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On September 13, 2012, Ghostface Killah announced that his new studio album would be titled Twelve Reasons to Die, and would be produced entirely by Adrian Younge, and executive produced by RZA. He also announced a release date of November 20, 2012 through RZA's Soul Temple Records.[1][2][3] The album would be pushed back from its original November 20, 2012 release date so it would not compete with the soundtrack to RZA's film The Man with the Iron Fists.[4][5]

During an interview Adrian Younge revealed that Twelve Reasons To Die will serve as the score to a vintage Italian horror film, that takes place in 1968. He also cited RZA and Italian composer Ennio Morricone as two of the inspirations behind his production on the album.[6] Younge took two weeks to write the foundation of all the tracks.[7]

The album's story is set in 1960s Italy of a character of Ghostface Killah, Tony Starks. He is an enforcer for the DeLuca crime family, who is murdered by his former employers after striking out on his own and falling in love with the kingpin's daughter. His remains are melted in vinyl and pressed into a dozen LPs that, when played, resurrect him as the Ghostface Killah, a force of revenge incarnate.[8][9]

 

[Nymphae]

 

[SlaughterX]

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On September 13, 2012, Ghostface Killah announced that his new studio album would be titled Twelve Reasons to Die, and would be produced entirely by Adrian Younge, and executive produced by RZA. He also announced a release date of November 20, 2012 through RZA's Soul Temple Records.[1][2][3] The album would be pushed back from its original November 20, 2012 release date so it would not compete with the soundtrack to RZA's film The Man with the Iron Fists.[4][5]

During an interview Adrian Younge revealed that Twelve Reasons To Die will serve as the score to a vintage Italian horror film, that takes place in 1968. He also cited RZA and Italian composer Ennio Morricone as two of the inspirations behind his production on the album.[6] Younge took two weeks to write the foundation of all the tracks.[7]

The album's story is set in 1960s Italy of a character of Ghostface Killah, Tony Starks. He is an enforcer for the DeLuca crime family, who is murdered by his former employers after striking out on his own and falling in love with the kingpin's daughter. His remains are melted in vinyl and pressed into a dozen LPs that, when played, resurrect him as the Ghostface Killah, a force of revenge incarnate.[8][9]

Honestly didn't know all that about this album, but enjoyed it nonetheless.

 

[Cosmic Smash]

 

[The Bloody-Nine]

I very much like 'Seventh Son of a Seventh Son' by Iron Maiden.

 

[teezzy]

The Downward Spiral, Year Zero, and The Fragile

My holy trinity

 

[Loke]

Catch Thirtythree by Meshuggah. Amazing lyrics and the great thing about the album is that it's one 47 minutes long continuous song.

 

[Master Of Illusion]

The album that almost killed Genesis (and perhaps the first nail in the coffin for prog rock's mainstream relevance).

So good.

 

[EverydayBeast]

 

[Jesus Carbomb]

 

[I_D]

I'm not super familiar with the term, but Google suggests that this is basically just prog-music in which each song relates to another.
If that's the case, it's my favorite genre of music.

If that's not the case, listen to these albums anyway.


Opeth's "Ghost Reveries"


The Who's "Tommy"


Wishbone Ash's "Argus"


Queensryche's "Operation Mindcrime"


Pink Floyd's "The Wall"






And I have many more to choose from, if these suit anybody's fancy.

 

[Dark Star]

The Mars Volta is KING for conceptual awesomeness



http://www.mtv.com/news/1497564/mars-voltas-conceptual-frances-the-mute-speaks-volumes/

Instead of looking at the album as an idea, they see it as a character, a resurrected body based on the thoughts of a stranger seeking to find his adopted parents, written in a diary found by former bandmember Jeremy Ward (who later died in 2003) while working as a repo man. The diary wasn't finished, so Ward took it upon himself to finish it for the unknown writer. From there, the band says it's bringing it to life, via five seamless songs called "Vismund Cygnus," "The Widow," "L'Via L'Viaquez," "Miranda That Ghost Just Isn't Holy Anymore" and "Cassandra Gemini" that together clock in at 77 minutes.

Pretty much every Coheed and Cambria album is a legitimate concept album since the singer, Claudio Sanchez, basis the lyrics in a cohesive story from his sci-fi comic books The Amory Wars

 

[Classicrockfan]

Dream Theater-scenes from a memory

 

[ScarletSpider]

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[Scotty W]

The Downward Spiral by NiN is an effective concept album for drama queens to looking to induce mental illness.

 

[Ailynn]

I would consider this one, from probably my all-time favorite band. ❤

 

[Droxcy]

The Stage - Avenged Sevenfold

The Stage (album) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[nikolino840]

an album of the stories of the Silmarillion by Tolkien

 

[nikolino840]

I'm not super familiar with the term, but Google suggests that this is basically just prog-music in which each song relates to another.
If that's the case, it's my favorite genre of music.

If that's not the case, listen to these albums anyway.


Opeth's "Ghost Reveries"


The Who's "Tommy"


Wishbone Ash's "Argus"


Queensryche's "Operation Mindcrime"


Pink Floyd's "The Wall"






And I have many more to choose from, if these suit anybody's fancy.

Yeah a concept album Is an album with the songs connected like a novel,or i don't know you can call also a thematic album
The Wall Is a perfect example

 

[Cosmic Smash]

ToaFC is the band’s fifth album, released in 1980, and like all preceding and indeed all following Project works is a concept album. In this case the concept is the temptations of gambling. Parsons and Eric Woolfson, the partnership that underpinned the Project, both lived in Monte Carlo within walking distance of the big casinos.

 

[Happosai]

70's-early prog-rock groups were really into this. Here are some of my favourites (you can probably find most in full on YouTube):

1. Kayak-Merlin (Side A only...The first five tracks are the concept album and loose story of a younger Merlin)

2.Yes-Tales of Topographical Oceans

3. King Crimson-Islands

4. Renaissance -Scheherezade and other Tales

5. XTC-The Big Express (Not really all prog...but...a concept album about features in their hometown of Swindon, England)

6. Mike Oldfield-Five Miles Out & Crises (both albums set a year apart from each other are two types of concept album in context. Five Miles Out deals with Mike and his touring bands real-life experience with a near plane accident he was in. Crises the album themes around his struggles with panic disorder, anxiety, and depression)

This is my first NeoGAF post. Thanks for reading!

 

[Sorcerer]

 

[I_D]

And, of course, Therion, the kings of thematic albums:








And, if nothing else, you MUST listen to this album. It's one of the greatest albums ever made.
Progressive-psychedelic-rock-metal-folk-blues-bluegrass.... it has it all. Just ignore the ridiculous "spiders, snakes, and little mice" lines, and you're golden.

 

[YCoCg]

Hey, what if based an album around a long drive on the outskirts of LA where somebody is just changing radio stations every now and then?

 

[#Phonepunk#]

The Who Sell Out might be my favorite Who album. so psychedelic. the concept was that the Who ran a radio station and that it was a parody of pirate radio stations, which were illegal radio stations people ran that were sometimes literally offshore. the album actually uses some jingles from British pirate radio stations in the '60s. the songwriting is masterful throughout, across cool psych pop songs and jingles for fake ads. they ended up recording enough material for 2xLPs, so if you find the remaster it has a lot of great songs that were unreleased at the time.



the 60's was a good time for concept albums. The Turtles had the idea to pretend to be different bands and put out a fake compilation with Battle of the Bands. this album spawned the hit single Elenore, which was written to be a parody of a pop song.