What is your favorite concept album and why?
For those unsure as to what a concept album is; it's an album where all the musical or lyrical ideas/attributes are centered around a single unifying theme or story. A good example of this is Operation: Mindcrime by Queensr˙che, where the songs tie together to tell the story of how the protagonist, Nikki, ends up being controlled and used by the Dr. X for the doctor's own personal gains under the auspicious of doing the world a favor by ridding it of corrupt and evil people.
For me, I think my most favorite one is The Dark Saga, by Iced Earth, because of the correlation of the album and songs to the comic book and toy character Spawn. I really enjoyed the lightness on the melodic parts with a not obtusely heavy series of rifts and beats to counteract. Both light and heavy parts seem to hit at the right time with the flow of the song(s) so that it's powerful, but not too much. This video shows what I mean.
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