Transylvania (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Transylvania
Type = Studio album
Artist = Nox Arcana


Released = October 21, 2005
Recorded =
Genre = Gothic horror
Length =
Label = [http://www.monolithgraphics.com Monolith Graphics]
Producer =
Reviews = [http://www.chaindlk.com/reviews/index.php?rl=1&id=2490 Chain DLK] , [http://www.metal-invader.com/db/reviews-2864.html Metal Invader] , [http://www.legendsmagazine.net/153/noxtrans.htm� Legends Magazine]
Last album = Winter's Knight
(2005)
This album = Transylvania (2005)
Next album = Carnival of Lost Souls (2006)

"Transylvania" is Nox Arcana's tribute to Bram Stoker's "Dracula". The band employs their musical storytelling concept to take their listeners through chapters of the classic novel—beginning with Jonathan Harker's voyage into the Carpathian Mountains, a ride in Dracula's ominous black coach, arriving at Castle Dracula, a rendezvous with Dracula's brides, and a foray into a gypsy encampment, and finally into the lair of the vampire.

As with previous CDs, the booklet artwork is supplied by Joseph Vargo, with illustrations and quotes from Harker and Van Helsing. The band website also offers some historical background for the inspiration of their album.

Nox Arcana took their subject matter very seriously when composing the music for "Transylvania". The album was also used to score a televised edition of the 1922 silent film "Nosferatu." [ [http://www.legendsmagazine.net/156/noxarc.htm Interview in Legends Magazine] , February 2006.]

Track listing

"Music composed by Joseph Vargo and William Piotrowski."
#"Transylvania Overture" – 2:01
#"The Voyage" – 2:54
#"Gossamer Mist" – 2:39
#"The Black Coach" – 2:35
#"Sentinels of Stone" – 0:44
#"Into the Shadows" – 2:59
#"Castle Dracula" – 2:56
#"Visitors in the Night" – 0:57
#"Brides to Darkness" – 2:34
#"Grande Masquerade" – 4:14
#"Memento Mori" – 2:28
#"The Howling" – 1:20
#"Nocturne" – 2:55
#"Bats in the Belfry" – 0:35
#"Gothic Sanctum" – 2:43
#"Gypsy Caravan" – 4:13
#"From Dusk Till Dawn – 0:53
#"Night of the Wolf" – 3:59
#"Echoes from the Crypt" – 2:37
#"Shadow Hunters" – 2:51
#"Lair of the Vampire" – 3:18 *hidden track

External links

* [http://www.noxarcana.com Nox Arcana official website]
* [http://www.noxarcana.com/vr.html?/dracula.html Nox Arcana article: The Legend of Dracula (Vlad Tepes)]
* [http://www.noxarcana.com/vr.html?/journal.html Nox Arcana article: Transylvania Journals]
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