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Grimm Tales | 
 enlarge | Artist: Nox Arcana
Label: Monolith Graphics
Category: Music
List Price: $13.99
Buy New: $10.96
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 2315
Format: Cd
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 634479766664
EAN: 0634479766664
ASIN: B0017GXZ4E
Release Date: May 5, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: BRAND NEW SEALED
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| Tracks:
| • | Fable | | • | Twilight | | • | Once Upon a Nightmare | | • | Shadow Forest | | • | Eyes in the Dark | | • | The Hollow | | • | Sylvan Spirits | | • | Wicked Heart | | • | Conjuration | | • | Night Wraiths | | • | Deep in the Woods | | • | The Forgotten Path | | • | Fairy Tale | | • | Crone's Caverns | | • | Rise to Destiny | | • | Labyrinth of Dreams | | • | Castle of Nightmares | | • | Hall of the Witch Queen | | • | Ave Sinistra | | • | Black Spires | | • | Darkly Everafter |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 The other side of a fairy tale September 8, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Fairy tales have been sanitized and scrubbed up through the centuries. Once upon a time, they were dark and even terrifying stories. And obviously the gothic band Nox Arcana knows this fact very very well, or they wouldn't have created the darkly enticing "Grimm Tales" -- their layered, dramatic orchestral music extends in both directions, capturing both the ethereal part of fairy tales, and the horrific and frighteneing parts that lurk in the shadows.
It opens with Nox Arcana's signature intro: a twinkling little solo, followed by a creaky echoey voice which is probably supposed to be a creepy old hag. "Welcome children! Gather round... to ye Grimm Tales of whispered lore. As twilight falls, dark shadows rise... to haunt the night forevermore... for ghastly things that in the dim, beneath the shadows of the Grim! Wait until you drift asleep, to fill your dreams with mortal dread!"
The hag cackles, crows caw, and a dark chorale joins the twinkly music. That segues into the rather typically gothic melody of "Twilight," before getting a more distinctly fairy-tale sound in the urgent, tolling "Once Upon A Nightmare," which sounds like an ordinary dream mutating into a horror. And the ominous "Shadow Forest" sets an increasingly morbid tone as we wander through an orchestral forest that grows more imposing as you go on. You can hear ghosts in he sidelines.
The songs that follow are mostly deep, orchestral numbers full of strings and organs, and with murmuring chorales setting the tone. And in these urgent, orchestral melodies you can hear a world of wolves, fey, spirits, evil kings, a witch casting horrible spells over a cauldron ("Cauldron blazing in the fire/blackened flames grow ever higher"), a chase by malevolent ghosts, a forest refuge with a bad guy lurking outside, a cave where the old witch lurks, a ghastly gothic castle.
Finally there's the "Hall Of The Witch Queen," a vibrant buildup to a the musical battles of the dread-filled "Ave Sinistra" -- which brings to mind the inevitable moment when the villain shows all of his/her power -- and the taut, haunting magical duel of "Black Spires." The epilogue "Darkly Everafter" runs full circle to the introduction -- a twinkly music-box tune that is slowly darkened by somnolent violins and a sense of dread. In other words: you may have won the battle, but the world of fairy tales is still pretty spooky.
Everybody loves being spooked by the darker side of the supernatural, but this is especially when you're a little kid and such things don't seem impossible -- and not always undesirable. "Grimm Tales" successfully brings back some of the feeling of being a small child and exploring in a forest as the sun is setting, or listening to a story that hints at a darker world that is way more interesting than your own.
Nox Arcana spins such a world with lots and lots of orchestral, classic arrangements -- dark and gloomy, urgent and powerful, and some are simply eerie. Lots of richly interwoven strings, bells, a rippling organ and rumbling drums, while the lighter and prettier songs have some delicate piano and a music-box tune. And they decorate the songs lavishly with clips of various sounds -- crows, bubbling, and tolling church bells. The only flaw: a couple of the songs feel slightly disconnected from the "dark fairy tale" theme.
Aside from the evil crone who pops up once or twice, there isn't really any lyrical content present in this album (and most of that is a "wing of bat, dragon's blood" spell). But there are plenty of vocals all throughout the album -- sometimes it's a lone female voice who seems to be drifting just out of reach of the heavier songs, and sometimes it's a chorale of deep male voices who "oooooooooo" like a chorus of gothic monks.
As with Nox Arcana's other works, "Grimm Tales" is a musical journey into another world -- in this case, walking through an oversized, shadowy world of magic, beauty and fear. Definitely for all those who enjoy the darker side of fairy tales.
Nox Arcana: The Masters of the Macabre Soundtrack August 7, 2008
Wow,
The Legend continues...Nox Arcana can create the dark atmospheric mood like no other, and be true to the subject matter at the same time. The difference is Nox Arcana get's it, and it shows in their work. Others throw down some tracks and slap a name on it, but not these guys. These are the true masters of the Haunting Soundtrack!
Every time a new cd comes out I wonder how can they top the last one, but they do.
Grimm Tales is the soundtrack to fairy tales the way they were meant to be VERY DARK. Each track takes you into the world of Grimm Tales and your imagination runs wild.
I can't wait for their next cd...
Grimm Tales July 14, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This cd is very consistant with Nox Arcana's previous work. I like the quality of their mixes, although I wish it had some more tracks with narration as those work really well around Halloween.
Nox Arcana Does it again!! June 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love the genre of music that Nox puts out and wish there were a sat channel that played Nox's music. The Grimm Tales creates a beautifully dark nuance for the imagination to immerse itself in thats as a shadowy play land in an unhallowed forest.
Earl Lothar Loc'Nar
BRILLIANT! Dark, Mysterious, Stirring. May 15, 2008
BRILLIANT! Dark, Mysterious, Stirring.
I am a professional magician and Nox Arcana's Music has never failed to inspire and invoke the imagination. It greatly enhances my performances; you can tell by the expressions on the audiences faces. Grimm Tales is a fantastic collection or gothic and haunting melodies. If you are stimulated by this genre of music, you cannot miss with this acquisition.
- George Anderson, Magician & Illusionist
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