''Blackthorn Asylum'' is the eleventh album by dark ambient duo
Nox Arcana
Nox Arcana is the American neoclassical dark wave, dark ambient musical project of Joseph Vargo. It was founded in 2003 as a duo with William Piotrowski, who left in 2008 to pursue a career in film score composing but still acts as its studio e ...
. The musical theme is described as being "set in an abandoned sanitarium for the criminally insane where the doctors conducted horrible experiments on the inmates." Nox Arcana once again pays homage to
H.P. Lovecraft as they did with their second album ''
Necronomicon
The ', also referred to as the ''Book of the Dead'', or under a purported original Arabic title of ', is a fictional grimoire (textbook of magic) appearing in stories by the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft and his followers. It was first mentio ...
'', stating "We set ''Blackthorn Asylum'' in the 1930s and revisit the dark domain of H.P. Lovecraft. The plot builds upon Lovecraft’s short story "
From Beyond" and adds some creepy new twists." And, as with almost every other album this band has released, this album conceals a puzzle, along with a storyline that expounds upon Lovecraft's story.
Track listing
# "Legacy of Darkness" — 2:09
# "Blackthorn Asylum" — 3:12
# "Sanitarium Gates" — 3:06
# "Abandoned" — 2:54
# "Threshold of Madness" — 3:41
# "Tapestry of Decay" — 3:06
# "Hidden Horrors" — 2:32
# "When Darkness Falls" — 3:24
# "Shock Treatment" — :55
# "Fractured Memories" — 2:27
# "Phantasmagoria" — 3:27
# "Creeper" — 2:12
# "Sanity Slipping" — 3:03
# "Dementia 13" — 3:23
# "Solitary Confinement" — 3:24
# "Frenzy" — 2:45
# "The Condemned" — 3:04
# "Spiders in the Attic" — 4:24
# "From Beyond" — :47
# "Essence of Evil" — 2:55
# "Fade to Black" — 3:45
References
External links
Nox Arcana's official website*
''Blackthorn Asylum''at
Allmusic
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Nox Arcana albums
2009 albums
Halloween albums
Cthulhu Mythos music
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