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The Agonist (Music)

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The Agonist (formerly known as The Tempest) was a Canadian Melodic Death Metal/Metalcore band from Montreal, characterised by topical lyrics, complex guitar work and a female lead who can sing (well) in both clean and growling vocals.Their lyrics often consider themes such as animal rights, social injustice and other contemporary issues. This fits in with the band's name: "agonist" means challenger.In March of 2014, Alissa White-Gluz announced that she had been chosen as the next frontwoman for Arch Enemy. She also revealed that the band - as fans knew it - was "over", and that Vicky Psarakis would be taking over as vocalist. Though the change has inevitably produced some backlash, the band have taken it in stride and produced two albums since: Eye of Providence in 2015, and Five in 2016. After bouts of touring, The Agonist went into production of their sixth album Orphans, released September 20, 2019. Their final EP, Days Before The World Wept, followed in 2021. These last two releases were shortlisted for the Juno heavy metal album of the year in 2020 and 2022 respectively.The band would call it quits in May 2023, citing financial issues and creative burnout, but remain friends. Vicky is now co-fronting her other band Sicksense, while Kells is moving into video production and Danny is taking a break from band work to spend more time with his family.
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All Men Are Perverts
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All Men Are Perverts: Apparently, Simon tried hitting on Alissa at his audition. Might have just been a one-off though.
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Darker and Edgier
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Orphans boasts a Darker and Edgier return to the heavy, complex stylings of Lullabies and Prisoners particularly with more emphatic drumming and diversified vocal work, as well as far more prominent Technical Death Metal elements.
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Protest Song
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Protest Song: Again, lots of them.
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Male Band, Female Singer
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Male Band, Female Singer: First with Alissa White-Gluz and later with Vicky Psarakis.
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The Cameo
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The Cameo: Youri Raymond from Cryptopsy and Unhuman on Lullabies for the Dormant Mind. Also Melina Soochan, Avi Ludmer and Jonathan Lefrancois Leduc (Blackguard) performing additional instruments. Their producer even got in a few sneaky Metal Screams on their first single "Business Suits and Combat Boots." In turn Alissa has cameo'd in songs for Synastry, The Plasmarifle, Blackguard, Erimha and Kamelot! You can see her wearing a Plasmarifle t-shirt at the end of the "Business Suits" music video.
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Villain Song
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Villain Song: “The Villain�, naturally. It focuses on a "Not So Different" Remark (“I’m no villain, I am just like you!�) with a measure of Hoist by His Own Petard thrown in.
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In the Hood
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In the Hood: Danny, quite often (though not when he is on stage).
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Deal with the Devil
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Deal with the Devil: "Remnants in Time" and "Immaculate Deception" both pose the question of what someone would be willing to sacrifice in return for more life. The music video for "Remnants In Time" takes the metaphor even further, featuring Vicky in an actual devil mask.
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New Sound Album
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New Sound Album: They love this trope: Lullabies for the Dormant Mind was overall faster and had less emphasis on breakdowns, along with a more pronounced Melodic Death Metal influence. Prisoners had more Progressive Metal influences than its two precursors. This probably has to do with them being from the Canadian Death Metal scene, which is big on the more aggressive prog metal. Eye of Providence was the most varied, but was generally more melodic than Prisoners. Five verged on being a concept album, and had a simpler but much grimier sound (especially in the vocals). Orphans boasts a Darker and Edgier return to the heavy, complex stylings of Lullabies and Prisoners particularly with more emphatic drumming and diversified vocal work, as well as far more prominent Technical Death Metal elements.
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Title Track
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Title Track: Orphans is the first album to have one. The closest they got beforehand was two instances of Album Title Drop: "Ideomotor" (We are all prisoners of waterfalls) and "My Witness, Your Victim" (We will attend the eye of providence).
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Apathetic Citizens
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Apathetic Citizens: Alissa's Berserk Button. Vicky also touches upon this in the likes of "The Chain" and "The Gift of Silence".
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Bilingual Bonus
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Bilingual Bonus: Vicky sings a slightly tweaked Title Drop of "Blood As My Guide" in her native Greek: Με οδηγό το αίμα.
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The Mothman
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The Mothman: "Mr. Cold" is all about this, including even dropping the Trope Namer.
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Minimalistic Cover Art
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Minimalistic Cover Art: Orphans has only the O of the Vicky-era band logo gracing its cover.
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Vocal Evolution
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Vocal Evolution: Alissa started out with deep grunts (compare with Angela Gossow's earlier Arch Enemy material) in Once Only Imagined. In Lullabies for the Dormant Mind, she has developed her voice to chameleon-level Metal Scream, able to pull off all 4 types within a single song (e.g. "...And Their Eulogies Sang Me to Sleep"). Since Prisoners she has stuck to Type 1 with the other types as embellishment, as with her live performances. Vicky, pre-Agonist, used to stick to Type 4 in some of her metal covers. In Eye of Providence she honed her Type 1 soaring on a range as high as Alissa's type 3. Her Harsh Vocals in Five are a grimier and more forceful Type 1 with moments of Type 4, particularly in "The Man Who Fell to Earth". As of Orphans Vicky has mastered Types 2-4 (the last one being her favorite) with less winded high screams and low growls almost outmatching Alissa's, including outright gutturals more comparable to someone like Mallika Sundaramurthy or Marie-Helene Landry.
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Humans Are Flawed
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Humans Are Flawed: A theme in many of their songs ("Thank You, Pain," among others). Alternatively, Humans Are Bastards: "Rise and Fall," "The Sentient."
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Your Princess Is in Another Castle!
