\u201cTwo Castles in Black\u201d was recorded live in one take at Dark Sound Studio in April 1993 and used for the compilation tape And Forget…<\/em> issued by the French association Incense in October 1993. This rare track was based on several experiences in two ruined castles in Haute-Vienne in France with local friends. One is the impressive mediaeval fortress named Ch\u00e2lucet and built probably in the 13th century, where we stayed up all night around a fire, with the intense feeling to be back in medieval times. Our love of antique ruins \u2013 Romanticism’s legacy \u2013 was thus fully satisfied. Ruins invite spectators’ reflections on transience, decay and death. The other castle is that of Valmate, sometimes spelled Walmath, which was built in the 19th century, then abandoned and almost completely looted in 1993. The scent of desolation was particularly present. The first doom part of the song was dedicated to Ch\u00e2lucet and the second part \u2013 noisier and more industrial because of its link with modernity \u2013 was dedicated to Valmate.\n<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHow I love to see the decay Unknown author quoted in The Tradition of Household Spirits, Ancestral Lore and Practices<\/em> by Claude Lecouteux.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nOf these old ruined castles
\nAgainst which the mutinous years
\nHave deployed their insolence…
\nRetreating there are demonic sprites
\nWho with malicious frolics
\nDeceive our senses and torture us.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n