Your favorite concept album

[JesusChristPose]

Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory
POS - Concrete Lake
Savatage - The Wake of Magellan

 

[MacMoney]

Amorphis - Tales from the Thousand Lakes

 

[nevermore169]

Nevermore - DNB

 

[Blackspirit]

Evergrey - In Search of Truth

 

[Lina]

a concept album means it's all linked by a story or idea, right? seems like everyone's just posting their favorite album; i didn't know a lot of these would qualify.

 

[Blackspirit]

Originally posted by Lina
a concept album means it's all linked by a story or idea, right? seems like everyone's just posting their favorite album; i didn't know a lot of these would qualify.

There are a lot of albums I love that I know are
concept albums, but I don't like them for the concept....
I didn't know "Still Life" was a concept album for a really
long time, suddenly I started reading about Opeth and
discovered what it really was about.

I heard Evergrey's album and really liked it, then I read it
was a conceptalbum and I started paying attention to
the lyrics. Now I feel I can relate to some of the things
there, but I put different things into them than being
abducted by aliens... )

 

[Melancholia]

Opeth-My arms your hearse

oh,i had no idea dreaming neon black was a concept album...
I think i will get this album soon....

 

[HoserHellspawn]

Originally posted by Lina
a concept album means it's all linked by a story or idea, right?

Yeah, that's right. Which ones don't you think qualify? (I'm not familiar with a good few of them, so...)

 

[Lina]

Originally posted by HoserHellspawn

Yeah, that's right. Which ones don't you think qualify? (I'm not familiar with a good few of them, so...)

well, i'm not familiar with many of them either, but i was surprised by amorphis' tales and evergrey's. those are two i've listened to many times and never paid attention to the lyrics, i guess.

 

[requiem]

Cradle of Filth- 'Cruelty and the Beast'.

Definitely my favourite concept album (that currently springs to mind).

 

[The_Wanderer]

Opeth-Still Life
Ayreon-All albums

 

[my dying groom]

Dornenreich - Her Von Welken Nächten
Ulver 'trilogy' - Bergtatt/Kveld./Nattens Madrigal

 

[Opet]

My Arms, Your Hearse was really the first concept album that ever really hit me as truly outstanding. Maybe it's because it was the first time I heard music so dark as Opeth's, but it stands out from the rest for me.

"It was me, peering through the looking-glass.
Beyond the embrace of Christ."

 

[Useful Idiot]

Meshuggah - Chaosphere
Edge of Sanity - Crimson
Opeth - Still Life
Fredrik Thordendal - Sol Niger Within

 

[Claire's Horror]

Originally posted by Lina
well, i'm not familiar with many of them either, but i was surprised by amorphis' tales and evergrey's. those are two i've listened to many times and never paid attention to the lyrics, i guess.

"Tales..." is based on different Finnish traditional stories, but I don't really know if that actually counts as a concept album. guess it doesn't.

 

[Nico16]

Mine are:
Enslaved - Monumension
and
Opeth - Still Live

"Tales..." is based on different Finnish traditional stories, but I don't really know if that actually counts as a concept album. guess it doesn't.

the same goes for Dying Fetus' Destroy the Opposition: all the lyrics are about political themes, but that doesn't make it a concept album. It is (or was) just their style of lyrics (at least on their last few albums)