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 ".

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.

The album's themes revolve almost exclusively around the trials and tribulations of success in Hollywood, California ; a theme which had previously been explored in the band's single " Fallen Angel " from their second album Open Up And Say ... Ahh !.

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 story revolved around a junkie who is brainwashed into performing assassinations for an underground movement ; the junkie (" Nikki ") is torn over his misplaced loyalty to the cause and his love of a reformed hooker-turned-nun (" Mary ," vocals by Pamela Moore ) who gets in the way.

The album, and cover were influenced by popular disaster movies around the time of the album's release in 1998, primarily Armageddon and Deep Impact.

Cam ' ron announced that the Diplomat album's release will take place around Christmas 2010.

" Santa Claus Is Watching You " is a re-recording of Stevens ' 1960's pop single and was re-issued as a country single around the time of the album's release and was made into a popular music video.

The album's lyrics centered around comedic material and boasting.

The album's name and lyrical concept were revealed on January 29, 2011 in an interview by DJ JC Green of Metal Messiah Radio's " Heavy Metal Thunder " show with Russell Allen: the follow-up to Paradise Lost will be titled Iconoclast and will have its lyrics centered around " machines taking over everything and all this technology we put our society into pretty much being our demise.

Despite the album's poor sound quality and virtually inexistent label promotion, it created enough controversy around the group to allow them get signed by Cat Music, one of the largest Romanian record labels, paving their way to national superstardom.

The album's thematic structure revolved around their lives as adolescents in Belleville ; examples are songs about wanting to avoid factory work and songs about fearing a potential Persian Gulf War military draft.

Borland contributed the other half of the album's title when the band was standing around at a truck stop, looking at bottles of flavored water, and Borland joked that the truck stop didn't have hot dog or meat-flavored water.

In April 2010, Billy Corgan commented on the album's reception, stating that: " I think the fan response at the time was very positive, as the fans who were around at the time seemed to like Machina II better than Machina I.

However, the popularity of glam metal was on a decline around the time of the album's release due to the rising popularity of the alternative rock / grunge movement.

Kimball had recorded vocals for some of the album's tracks prior to his termination ; sources differ on how many-Kimball says most of the album, whereas David Paich and Steve Lukather say around 3 or 4 songs.

The album's sales have been driven not only by its popularity with Hawaiian audiences but by its popularity in the mainland United States and around the world, particularly the track " Over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World ," which has been licensed for use in movies ( Finding Forrester, Meet Joe Black, 50 First Dates, Fred Claus, Hubble 3D, Son of the Mask ) television shows ( ER, Cold Case, Jon & Kate Plus 8, Life On Mars, Glee ), and commercials ( eToys ).

Following the album's release, Fleshcrawl played a few shows around central Europe with bands such as Carnal Forge, Dismember, Enslaved, and Jungle Rot, and also played several metal festivals including the Protzen and Queens of Metal Open Air festivals.

Guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen, a friend and former bandmate of Scott's, joined Failure around the time of the album's release.

The album's cover features three scantily-clad versions of RuPaul, and the back cover features her legs with panties around the ankles ; these are the " three ho's ".

Keyboardist Darren Wharton also quit around the time of this album's release.

His fifth album, In ogni senso ( In Every Sense ), released in April 1990, attracted more than two hundred journalists from around the world to the album's press conference launch in Venice.

The album also dabbles with New Wave, a genre that was emerging in Britain around the time of the album's recording.

Their second album, 2005's 2nd W, released not even ten months after their first album, contained an even balance of new W originals and more Showa period classic J-pop cover songs, many of them topically centering around the end of the duo's teenage years ( Kago turned 17 a month before the album's release ; Tsuji would turn 18 that June ).

Reviewing the album's double CD incarnation for Allmusic, Sean Westergaard wrote, " Frank Zappa [...] was one of the finest and most underappreciated guitarists around.

The album's structure was based around the concept of the musical octave.

He explains the album's concept in its liner notes: " The album is based around my interpretations of the musical characteristics of the wives of Henry VIII.