Description
Lammendam is the debut full-length studio album by the Dutch symphonic black metal band Carach Angren. Released in 2008, it is a concept album about Lammendam, the remains of a castle that is haunted by a "ghost lady in a white dress". Dennis "Seregor" Droomers claims that he was inspired to write the album by a local legend that he has been familiar since childhood. The legend centers around a series of events that supposedly occurred in Schinveldse Bossen, a forest area northeast of the Dutch region of South Limburg and of the town of Schinveld, near the German border.
In several interviews, Seregor has described the legend as being about a young woman who lived in the castle in the 17th century. This woman was involved in a love triangle between two men; when both of the men found out about each other, several fights broke out. One night, under mysterious circumstances, her castle was burned, leading to the young woman's death, and her ghost remains on the land. Shortly after her death, her two lovers soon also died. According to the legend, her ghost appears in the forest on nights of the full moon wearing a long white dress.
The name Lammendam is a Dutch adaptation of the French term "La Dame Blanche", which translates to "The White Lady." This name was given to the ghost that appeared in Schinveldse Bossen by French farmers who had evacuated to the Netherlands during the French revolution.
Release Info
Artist: Carach Angren
Label: Season Of Mist
Format: LP, Limited Edition, Reissue
Country: France
Label: Season Of Mist
Released: 2020
Genre: Rock
Style: Black Metal
Tracklist
A1 Het Spook van de Leiffartshof
A2 A Strange Presence Near The Woods
A3 Haunting Echoes From The Seventeenth Century
A4 Phobic Shadows And Moonlit Meadows
B1 Hexed Melting Flesh
B2 The Carriage Wheel Murder
B3 Corpse In A Nebulous Creek
B4 Invisible Physic Entity
C1 Heretic Poltergeist Phenomena
C2 La Malédiction de la Dame Blanche
D1 There Was No Light
D2 After Death Premises
D3 Yonder Realm Photography