Dark Ages - A Chronicle of the Plague
1. Ships Full of Blackened Corpses
2. Rats
3. Blessed be the Waters of the Avignon River
4. The Doors with Scarlet Crosses
5. Black Death
6. Dead Desolate Villages
7. Dreams In Yellow
Supernal Music, 2006
DARK AGE´s second album continues offering us minimalist Dark Ambient from the main member of DRUDKH, BLOOD OF KINGU and HATE FOREST, this time more melodic than before, and inspired on the horrors of the Middle Ages. Between the fall of the Western Roman emprie in A.D. 476 and the fall of Constantinople (capital of the Eastern Roman empire) in 1453, Europe was ravaged by plagues and superstition. Greek was largely forgotten, and with it much of the learned texts of antiquity. 'A Chronicle of the Plague' is a musical tale of the terror of 1349, which depopulated entire villages and decimated Europe's human population; the disease was not understood at the time, and therefore it was assumed to have been the wrathful punishment from the Judaeochristian Deity. Alas, prayers were of no avail...
Further information can be found here: [Supernal Music].
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