Carach Angren "Where The Corpses Sink Forever"

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.


Track 3 translates from German as "Please Kill Me."

First Edition in Limited Digipak.

A music video was made for the song The Funerary Dirge of a Violinist

Recording information:


Recorded and Mixed by Patrick Damiani at Tidawave Studio. Produced by Patrick Damiani and Carach Angren. Mastered by 24-96 Mastering.

Carach Angren "Death Came Through A Phantom Ship"

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.

This album tells the legend of a ghost ship (an interpretation of The Flying Dutchman) from its beginnings. The album starts in the future, when a boat with an electronic communication device sails to the sea. The boat picks up signs of an eerie voice cursing its captain's name through the radio. Then a ghost ship comes across the sea. The sailors then remember stories about how people who saw that ship died in horrible ways. In track No. 3, in the same day of the sighting, later that night, the captain is haunted by the ghost of the seas. He kills his wife and daughter while sleepwalking and then kills himself with a shotgun. After that, it begins telling the story of Van der Decken and how he became the captain of an evil ship.

The album contains symphonic black metal although the vocals are kept clear. Parallels to Dimmu Borgir have been observed in the keyboard lines and the vocals' timbre. The structure of the songs has been described as "bulky" with many abrupt breaks, which is contrary to traditional black metal structures.


"Al betekent het mijn dood" is Dutch for "Even If It Means My Death."
6-page digipak + 16-page booklet.

Concept album based on the haunting legend "The Flying Dutch".

Artwork by Carach Angren and Erik Wijnands.

Recording information:

Recorded and mixed at Tidalwave Studios.
Produced by Patrick Damiani and Carach Angren.

Mastered by 24-96 Mastering.