Blackthorn Asylum

Blackthorn Asylum is the eleventh album by dark ambient duo Nox Arcana. 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."[4] Nox Arcana once again pays homage to H.P. Lovecraft as they did with their second album Necronomicon, 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."[5] 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.[6]

Blackthorn Asylum
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 21, 2009
GenreGothic, Dark ambient, Dark wave
LabelMonolith Graphics
Nox Arcana chronology
Phantoms of the High Seas
(2008)
Blackthorn Asylum
(2009)
Zombie Influx
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Fangoria Magazine [1]
Flames Rising [2]
Metal Sound [3]

Track listing

  1. "Legacy of Darkness" — 2:09
  2. "Blackthorn Asylum" — 3:12
  3. "Sanitarium Gates" — 3:06
  4. "Abandoned" — 2:54
  5. "Threshold of Madness" — 3:41
  6. "Tapestry of Decay" — 3:06
  7. "Hidden Horrors" — 2:32
  8. "When Darkness Falls" — 3:24
  9. "Shock Treatment" — :55
  10. "Fractured Memories" — 2:27
  11. "Phantasmagoria" — 3:27
  12. "Creeper" — 2:12
  13. "Sanity Slipping" — 3:03
  14. "Dementia 13" — 3:23
  15. "Solitary Confinement" — 3:24
  16. "Frenzy" — 2:45
  17. "The Condemned" — 3:04
  18. "Spiders in the Attic" — 4:24
  19. "From Beyond" — :47
  20. "Essence of Evil" — 2:55
  21. "Fade to Black" — 3:45
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gollark: Maybe I could make a useful utility library out of the random code I copy between projects a lot, like `map`, `fread`, `fwrite`, `fetch` and all that.
gollark: Also an approximate cross-server TPS measuring thing, although that's something like 5 lines of code and really does not need a library much (unless I add rolling averages and stuff).
gollark: I also have a ridiculously gigantic DEFLATE thing tweaked slightly from jackmacwindows's port of some WoW developer's thing.
gollark: Would adding the LZW library potatOS uses be useful? It's basically a minimal compression thing.

References

  1. Fangoria review
  2. Flames Rising review
  3. Metal Sound review
  4. "Interview: Joseph Vargo of Nox Arcana". Lili's Lair. 2009-07-25. Retrieved 2016-07-06.
  5. "Interview with Joseph Vargo". Ideology of Madness. Retrieved 2017-08-06.
  6. Furkan Çolak. "Interview with Joseph Vargo". Turkey: Fantastik Edebiyat. Retrieved 2017-08-06.


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