Although deemed thrash metal rather than black metal by today's standards, the album's lyrics and imagery focused more on anti-Christian and Satanic themes than any before it.

Additionally, he is one-third of the infrequent, live-only musical extravaganza the Three Terrors ensemble, whose other principal members include 69 Love Songs album's Dudley Klute and LD Beghtol ; past themes of these performances have included: French pop, movie themes ( including the title song from Deep Throat ), intoxication, and New York.

Concept albums are usually based on either one theme or a series of themes in connection to the original thesis of the album's concept.

The painting clearly influences many of the album's core themes and song titles.

The album's avant-garde soundscapes kept it from being a blockbuster, but the interesting lyrical and musical themes — retellings of horror stories and poetry by Edgar Allan Poe — attracted a cult audience.

The album's themes are:

The cover of Play with Toys depicts an opened beer bottle, signifying alcohol use, one of the album's reoccurring themes.

Recorded largely in Lord's home-away-from-home, the city of Cologne, the album's themes are Elgarian and alpine in equal measure.

A considerable portion of the album's concept was built upon violent subject matter, yet Bone also incorporated deeper themes, as its songs dealt with more spirituality and occult mysticism.

Regarding the album's themes, Joel has stated " It was during the Reagan years, and the diminishing horizons in America at the time that all of a sudden you weren't going to be able to inherit kind of life your old man had.

While not a concept album, many of the album's songs were inspired by dystopian themes and films such as V for Vendetta, Dark City, Soylent Green, and Equilibrium.

Clark was lauded for the album's musical arrangements as well as themes and style ; in their review of the album, The AV Club noted: " There's a point where too much happiness turns into madness, and St. Vincent's multi-instrumentalist Annie Clark knows this place well ".

The album's themes revolve around death and judgement, and reveal that the fate determined by the Riddle Box can be found by looking deep within yourself, and can be changed with righteous actions.

Whereas the eponymous concept album's lyrics focus on human struggle and astronomical themes, A Beautiful Lie < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s lyrics are more personal and the music introduces intense screaming vocals and synth effects.

The album's themes include those of desolation, deprivation, and, above all else, alcoholism.

The album's lyrical themes would continue through their next record, This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours.

Despite the album's incongruity in the Bowie catalogue, some commentators have discerned embryonic themes that inform the artist's more mature work.

As well, the album's lyrical themes began to move away from nature and Satanic elements and began to incorporate more mystical themes.

Remarking on the album's themes in 2008, Gabel said: " you get to an age where you get discouraged with dreams like in a band and you're told you're never going to be able to do anything like that, and you start to feel like there's a closed door, and when I started to feel that way, I went ahead and started doing my own thing.

Some of the album's lyrical themes were derived from Grant's personal perspective of working in a menial supermarket job on a daily basis (" Day In Day Out "), his experiences after gigs on their US tour (" Insomnia " and " You're My Evergreen "), past relationships ( the title track and " Dry "), the music industry (" Hole in My Head ") and " fear of commitment in relationships " (" Anaesthetic ") amongst others.

The album's central theme was the unjust nature of the death penalty and other major themes included mass media monopolization, the prison-industrial complex and corporate globalization.

The album's songs deal with numerous themes.

Its inclusion in the article is important because it illustrates overviews of the album's tracks ( including " Not About Love "), most ( if not all ) of whose lyrics revolve around romantic relationships.

The album's run in the charts was not complete either ; on 7 March 1987, almost 23 years after its original release, Beatles for Sale re-entered the charts briefly for a period of two weeks shortly after the first CD release on 26 February 1987.

The album's subject matter deals almost exclusively with the Holocaust including songs about Auschwitz and Josef Mengele.

The recording hiatus ended in 1999, with the album Strange Times, which proved to be the group's first album in almost two decades to be more than moderately received by UK critics, although Justin Hayward was quoted as saying he was disappointed at the album's chart performance – probably not helped by the long recording hiatus – which was notably less than ' Keys of the Kingdom ' in 1991.

The album's budget was a small amount by the label's standards ($ 8, 000 ), but in the end the cost was almost twice its original budget.

It was accompanied by her biggest tour in almost a decade, with her daughter Bailey Tzuke on backing vocals, and collaborations with other musicians, such as Gareth Gates on piano ( Gates also co-wrote the album's track " Dark Days " with Tzuke ).

In 2000 BMG Australia released a remaster of Days of Innocence, titled Days Of Innocence-The Ultimate Collection, a collection of all the tracks from the entire Days of Innocence album ( reproducing its original cover art ), with the addition of almost a full album's worth of bonus tracks including a couple non-LP single sides and highlights from the Matinee album including " Never ".

Being prolific songwriters, they almost had an album's worth of material ready before the debut record was released in every corner of the world.

After the album's release, Marks left and was replaced by Steven Riley, who subsequently left early in the recording of the band's second album to join W. A. S. P., and was in turn replaced by Dwain Miller, forming a lineup which would remain stable for almost 4 years.

The album's writing and pre-production phases were stressful periods for the band, and at one point almost led them to retire.

After 4 more months of silence, almost a year after the album's initial release date, guitarist Robert Davis confirmed that Revis had disbanded.

However, Sniff ' n ' The Tears fractured almost immediately after the album's release ; in a matter of months, Birkin, Fealdman and Salvoni all left the group to pursue other interests.

I love the album's repetitive, almost pagan feel.

Darkane toured extensively following the release of Expanding Senses, and by early 2004 had almost an entire album's worth of songs written.

The album's setlist contains almost all of Crime of the Century ( except for " If Everyone Was Listening "), three songs from Crisis?

Tony Levin almost exclusively used a Chapman Stick to record the album's bass parts.

Upon its release, their one and only album was seen as an almost complete departure from the music Zakk was known for with Ozzy, but the album's dominant Southern rock sound proved to remain a prevalent influence on Zakk's own music up to and including the debut Black Label Society album Sonic Brew.

They recorded all the instruments on the album's 13 songs themselves, using drum loops to hide the fact that neither is a drummer, and almost everything on the record was recorded one track at a time in an ordinary bedroom.

The album came with a bonus DVD which contained music videos for almost all of the album's songs, excluding " Enemies ", " Gangsta Dedication " and "?".