Line #16 Music/CarachAngren


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3	Carach Angren are a Dutch symphonic BlackMetal band. Formed in 2003, they took an approach similar to Music/KingDiamond, with each album being a ConceptAlbum telling a ghost story.
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5	'''Discography:'''
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7	* ''Lammendam'' (2008)
8	* ''Music/DeathCameThroughAPhantomShip'' (2010)
9	* ''Where the Corpses Sink Forever'' (2012)
10	* ''This Is No Fairytale'' (2015)
11	* ''Dance and Laugh Amongst the Rotten'' (2017)
12	* ''Franckensteina Strataemontanus'' (2020)
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14	!!Little tropers, what have you done?
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16	* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: The fate of the main character in ''Where the Corpses Sink Forever'': Forced to relive all the horrors of the seven demons's stories, screaming in sadness and despair by the end]].
17	* AscendedMeme: The "[[https://www.pinterest.com/pin/477733472944239359/ You came to the wrong forest, motherfucker]]" meme has gained notoriety and recognition by the band. They apparently found it amusing enough to release it on their hoodies and shirts.
18	* ConceptAlbum: Thus far, each of their albums has consistently told a story, although ''Lammendam'' went off on a tangent with "Heretic Poltergeist Phenomena". Although a big explanation...
19	** ''Lammendam'' focuses on the urban legend of the Woman in White.
20	** ''Death Came Through a Phantom Ship'' focuses on the origin of the Flying Dutchman.
21	** ''Where the Corpses Sink Forever'' focuses on a soldier forced to witness seven demons's stories of war.
22	** ''This is No Fairy Tale'' is a twisted version of fairy tale stories focusing on two children ala Hansel and Gretel.
23	* DrivenToSuicide: Happens often in their albums.
24	* GratuitousForeignLanguage: Averted, in that most of their lyrics are in English, but they slip into their native Dutch every once in a while without expectation.
25	* LargeHam: ''Seregor,'' especially when he's reading the lines of a character. Notable examples include pretty much any of his readings of Van Der Decken's lines on ''Death Came Through A Phantom Ship'', and that of the violinist in "The Funerary Dirge of a Violinist".
26	* LongRunnerLineUp: A type 1. From 2003-2020, the band consisted of Seregor, Ardek, and Namtar. ''Franckensteina Strataemontanus'' would be Namtar's last album with the band before leaving in 2020.
27	* MalevolentMaskedMan: Seregor invokes this in live performances, where he puts on a crowned mask that resembles his corpsepaint. He also sells masks.
28	* MetalScream: Fittingly for a black metal band, Seregor has a standard type 3.
29	* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Their first two albums are about ghosts. "Heretic Poltergeist Phenomena" explains it best:
30	-->Ghost, a lost semi-transparent appearance\
31	Soul, a fog-like human form of mental anger, caught between life and death\
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33	-->A threatening presence of an invisible personality\
34	It keeps bewitching the sceneries of earth instead of departing to a much more blissfull world\
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36	-->Doomed and forgotten in a mortal realm of bloom\
37	Repeating tragedy summoned by the moon
38	* ShoutOut:
39	** The band's name comes from ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', and is a Sindarin word for "Iron Jaws".
40	** Their ex-drummer, Namtar, is named after a god from Myth/MesopotamianMythology.
41	* SopranoAndGravel: Every now and then, clean vocals are used to indicate that a different character is speaking. Jarringly enough, this was averted on "Bloodstains on the Captain's Log", when Seregor uses his own voice for Van Der Decken's wife Catharina.
42	* SymphonicMetal: Symphonic ''black'' metal.
43	* TwistEnding: [[spoiler: The ending of ''This is No Fairy Tale'': The female protagonist realizes she and her sibling were ever in any fairy-like danger...she simply imagined everything as a way to cope with her abusive home life, with her drunken father arriving home...]]
44	* UndeathlyPallor: The band's corpsepaint invokes the image of ghosts.

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