Album Review 1 - The Emptiness by Alesana

The Emptiness is the third studio album by metalcore band known as Alesana released on January 26 2006 through Fearless Records. This album was one of the best selling albums for the band as it claimed the 68th position on the Billboard chart upon its release.

The story that The Emptiness revolves around was written by Lee and Milke. It is inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's last poem "Annabel Lee". The story is said by the band to be set in the onset of the 20th century and is expounded greatly in the liner notes album. The central character of the story, a sketch artist known simply as "The Artist" wakes up one day to find his lover, Annabel, dead, lying beside him. Heartbroken and terrified, he buries her in his basement and flees. He wanders aimlessly until he comes to a tavern, where he hears the sounds of merriment and laughter. He decides that if he can't be happy no one can and slaughters everyone in the tavern. After wandering through many places and finding Annabel's killer, "The Thespian", at the end of the story The Artist finally comes face to face with him to fight to the death. He is stabbed in his side with a dagger and finds himself in a room with Annabel holding a dagger in hand. From here on the story's point of view switches from The Artist to Annabel where she explains that The Artist had slowly been sinking into madness all this while, as he became more and more withdrawn and his sketches more and more violent.

In my opinion, this album is one of the greatest music pieces I've ever heard, each track is following the story piece by piece, my favorite songs are: The Murderer, The Lover and To Be Scared By An Owl. The other songs are also so catchy and with deep meaning. I hope you enjoyed the album review even though its short ^-^

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