach Angren on Facebook: Carach Angren
Note: The reviews shared here are for historical reference. The views and opinions expressed within are not always supported (in full or in part) by Into the Wells. โ E.N. Wells
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