Death Came Through a Phantom Ship

Death Came Through a Phantom Ship
Studio album by Carach Angren
Released February 26, 2010
Recorded Tidalwave Studios
Genre Symphonic black metal
Length 43:47
Label Maddening Media
Producer Patrick Damiani, Carach Angren
Carach Angren chronology
Lammendam
(2008)		 Death Came Through a Phantom Ship
(2010)

Death Came Through a Phantom Ship is the second full-length album by the symphonic black metal band Carach Angren, It was released in 2010. This album tells the legend of a ghost ship from it 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 a eerie voice cursing it's 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 #3, in the same day of the sighting, later that night,the captain is haunted by the ghost of the seas. He commits various crimes 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.

Track listing

  1. "Electronic Voice Phenomena"
  2. "The Sighting Is a Portent of Doom"
  3. "And the Consequence Macabre"
  4. "Van Der Decken's Triumph"
  5. "Bloodstains on the Captain's Log"
  6. "Al Betekent Het Mijn Dood"
  7. "Departure Towards a Nautical Curse"
  8. "The Course of a Spectral Ship"
  9. "The Shining Was a Portent of Gloom"

Personnel