," "Heart of Darkness," "Hidden Horrors," "Creeper," "Testament," and the end of "Dark Surrender." There's also a sinister chuckle at the end of "Lair of the Vampire." Everything's Louder with Bagpipes: "Highland Storm.".Eldritch Abomination: Necronomicon has several, being based of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.Driven to Madness: "Descent into Madness," one of the tracks on Shadow of the Raven, the album based on the work of Edgar Allan Poe.Dramatic Thunder: A frequent sound effect in their music.Dragon Hoard: The Treasure of the Four Crowns is protected by a dragon named Flame Tongue.Dracula: Transylvania is a musical adaptation of the story.
Don't Go in the Woods: "Shadow Forest," "Deep in the Woods," and "The Haunted Forest.".Dark Reprise: "The House Beyond the Graveyard" from Gothic, already creepy in its first version, makes a return as a bonus track, where instead of a children's voice and eerie background noise it's instead narrated with deep male voice (Vargo's) and backed with a quiet organ.Curse: Darklore Manor is a classic case - Natives called it: "the place where shadows walk," it became a hot spot for black magic, a bunch of deaths and other tragedies happened, and.Creepy Monotone: Several of the narrations sound like this.Creepy Circus Music: Pretty much every song on Carnival, but especially: " Ghosts of the Midway, " " Calliope, ", Pandora's Music Box and " Haunted Carousel.Creepy Child: The children's voices narrating " Nursery Rhyme.Circus of Fear: The Carnival of Lost Souls/Circus Diabolique.Buried Alive: Happy endings are few and far between with Nox Arcana, but one of the most chilling parts of their whole career is the hidden track of Shadow of the Raven, at the end of "Nevermore." It's Fortunato screaming that he's still alive and begging for help.Aldritch performs his inhumane experiments to gain insight into another dimension. Theater of Illusion features the shadow realm, which is a mysterious dimension hidden between space and time.The Darklore Manor book and the Tales from the Dark Tower trilogy provide more context for their respective albums.All There in the Manual: An extreme example with the puzzles inside the CDs, and a more mild example with the stories and the contents of The Arcanum.Abandoned Hospital: Blackthorn Asylum, which has been abandoned ever since a mysterious tragedy.Nox Arcana provide examples of the following: House of Nightmares (2010): Another collaboration with Buzz-Works for the Halloween season.Zombie Influx (2009): Collaboration with Buzz-Works.Blood of Angels (2006): Collaboration with Michelle Belanger.The Dark Tower and Darklore Manor have books that tie into their stories, and Monolith Graphics released in 2018 a point-and-click puzzle game that ties into Theater of Illusion called The Cabinets of Dr. On the official website, an interactive area known as "The Arcanum" allows listeners to enter the world of the music through solving puzzles hidden in the CDs. Vargo's artwork adorns the album covers and booklets. The band creates stories that tie in with the album's concept, often including vocals and sound effects that help to tell the story. The music is only one part of the whole (albeit the most important part). Perhaps the most unique aspect of Nox Arcana's work is that it is not simply music. As of 2019, twenty-two albums have been released, with the most recent being The Haunted Symphony. In 2010, House of Nightmares, the band's second collaboration with Buzz-Works was released. In 2009, the band put out two more albums ( Blackthorn Asylum and a second Holiday album, Winter's Eve), within a few months of each other.
Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe to dark carnivals, Transylvania, pirates, fairy tales, and (surprise!) four Holiday albums.
With the albums being published by Vargo's company Monolith Graphics, the group put out new album after new album, each with an entirely new concept. The group's first album Darklore Manor introduced the music world to what would become Nox Arcana's signature style - a darkly beautiful, but wonderfully eclectic sound that centered around the brilliantly realized backstory of the album's concept. Nox Arcana, a Gothic Classical group creating self described music from the shadows, formed in 2003 as a collaboration between gothic fantasy artist Joseph Vargo (of ex- Midnight Syndicate fame) and musician William Piotrowski.
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