11/23/2023 0 Comments Nox arcana discographyAnd on a non-spooky tangent, Nox Arcana also has a few winter themed albums that would be perfect to play in December for a more secular, solstice-y celebration. It's very well crafted music, it bites into your bones like a cold night and makes you feel like you're living in a horror movie. You've likely heard both of these groups without realizing it in a Halloween store or while waiting in line at a haunted house, they've become the go-to guys for "more serious" Halloween ambiance and with good reason. Taken on their own, if a more specific experience was desired, they are great listens. Not that it's a comment on the quality of the albums. I qualified Nox Arcana's discography somewhat because they have a few albums tied directly to existing source material, Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven, HP Lovecraft's work, that has performed spoken word segments and don't work as perfectly and universally as I'd like. 26 releases Get all 26 Nox Arcana releases available on Bandcamp and save 20. Most of the albums have a concept that the music is built around, a loose "plot" that gives them identities.vampires, an asylum, zombies, haunted carnival. They're created with the same sensibilities of a soundtrack, but for movies that don't exist so no problems with pre-existing association. That's where Midnight Syndicate's, and some of Nox Arcana's, albums come in. I include those soundtracks with less distinct "themes" though, stuff you couldn't easily hum and recognize, Sleepy Hollow or The Wolfman, for example. I do keep some movie soundtracks in my Halloween collection, most of Danny Elfman's stuff is obviously begging to be played this time of year. You hear a movie theme and your mind thinks about.the movie. What bugs me about throwing movie themes willy nilly into a Halloween playlist is that they already have association built into them. Now I can already hear people saying, "This jerk whines about the Exorcist theme and now he's going on and on about how great instrumental music is for Halloween", but just hold on you punks. Song about trick or treating, you get the idea.īut alas, this world doesn't exist yet, so the next best thing for me is good, moody, unsettling instrumental music. Maybe a solemn song about the legend of Jack O'Lantern, a fun To have a catalog of songs covering the same variety of tone asĬhristmas has. What if the onlyĬhristmas carol we had was Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer? I'd love The season.but ultimately, its just a novelty. Which is a fine enough song to get you in the spirit of The closest we have, that fits in my perhaps rigid demands, to Halloween songs would be novelties like And her works are far from being ubiquitous and a part of our hive song library. Still though, there are lots of borrowed pagan or re-purposed folk songs on her CDs. There is a smattering of "Halloween carols" out there, Kristen Lawrence is a kindred spirit and has made a few albums of carol-esque songs.
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