YMMV / Carach Angren

• Awesome Music: Their discography is chalked full of this, especially with Lammendam, Death Came Through a Phantom Ship and Where the Corpses Sink Forever.
• Broken Base: The albums This Is No Fairytale and Dance and Laugh Amongst the Rotten tend to be this, despite having their fans. The criticism towards the album tend to be that they're much weaker in terms of songwriting and Seregor not being super hammy as he usually is.
• Complete Monster: Captain Van Der Decken, from Death Came Through a Phantom Ship, is a ruthless captain under the employ of the Dutch East India Company. Once a stern but noble figure, Van Der Decken is, by his own admission, now driven by greed and conquest, displaying abusive tendencies towards his wife Catharina, and encouraging his men to enslave, rape, and pillage the "filthy foreigners" whose lands they cross. His own crew eventually turns on him for wanting to set sail on Easter Sunday, and he makes an example out of one of them by slitting his throat in front of the rest, and allows their supplies to dwindle until most of his men are dead, then goes out to finish off the rest of them. Centuries after his death, Van Der Decken continues to haunt the seas, tormenting and murdering any unlucky sailors he comes across.
• Narm Charm: The band's music is the equivalent to Disney making a horror movie...and it fucking rules.
• Nightmare Fuel: As over the top and cheesy the music is, it does not dissuade how horrifying the stories the band tells are:
  • Lammendam, focusing on the haunting of the Woman in White in the titular location of Lammendam. It is not a happy story and to the music doesn't help.
  • Where the Corpses Sink Forever arguably paints this, with multiple stories of war being shown to a soldier by seven demons (such as the suicide of a violinist over the horrors of war, a child killing his father and his spirit causing the same events to occur, a cannibal soldier, ect..) and forced to relieve them for all eternity.
• Wangst: "The Funerary Dirge of a Violinist" is a little over the top when the title character decides to kill himself. Almost brings "EVERYBODY BETRAY ME, I FED UP WITH THIS WORLD" to mind.
  I've had enough of this sickening war and it's murdering puppets! They don't understand the language of music cannot be spoken in death. I never took a life! Maybe now is the time to take mine. In the name of music; shall I cut my wrists or hang myself high by a violin string? A symphonic suicide is what I shall bring!