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**Yewb** · Joined: 10 Jan 2008 Posts: 3020 Location: Plymouth, UK

Ayreon's The Human Equation is the best concept album I've heard this side of Colors. For those who don't know it, it details the psychological and emotional rebirth of an angry and embittered man following a near-death experience, and it's well worth a listen, forced though it often seems.

It seems that if you make a new last.fm account and tell it your favourite genre of music is progressive metal, it will play "Day Sixteen: Loser" relentlessly. This is one of the reasons the album is as well known as it is.

My avatar is a hastily-made MS Paint parody of the album art of The Human Equation.
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**catfish7** · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 927 Location: North Florida

Oh you prog rockers... I'd go with Southern Rock Opera by The Drive-By Truckers. Good shit Miroki.
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**Twang** · Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 7:29 am Post subject:

Speaking of Mastodon, Blood Mountain also falls under this category.

Queens of the Stone Age's Songs for the Deaf is a must. There's no overarching story per se, but it's based on the concept of driving through the desert.

Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson is also pretty good, but you lose a bit of the effect if you don't know French. It's about a 40 something year old millionaire who runs over a young (talking like 16 or 17) girls bike and eventually falls in love with her.

And if you're really looking for epic stuff, you're looking in the wrong genre, man. Find yourself Wagner's Ring Cycle (four whole operas). It is epic incarnate. But again, you lose a bit of the effect if you don't know German (or whatever language it's in). I'm sure you've heard Ride of the Valkyries before, that's just one tiny part in the whole thing. Most operas tell epic stories. Wagner is certainly not the only one, and maybe not even the best.

Coheed and Cambria's entire discography is part of an overarching storyline. It is obviously still a work in progress, but I think it deserves a mention in this thread.

Deltron 3030. I know it's cool for kids these days to hate rap, but this album alone makes it a respectable genre, which is not to say at all that it's the only good rap album. It's about a man (Deltron Zero) in the year 3030 (hence the title) where the world is ruled by some corporation, and he raps about his conquests and stuff, rap battles to save the universe. All with really good beats produced by none other than Dan The Automator. You may have heard Del's rapping before, he was the rapper in Gorillaz' Clint Eastwood, and is one of my personal favorites.

Sleep's Dopesmoker (also known as Jerusalem in segmented form). 1 song, 1 hour and 6 minutes. Stoner metal incarnate. It's about holy priests in Jerusalem on a weed run.

Hank! On Ice! is a project by a friend of mine, which he recorded for an RPM challenge (where you record an album in a month). It's about a sea captain on a whaling expedition. The sparse lyrics speak of dudes being dead and walking around Sea World all day. I don't know the rules about posting download links here, but I have all the songs uploaded to YouTube, and included a link in the description of every one of them. Also includes a folk/bluegrass cover of Outkast's Hey Ya!

Graf Orlock's Destination Time series aren't really concept albums, but their self-coined "cinema-grind" style uses 80s/early 90s action movie samples to paint a bleak picture of the future.

Gojira's From Mars to Sirius follows a character who sees the world end and sets out on a journey to find the Flying Whales so they can teach the character to fly. Said character flies to Sirius C, where the 'Master Race' teaches him to restore life to his home planet. [pretty much c/p'd from Wiki].

The Lord Weird Slough Feg's (or just Slough Feg) album Traveller is based on the board RPG of the same name.

Wolves in the Throne Room's Two Hunters. According to the vocalist/guitarist: "the concept is about man and bear in pre-historic times, and their struggle for better or worse. Man won-out with his cunning and intelligience."

**Fugitive** · Joined: 20 Aug 2007 Posts: 3035

Hospice - The Antlers

Yeah, I'm advertising the hell out of this album, but I'm the only one and it deserves it. It's a concept album with deep themes of every emotion one could feel. It's about a husband that has to watch his wife die, slowly, of bone cancer in the hospital and the effect that it has on one hospice. The album is deeply sad, but the band doesn't want sadness to be the only emotion taken from it. I recommend this to any and everyone. I would not just listen to any one song, as the band has chosen the song Two to be a single, just because the album fits so masterfully well together.

**Yewb** · Joined: 10 Jan 2008 Posts: 3020 Location: Plymouth, UK

**Nubnut** · Joined: 07 Jun 2008 Posts: 2078 Location: Denver, CO

Bah how has this not been mentioned yet?

Ghost Reveries - Opeth.

Seriously, I put it up there amongst the top 3 death metal albums of all time. And easily one of the most epic prog albums ever. The switches it makes between the light and heavy moments of the album (not so much happy and sad, seeing as the entire album is depressing, except to an extent Isolation Years).
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**iam1337** · Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 243 Location: Welland, Ont

How about American Idiot by Green Day
The storyline of Jimmy is pretty good IMO
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**blackwidowcd** · Joined: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 1717 Location: Bucketheadland

Buckethead - Inbred Mountain

GENIOUS
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**Rickjames730** · Joined: 25 Nov 2007 Posts: 1000 Location: Denver, Colorado

Meddle, and Wish you were here = awesome. I never really liked The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon really gets too much gratification compared to some of Floyd's other albums.

Symphony X has 'The Odyssey'; it's pretty epic.

Operation Mindcrime by Queensryche is pretty good too.

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