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Kingcrimsonprog
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Posted: 20 May 2012 at 3:51pm |
A List Of Concept Albums And A Brief
Synopsis Of My Understanding Of Their Stories. Edited by Kingcrimsonprog - 20 May 2012 at 3:54pm |
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Wilytank
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Here's what I can think of
Nocturnus - The Key: Satan raises an army and breaks out of hell to kill God ("Lake of Fire"). He successfully does so ("Standing in Blood"). The earth gets torn asunder ("Neolithic"). Satan synthesizes himself with robotic technology ("Andromeda Strain" and "Enter the Droids"). He goes back in time to kill baby Jesus ("Destroying the Manger"), then returns to the present to rule his kingdom of slaves ("Empire of the Sands"). I know I missed some songs, but they don't all seem to be relevant to the overall vision. More to come later...
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Opeth - Still Life: Years after being exiled from his village, a man risks his life to return to the town to be with the woman he loves.
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid the Omniscient: An alien warlord declares war on Earth, after he is unimpressed with the cup of black coffee they give him. Ulver - Nattens Madrigal: Through the powers of Satan, a man slowly turns into a werewolf. Edge of Sanity - Crimson: In a dystopian future when mankind has the lost the ability to reproduce, the king's wife miraculously gives birth to a daughter, who later grows up to be an evil tyrant-queen of the earth. Make a Change... Kill Yourself - s/t: A tortured misanthrope longingly dreams of, and finally commits, suicide.
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Those are some of my favourite Metal ones though. There are definitley some Prog Rock ones that you missed, most of them more modern ones though.
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dtguitarfan
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First off...TheatER. As to the plot, from what I've heard in interviews it's based on a Greek Myth. Basically, you've got two guys and a girl. Girl is in love with Guy A, but used to have a thing with Guy B, so Guy B is jealous, kills the two of them and makes it look like a murder/suicide. The Fates are pissed because that was their favorite soap opera. So the Fates plant memories in a third guy's head, and he eventually figures out and proves that Guy B actually murdered the two lovers. Metropolis Pt 2: Scenes From a Memory is a modern retelling of this myth. That's the five minute summary. |
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A young guy goes through all kinds of misery (loses his job, his girlfriend leaves, his dad is busy with his new family and doesn�t have time for him and his annoying ass mother keeps yelling at him what a loser he is). So eventually he can�t take it anymore and commits suicide.
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I could have picked any King Diamond album but "Abigail" has always been my favorite:
It�s been a while so I might get some of the details wrong. Please don�t hesitate to correct me. A man (Jonathan) and his young bride (Miriam) arrive at the mansion that he has inherited to start their life together there. Before entering the house they are warned by seven dark horsemen who used to work for the man�s ancestors that the house is possessed and that they shouldn�t enter. Jonahtan laughs at their warnings but the first night at the house Miriam is haunted by the family ghost, who tells her the horrifying story of Jonathan�s ancestors. A tale of infidelity, murder and a stillborn bastard child (Abigail) who becomes a monster. Soon after Miriam is possesed by Abigail and appears pregnant. Abigail plots to be born again by Miriam. Jonathan is encouraged by the family ghost to throw her down the stairs like his ancestor did when he found out his wife was pregnant with another man�s child, but before Jonathan has summoned the strength to do that, Miriam throws him down the stairs and he dies. Soon after Miriam gives birth to Abigail and dies while giving birth. Soon after the seven horsemen arrives to kill Abigail.
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^And Abigail II?
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Evergrey - In Search of Truth - a concept album about alien abduction, the main hero going though the (e)motion trying to understand what has happened to him.
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I like this idea for a thread. I find myself kind of wondering what the actual concept is of some of these stories. Avantasia and Ayreon would both fall under this category, as well as Transatlantic's The Whirlwind and many of Neal Morse's albums. Not to mention The Who's Tommy and Quadrophenia.
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Suidakra - Emprise to Avalon: Tells the story of King Arthur and The Knights of Round Table.
Grave Digger - Excalibur: Tells the story of King Arthur and The Knights of Round Table. Dark Avenger - Tales of Avalon, The Terror: Tells the story of King Arthur and The Knights of Round Table.
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Wilytank
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Allow me to expand on that. A man goes into a black hole searching for a crystal skull. He finds it, then ascends Blood Mountain fighting off wolves, birchmen, hunters in the sky, and something called a bladecatcher. Fortunately, this thing called a Cysquatch, who people claim to be a one eyed Sasquatch but is really a robot (the protagonist figures this out when the Cysquatch speaks and sounds like a robot). He gives the protagonist a strategy guide on how to beat Blood Mountain after successfully navigating a labyrinth. The guide tells him to "DIG! CLIMB! ANCIENT ELM ROOT! RIDE THE VINE OF FATHER GROUND OUR CAVING!" However, he almost dies of hypothermia at the snowy part near the top of the mountain, but the crystal skull lights up and warms the empty climb. At the top of the mountain, the does his thing with the skull, and triggers the next stage in human evolution which, judging by the closer's title "Pendulous Skin", is the appearance of testicles on human males implying that this journey occured millions of years before this album existed.
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Oh, I thought this was gunna be one of those "what are your concept album ideas" we see on PA...but for metal.
The only one I could think of off the top of my head was Crimson by EoS but someone already nabbed that! |
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Megadeth, Metallica, Slayer and Testament. The real Big Four of thrash metal!
Listen to doom metal, worship Satan |
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Dick Delicious and the Tasty Testicles' "Vulgar Display of Obscenity" is a concept album, dealing with the hardships of a Mr. D. Delicious who's been charged with viagrivated assaults on women (or surprise sex, as his lawyer calls it).
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Metallica - St. Anger: A once great band reunites to make the worst metal album ever. There's something about ticking clocks too.
No, seriously though, Metallica actually have a concept album. It's the collaboration with Lou Redd, Lulu. And the story is: The collaboration was originally intended to be Metallica re-recording various previously unreleased tracks Reed had written over the years.[5] Among these unreleased demos was a collection of songs composed for a play called Lulu�a theatrical production of two plays originally written by the German playwright Frank Wedekind.[6] Reed shared the demos of these songs with the members of Metallica to help bring the "piece to the next level,"[7] and the group provided "significant arrangement contributions" to the material from wikipedia
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Whats the story though.
Isn't it about a lesbian in ye olden days who gets murdered by a homophobic playright, or something ? |
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No one talking about the Something Wicked albums?!?!
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Nick Dilley
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Also, you might want to discuss the "concept" pieces that were written over the span of many albums. Dream Theater's 12-step thingy, which was cool, and others. Some are loosely related like Unforgiven 1 - 3, and sometimes they shouldn't really happen, like Hanger 18: part deux.
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Blind Guardian - A Night at the Opera: something about going to an opera house and otehr gay stuff.
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth: Simarillion, elves, dragons, jewelry and some other shit. Cannibal Corpse's whole discography: how to kill somebody, be a zombie and other fun things. |
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