Fluisteraars! My favourite band from the country of my favourite fantasy language! I listened to this a lot today, and De Kronieken van het Verdwenen Kasteel I contains - almost - everything I love so much about these Dutchmen. The beautiful and distinctive warmth of their sound is present as well as an extended, entrancing passage and their fully unique, deliberately indiscriminant insanity. I - only slightly - prefer the first song. More EPs = more opportunities to gush over their greatness! David Fischer
The atmosphere of this album is fantastic. Makes you feel like you're knee-deep in the trenches drenched in mud, filth, sweat, and blood. Truly encapsulates the horrors of World War I, and the fact that the lyrics of some of the songs are taken from old war letters really adds to the authenticity.
Favorite Track(s): Die Feuertaufe, Grabenlieder edoerfler