Arcana - Dark Age of Reason (full album)

Year: 1996
Label: Cold Meat Industry
Origin: Sweden

Tracklist:

1. Our God Weeps 0:00
2. Angel of Sorrow 1:59
3. Source of Light 5:06
4. The Calm Before the Storm 8:08
5. Dark Age of Reason 11:04
6. Like Statues in the Garden of Dreaming 18:07
7. The Oath 21:05
8. ...for My Love 24:35
9. Serenity 26:52
10. The Song of Mourning 32:54

[thenoviembre]

And I listened to that 25 years ago …. 2025 and I’m still in love in this album ❤

[carvinieri]

This is a GEM . This is pure art.... beautiful voice of Ida Bengtsson

[beavizbivrator]

I remember this album- one of the first that I bought myself with my own money. First got interested just because of artwork (not knowing what is "Arcana"), then I listened to it in the cd shop and was surprised how much I liked it. Good memories.

[urosgorjan]

This album brings me so much memories....I miss those years

[ΒαγγεληςΚαρδιτσιωτης]

if there is a feeling that express the dark heart of paganism, if there is a murmur among the arcades of medieval churches, if the light of a candle flickering in the cold wind, illuminates the vanity of this world... then it would be called Arcana...

[blueeverlast]

A most profound album.  Pathways to my dreams and rampant imagination.  Yearning for that lost and forlorn world.

[firewalker]

I have this CD since 1996.It`s one of the best music in this world.I still get goose pimples, when I listen to it.So powerful.

[feniksusbf]

One of best albums ever. Arcana and Raison d’etre forever

[annika]

I bought this album as a CD sometime in early 2000's. I have no idea where it is anymore, and I had completely forgotten about it until now. All I remembered that the music sounded medieval-ish and the band is Swedish. Google easily found it though. And the music is still as enchanting to me as it was about 20 years ago.

[enzogalli]

GREAT album...deep, dark and SUBLIME!!

[sivens]

That's how I came back to this album after 23 years, when I heard this band and this record for the first time in a radio program of Radio Rzeszów

[andersoncadete]

Angel of Sorrow é a mais bela canção, simplesmente linda.
Brasil - Abril 2020 na quarentena.😒
Parabéns ao canal.

[shogunedpada]

thanks for uploading i play this just before i go to bed and listen to it while i sleep/ Love Arcana and Nox Arcana.
Noc arcana winters eve magic and moonlight is majestic.

[Cerixvladimir]

that`s my spirit voyage soundtrack in search of light trough the shadows of sadness from this life out...

[thevisinaryy]

great band. reminds me of games like dark souls.

[pierredeby]

Noyaux par le frais . . . " Réédicter "les Lois à leurs privilégiés . . . X)

[ricarpotillieman]

This album, a specific track, made me seek to open my third eye, literally drawed me like that, poof and gone, a man that always respects science, like that. I did not seek the track, I was looking for a mod for a game, and this track played, its a bit like a calling.

Yes deep down I have always had faith of something more, and I have taken it a step further, I have taken science to support it, and I have found many small revelations where the 2 bridge and support one another, when people say light, science calls it electromagnetic-energy, yet it was light that brought structure to all of the universe, having perhaps a direct relationship to gravity, to pull, it is raw pure energy that allowed the gas to collect, allowed the stars, the sub-creators of the universe to form, Science is not against this, it supports it, science and faith together, like it was in the Renaissance, the man who founded the scientific method was a acute believer, a strong believer who believed in his heart that he did Science for his faith, for God, Francis Bacon, before that a man regarded as perhaps the first scientist, Alhazen, with his book of optics, his studies of light, Isaac Newton, with his calculus and prism to test light, all believers, Albert Einstein and his study of light, nuclear, radiation, light which is radiation, a fusion reaction similar to that which stars do, it has to mean something. I am now certain there is a possibility of something more, yet most of these revelations did not change my life at all, it did make me wiser, more open minded, and strangely enough, more humble.

They placed sea before land in Genesis, how?

Why would we, beings of ego, place something which we do not live upon as the center of it all, think about the flat earth theory, that made sense in that we would make something up like that, it was ego-based, we live on the Earth, we live on the ground and so we believe we are the center, but placing sea, a distant far environment, as before your own, the land, that is intuition, not ego, that is where the magic comes in, the very real magic.

It was formless, that is what they call "Dark Matter" and "Antimatter", scientists, no form existed in the universe, mostly gas, but then there was light, something had to cause the pull, the formation of stars, of solid matter, and it was a great light, why does this feel similar to the very first words of Genesis?

There are many flaws, contradictions, but beneath the clutter, the hubris that we could have added, the ego, is the truth.

Light goes far back in history, light has been an obsession of humanity from long ago, from the Neolithic period, we looked to the stars, to the light for guidance, in ancient Egypt we build pyramids where on the top, the capstone would reflect this great light, we love gold, where most gold comes from fallen stars.

We have a natural liking to light, maybe its because we more directly come from it. That is how they dated, they looked at the effect light has on matter, on a microscopic level, the oculus, they used, they measured the radioactive decay to determine the date of the Earth, what if light was the tool which created the Earth, how does one measure it, if one looks for the physical rather than something that we have yet to "see", all science is based upon seeing, observing, looking deeper.

The crystals, the Shamir, the Onyx Stone, the Philosopher's Stone, the occasionally linking of magic to crystals, well its real, not in the way of most would say, but in science it exists strongly, inside every semi-conductor is a carefully fabricated silicone crystalline, solar cells are generated via silicone crystalline, that new experimental quantum storage device which is a million times faster than magnetic storage works with trapping light inside a big silicone crystal, somehow allowing the quantum data to be stored and accessed.
It is a conduit, like the myths portray it as, it channels energy and can exert that stored energy or regulate energy, focus it. I understand there to be a lot of clutter, all born of the truth, the real source of the myth, but that is has a truthful source, that is so.

I was always stubborn to let go of my faith, even when all of the science showed itself before me, but I cracked, my ego, my pride, was nothing against the avalanche of facts.

What kept me going was not pride, it was longing, it was the concept and possibility of a purer world, a cleaner world, a sun that rises on the horizon, a great light, great hope, a new Eden. I dislike end, and current biological science says there is nothing, no purpose, no reason for living or dying, it tells you that your marriage is nothing more than a attempt at the massive cell called humanity to procreate and move forward, to what, to nothing...

How can something be for nothing and nothing be for something, The Bible never said there was nothing in the beginning, it said "formless", that is not nothing, nothing comes from nothing, only something can come from something.

All these revelations and more, the cockroach, mostly unchanged for 200-300 thousand years, all dating back to the time the first live treated upon the lands according to science, before the dinosaurs, I am not saying macro evolution is false, I am merely saying "it does not always have to be the truth". It is possible if a lifeform is adaptable enough like us, that we would need no change massively, and that generally we stayed the same, its possible, but it has been said that scientists do not care from where we come from, it is a mostly unfunded unpopular field. I can smell there is bias, maybe not a lot, but some, but this makes it a possibility that we have more to our origin that just that.

[mr.dodstink]

I ´knew' Arckanum(Swe) through FMP(Usa) and later I saw Arcana in mail-order list of CMI. Swedes rules as Private, Clark Oloffson

[dilmata]

I found this album for very good background when read some stuff.

[saivo]

Dark Age of Reason begins at 11:04  my favourite