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Top 5 albums in or around the halloween?

Can they be scary albums or just ones released on that particular day?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rwu_jAFKvk

murder ballads
like clockwork
memphis slim usa
stories from the city stories from the sea
once more round the sun

Carach Angren - Lammendam (2008)
Carach Angren - Death Came Through a Phantom Ship (2010)
Carach Angren - Where the Corpses Sink Forever (2012)
Carach Angren - This Is No Fairytale (2015)
Carach Angren - Dance and Laugh Amongst the Rotten (2017)

lummo, i just listened to Carach Angren for the first time tonight, the song charlie. i loved it

i was actually going to post and ask if you liked them

he likes them on halloween

I meant to comment on it earlier but I was actually wearing a carach angren shirt this morning before I saw Zims comment.

And it’s funny you mentioned around Halloween because I actually just saw them live on October 23 so they’ve been fresh in my mind lately.

I never even heard this here band

I’ve posted about them before. It’s essentially symphonic black metal but instead of the usual topics the songs and albums center around horror - ghost stories and associated folk lore.


https://youtu.be/USIao3W2W1E

Probably my favorite song by them:

https://youtu.be/hAZd9fM0FgM

Listen! Don't you hear these mad symphonies of grievance and fear? Melancholy and despair can be sensed when we draw near. Some hear a violin sound, others hear a man moaning in tears. These fields are haunted by nature's most sombre melodies. Suicidal white noise absorbing the essence from light, mirth and vitality. These grounds are haunted by reflections from World War II...

Arise! 1941, '42
The identity of warfare on the East Front is lugubrious. There's one soldier incapable of committing sin. Kept alive by his comrades thanks to his heavenly gift with a violin

His brilliant music so beautiful and pure... Shining warmth upon every soldier. It helps them to endure. Breath-taking melodies consuming all hate, sorrow and fear. These magnificent tunes are like silk for their ears. And for a moment their pain disappears

But this moment will not last when they are baffled by another blast. The enemy is near. Rain of bullets killing soldiers there and here. And so the instrument of peace is being silenced by the one of war. It plays the music of the dead; music made of lead. "I've had enough of this sickening war and it's murdering puppets! They don't understand the language of music cannot be spoken in death. I never took a life! Maybe now is the time to take mine. In the name of music; shall I cut my wrists or hang myself high by a violin string? A symphonic suicide is what I shall bring!"

The enemy lies on the other side of the field. He decides to walk straight into the fire fight, playing this dreamlike masterpiece. Every soldier stops, holds his breath. Not a single shot is being heard during an intro for his own death

And when the violin bow is being lowered at the end, both sides simultaneously open fire. There's the corpse of the violinist lying in mud and barbed wire

These fields are haunted by the funerary dirge of a violinist. Can't you hear his call of death? Listen! Don't you hear these mad symphonies of grievance and fear? Melancholy and despair can be sensed when we draw near. Some hear a violin sound... Others hear a man moaning in tears

The funerary dirge of a violinist...