Carrion Wraith - The most conceptually arced of Monarque's projects is based around the Carrion Wraith, a character spreading rot and darkness through his wintry forests. The musical conception and recording of the album was limited to a 7 day period of spontaneous writing, meaning the entire thing is almost a free solo jam session with a lot of parts conceived and set down on first take. It is totally devotional Burzum worship interspersed with the samples of natural environments, drilling it's naturalistic point home pretty hard through the sound of birdsong...
The standout out recording of all Monarque's projects (Blackwind, Monarque, Sui Caedere and Carrion Wraith), it is pure unpolished cold Northern trance as it was always intended.