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词条 Darklore Manor
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  1. Musical style

  2. Track listing

  3. References

  4. External links

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| type = Studio album
| artist = Nox Arcana
| cover = Darklore_Manor.jpg
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| released = December 15, 2003
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| genre = Gothic, Dark ambient, Dark wave
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| label = Monolith Graphics
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| next_title = Necronomicon
| next_year = 2004
}}{{Album ratings
| rev1 = Chain D.L.K.
| rev1Score = {{Rating|5|5}} [1]
| rev2 = Fangoria Magazine
| rev2Score = {{Rating|5|5}} [2]
| rev3 = Flames Rising
| rev3Score = {{Rating|5|5}} [3]
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Darklore Manor is the debut album by neoclassical darkwave musical duo Nox Arcana. It released on December 15, 2003 on the Monolith Graphics label. It features a style of music that bears a similarity to Joseph Vargo's earlier work on the album Born of the Night with Midnight Syndicate, a group that he helped to establish in 1998 prior to his founding of Nox Arcana.

Musical style

The music on Darklore Manor consists of piano, violin, pipe organ, harpsichord, with vocal choirs and brief ghostly narrations that invite the listener to "embark on a musical journey throughout the haunted halls of a Victorian mansion". The accompanying booklet features a history about the Darklore family and their "stark and grim abode" of which its "former splendor was lost to the ravages of time" and where "spirits of the dead do not rest easy."

This album was inspired by a real-life haunted house located near Salem, Massachusetts, an old Victorian mansion built in 1889. According to local legend, a curse befell the Darklore family, resulting in many mysterious deaths. Then in 1941, the last of the bloodline, Damon Darklore, his wife Elizabeth, and their daughter Belladonna disappeared without any explanation.

Over the years, the abandoned Darklore Manor became a local haunt, something to scare kids on Halloween and a place for daring teenagers to hang out. In 1968, three teens disappeared after holding a seance there on Halloween. The old manor finally burned to the ground in 1971.

Darklore Manor has inspired others to create haunted houses using the music and storyline as the basis for their Halloween attractions,[4] including the Busch Gardens "Howl-O-Scream" theme park in Tampa, Florida, which features a haunted wedding with Darklore Manor as the setting and atmosphere.[5][6]

Expanding upon the haunted house story created for this album's liner notes, Joseph Vargo wrote a novella entitled "The Legend of Darklore Manor." It appears among 12 other short horror stories in the book The Legend of Darklore Manor and Other Tales of Terror..[7][8]

Track listing

  1. "Legend" — 1:49
  2. "Darklore Manor" — 2:27
  3. "Threshold of the Dead" — 1:18
  4. "Trespassers" — 2:52
  5. "Veil of Darkness" — 1:55
  6. "Sanctuary of Shadows" — 3:12
  7. "The Grande Hall" — 1:55
  8. "Remnants" — 2:06
  9. "Phantom Procession" — 1:46
  10. "Belladonna" — 2:41
  11. "Nursery Rhyme" — 0:40
  12. "Music Box" — 2:08
  13. "The Forgotten" — 2:44
  14. "Nightmare" — 1:56
  15. "No Rest for the Wicked" — 3:12
  16. "Omen" — 0:43
  17. "Seance" — 2:56
  18. "Beyond Midnight" — 3:04
  19. "Darkness Immortal" — 3:39
  20. "Incantation" — 1:55
  21. "Resurrected" — 7:13
    • The song "Resurrected" ends at 2:15. An untitled hidden track starts at 4:25.

References

1. ^Chain D.L.K. review
2. ^Fangoria Magazine
3. ^Flames Rising review
4. ^{{Cite news | last=Dandurant | first=Karen | date=October 23, 2008 | title=Tour Darklore Manor — if you dare. | periodical=Seacoastonline.com | publication-place=Portsmouth, ME. | publisher=Ottaway Newspapers | url=http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081023/NEWS/81023029/-1/HALLOWEEN2008 | accessdate=2009-04-26 | postscript=.}}
5. ^{{Citation | last=Koster | first=Rick | date=October 7, 2008 | title=Nox Arcana | newspaper=The Day | publication-place=New London, CT. | url=http://www.theday.com/article/20081007/DAYARC/310079892 | accessdate=2017-06-27}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.halloweendatabase.com/index.php?v_action=noxarcana|title=Interview with Joseph Vargo|publisher=Halloween Database|accessdate=2009-08-25}}
7. ^{{Cite news | publication-date= | date=November 26, 2008 | title=Prepare for The Legend of Darklore Manor | periodical=Fangoria.com | url=http://www.fangoria.com | accessdate=2009-04-26}}
8. ^{{cite book| title=The Legend of Darklore Manor and Other Tales of Terror| last=Vargo| first=Joseph| year=2008| publisher=Monolith Graphics| isbn=9780978885762 | page=216| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ntxpl2IzQgYC | accessdate=2009-08-25}}

External links

  • Nox Arcana's official website
  • [{{Allmusic|class=album|id=mw0000466273|pure_url=yes}} Darklore Manor] at Allmusic

2 : Nox Arcana albums|2003 albums

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