Einherjar86
Active Member
Well, an album that has a storyline is by definition a concept album; but not all concept albums have storylines.
Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime has an obvious storyline (you can read it in the booklet, I believe), and by definition several common themes (brainwashing, media, commercialism, totalitarianism, crime, forlorn love, etc.). Thus, it is a concept album with a storyline.
Other albums like this are:
Every single fuckin' Rhapsody album (but they're still cool,
)
Kamelot's Epica and The Black Halo
Turisas's The Varangian Way
Pyramaze's Legend of the Bone Carver
All Bal-Sagoth's albums
Tobias Sammet's Avantasia albums
Blind Guardian's Nightfall in Middle Earth
and older albums like Jethro Tull's A Passion Play, and Genesis's The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
However, Primordial's To the Nameless Dead is purely a concept album. There is no definite storyline that progresses throughout the album, but all the songs deal with common themes of nationality; sacrifice, war, imperialism, conquest, etc.)
Other albums like this are:
In Flames's Colony and The Jester Race
Sieges Even's The Art of Navigating By the Stars
Therion's Secret of the Runes
Bathory's Nordland albums
and older albums like Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, Jethro Tull's Thick As a Brick and their Folk Trilogy, and Genesis's Selling England By the Pound
Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime has an obvious storyline (you can read it in the booklet, I believe), and by definition several common themes (brainwashing, media, commercialism, totalitarianism, crime, forlorn love, etc.). Thus, it is a concept album with a storyline.
Other albums like this are:
Every single fuckin' Rhapsody album (but they're still cool,
)Kamelot's Epica and The Black Halo
Turisas's The Varangian Way
Pyramaze's Legend of the Bone Carver
All Bal-Sagoth's albums
Tobias Sammet's Avantasia albums
Blind Guardian's Nightfall in Middle Earth
and older albums like Jethro Tull's A Passion Play, and Genesis's The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
However, Primordial's To the Nameless Dead is purely a concept album. There is no definite storyline that progresses throughout the album, but all the songs deal with common themes of nationality; sacrifice, war, imperialism, conquest, etc.)
Other albums like this are:
In Flames's Colony and The Jester Race
Sieges Even's The Art of Navigating By the Stars
Therion's Secret of the Runes
Bathory's Nordland albums
and older albums like Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, Jethro Tull's Thick As a Brick and their Folk Trilogy, and Genesis's Selling England By the Pound
