Necronomicon (album)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Necronomicon
Necronomicon cover
Studio album by Nox Arcana
Released October 10, 2004
Genre Gothic horror
Label Monolith Graphics
Professional reviews

Flames Rising, Music Street Journal
Nox Arcana chronology
Darklore Manor (2003) Necronomicon (2004) Winter's Knight (2005)
This article is about a gothic musical album. For other uses, see Necronomicon (disambiguation).

Necronomicon is an album by gothic horror musical group Nox Arcana published by Monolith Graphics in 2004. The music is inspired by the stories of horror writer H. P. Lovecraft and is a tribute to the Cthulhu Mythos.

Orchestra strings, drums, pipes, guitars and choirs are accented by ominous chanting, strange sound effects and brief narratives that combine to tell the story of an alchemist who dares to raise an ancient race of otherworldly beings.[1]

The "language of the Old Ones" developed by Lovecraft as a literary plot element but considered by many to be unpronouncable, is effectively spoken aloud by Joseph Vargo on several of the tracks. Vargo, who is a huge fan of Lovecraft's work, also illustrated the CD packaging to appear as he imagined the famed fictional book to be from Lovecraft's descriptions. [2]

A hidden track on the CD also contains a backward masking of the phrase "Klaatu barada nikto," a well-known quote from the film The Day the Earth Stood Still and Army of Darkness, which in turn borrowed thematic elements from Lovecraft.

Some of the songs titles are also titles of Lovecraft stories, such as "The Nameless City" and "The Haunter of the Dark", while others song titles such as Azathoth, Dagon, Nyarlathotep, Cthulhu and the Great Old Ones are the names of gods, demons or other supernatural entities from Lovecraft's fiction.

[edit] Track listing

Music composed and performed by Joseph Vargo and William Piotrowski.

  1. "Mythos" — 1:58
  2. "The Nameless City" — 3:38
  3. "Alhazred’s Vision" — 2:55
  4. "Necronomicon" — 2:03
  5. "Ancient Shadows" — 2:28
  6. "Azathoth" — :28
  7. "The Black Throne" — 2:01
  8. "Nyarlathotep" — :40
  9. "Temple of The Black Pharaoh 3:50
  10. "Eldritch Rites" — 1:33
  11. "The Haunter of The Dark" — 2:38
  12. "The Awakening" — 2:59
  13. "Yog-sothoth" — 1:00
  14. "Guardian of The Gate" — 3:26
  15. "Lords of Darkness" — 2:08
  16. "Dagon" — :35
  17. "The Stars Align" — 1:57
  18. "Cthulhu" — :55
  19. "Ritual Of Summoning" — 1:21
  20. "Cthulhu Rising" — 2:38
  21. "The Great Old Ones" — 4:06 *hidden track

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ Flames Rising
  2. ^ Gaming Report