My flesh began to creep 'coz of the evil voice, "Nightmare Parade," the chimes, the organ and the fantastic choir mix to a great atmosphere. Standout tracks are "Harlequin's Lament," which enchanted me with very beautiful, melancholic, dreamy piano, reminded me a bit of Dimmu Borgirs "Sorgens Kammer" from the Stormblast album, "Madame Endora," On the whole the music captures you, your thoughts drift to that old-time, creepy midway, with attractions like the fortune-teller Madame Endora, the hall of mirrors, the haunted carousel, the living dolls, the snake charmer, the freaks and the more bizarre and odd things. As they used gothic choirs and vampiresque sounds on their previous release Transylvania, they're now using midway melodies on "Carnival Of Lost Souls." Barrel-organ, tambourine, chimes, piano, spinet but also diabolical laughter or childish tittering mix to a dark, malicious, very beautiful poem. It's always a surprise how they translate the topic into music.
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With their new work, Carnival Of Lost Souls, Nox Arcana know yet again how to summon another creepy concept. Dark rumours of missing children and drifters have followed the carnival from town to town and though they are well aware of the dangers of trespassing there, they cannot resist the temptation to explore the circus grounds after dark. Pale green lights eminate from somewhere in the distance, and the murmor of voices mixed up with ghostly music drifts over the site. As nightfalls the once-festive midway exudes an eerie sense of menace. The green motif is superb and I still pray at night that in my next life I will be the lady riding the haunted carousel on the insert.īe careful when the Circus Diabolique gives a guest performance in your town.
I was seriously considering getting the evil jester image on the back cover as a tattoo. Each song is as perfect as the last, from start to finish. I think Nox Arcana should do this at the end of all their albums, but I am just being very biased to my decade of choice. Is a little treat for any of you who love the crackling of old records played on an old Victrola.Īnd speaking of SPELLBOUND!! What a treat at the end of the album to hear a REAL metal song for us Old Schoolers! I admit, I did shed a tear. making you desire to dance with the shadows and be part of their ghostly entourage. "Nightmare Parade" captures the beauty of the dark side. With "Haunted Carousel" I was reminded of a ballroom, of figures in black lace and crimson velvet. Is hypnotically hot, as is the exotic and provocative "Snake Charmer." The unrelenting drums of "Soul Stealer" puts to music hidden desires and unbridled passion. This brethren of the macabre, from the midway carnies to the freakshow performers for a brief time they cast their spell, enchant and seduce us, and then they're gone. The mystique of drifters traveling from town to town with their strange collection of secrets. I am fondly reminded of the Ray Bradbury classic "Something Wicked This Way Comes." Carnival of Lost Souls is by far Nox Arcana's sexiest cd to date-a celebration of the seduction and allure of the carnival. Press Reviewsīy the pricking of my thumbs. Carnival of Lost Souls delivers the Greatest Show On Earth with dark orchestrations and eerie melodies, haunting calliope, piano, pipe organ, ghostly choirs and sinister voices that echo from the shadows. Nox Arcana takes listeners inside an old-fashioned traveling circus, in the tradition of Bradbury's "Something Wicked This Way Comes." As the Circus Diabolique rises from the shadows on Halloween night every one-hundred years, the true faces of its diabolical denizens are unmasked. Leave the mundane world behind, for those who visit this festival of phantasms are never the same again. Hear the dark wisdom of the old gypsy soothsayer as she foretells of things yet to come, and marvel with awe and dismay at unbelievable death-defying acts that teeter on the very brink of doom. Cast your eyes upon the cruel oddities of nature and behold monstrous creatures from the depths of the abyss. Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the circus of the strange, the sideshow of the sinister and the theater of the bizarre.
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