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Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: "Born Dead, Buried Alive" sounds like it's about to end on a long, fading guitar chord, then cuts back in and plays for another 30 seconds. "Ideomotor". See Epic Rocking above. The video for "A Gentle Disease" ends after Vicky sings, but the album version continues on with Danny's low arpeggio on the acoustic.
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Concept Album
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Concept Album: Five comes close to being one. And the songs on the Days Before The World Wept EP focus on themes of mortality, death and resurrection.
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Gratuitous French
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Gratuitous French: At the end of "Martyr Art," and at the start of "Revenge of the Dadaists." Less gratuitous than most, however, seeing as they are from Quebec. "Martyr Art" - Accablées de misère en décembre, les muses se baignent en flammes. Noyées dans l'ombre elles disparaissent, attendant le divin pientre de l'Univers, le Soliel "Revenge of the Dadaists" - Sont-ils prisonniers? Devrais-je les libérer?
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Concept Video
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Concept Video: "Thank You, Pain" (verging on surreal).
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Humans Are Bastards
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Alternatively, Humans Are Bastards: "Rise and Fall," "The Sentient."
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Costume Porn
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Costume Porn: Alissa's stage outfits. Usually averted by Vicky.
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Ethereal Choir
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Ethereal Choir: "Swan Lake" is an ethereal choir of Alissas. Also in the background of quite a few other songs, such as "Predator and Prayer".
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Ask a Stupid Question...
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Ask a Stupid Question...: When asked by an interviewer what the most important thing to have with him when inspiration struck was, Danny replied "For music? A guitar. For lyrics? A pen."
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Progressive Metal
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Prisoners had more Progressive Metal influences than its two precursors. This probably has to do with them being from the Canadian Death Metal scene, which is big on the more aggressive prog metal.
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Walking Disaster Area
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Walking Disaster Area: An alarming number of their gigs have coincided with various natural disasters. It's possible that Alissa is just The Jinx, given that there have been no notable disasters since she left the band, but on her first tour with Arch-Enemy she broke her ribs.
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Scenery Gorn
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Scenery Gorn: Parts of the "Orphans" video, aptly for its literary Shout-Out, were shot at the roofless ruins of a church.
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All Drummers Are Animals
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All Drummers Are Animals: Despite his thing for Klatchian Coffee, Simon is actually a friendly, funny guy. All Men Are Perverts: Apparently, Simon tried hitting on Alissa at his audition. Might have just been a one-off though.
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We Used to Be Friends
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We Used to Be Friends: Alissa and the guys do NOT want anything to do with each other anymore.
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Tomboy with a Girly Streak
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Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Alissa and Vicky are two different flavors of this. Alissa's girly streak tends to show in her preference for Costume Porn during photoshoots and live gigs, and continues to do so beyond her Agonist tenure. Vicky, meanwhile, prefers practical getup but shows her own girly streak foremost in having a more feminine singing voice than Alissa, and secondarily in her love for makeup and having long hair.
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Even the Girls Want Her
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Even the Girls Want Her: Alissa. Also The Charmer, I Didn't Mean to Turn You On and Stupid Sexy Alissa.
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Green Aesop
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Green Aesop: Many of their early songs touch on this ("Business Suits and Combat Boots," "Globus Hystericus" and "The Sentient" being the most obvious ones, though even those tend to deal with a great deal more than just environmental issues).
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Three Chords and the Truth
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Three Chords and the Truth: “The Moment� is, by the band’s standards, very simple, and is coupled with thoughtful, introspective lyrics.
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Metal Scream
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Alissa started out with deep grunts (compare with Angela Gossow's earlier Arch Enemy material) in Once Only Imagined. In Lullabies for the Dormant Mind, she has developed her voice to chameleon-level Metal Scream, able to pull off all 4 types within a single song (e.g. "...And Their Eulogies Sang Me to Sleep"). Since Prisoners she has stuck to Type 1 with the other types as embellishment, as with her live performances.
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Audience Participation Song
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Audience Participation Song: "Thank You, Pain" is an audience participation video casting clean Alissa as a defendant, death-growl Alissa as a judge, and the audience as the jury.
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Zombie Apocalypse
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Zombie Apocalypse: "Feast On The Living" evokes this. The music video even features Vicky as a Creepy Mortician, with the sheet-covered bodies sitting up one by one as she leaves the room.
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Lonely Piano Piece
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Another Lonely Piano Piece opens "Remnants In Time", the first song on Days Before The World Wept. Several other songs on the EP also feature quiet intros before all hell breaks loose.
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Dress Rehearsal Video
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Dress Rehearsal Video: "...And Their Eulogies Sang Me to Sleep", "Thank You, Pain", "Business Suits and Combat Boots", “A Gentle Disease�, “The Hunt� and “Take Me to Church�. “Gates of Horn and Ivory� is a comedic variation, showing the band being forced to prepare for a music video in Hair Metal outfits, before storming out and performing a more traditional one.
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Pep-Talk Song
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Pep-Talk Song: "In Vertigo" and "Blood As My Guide". The latter is an outright battle cry.
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Signature Move
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Signature Move: Kells and Paco have one: holding down the frets of each others' guitars during instrumental sections.
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 The Agonist (Music) / int_6756cf91
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Melodic Death Metal
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Lullabies for the Dormant Mind was overall faster and had less emphasis on breakdowns, along with a more pronounced Melodic Death Metal influence.
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Non-Appearing Title
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Non-Appearing Title: Lots.
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 The Agonist (Music) / int_6788e74a
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Lead Bassist
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Lead Bassist: Kells is a type B.
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Not So Omniscient After All
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Not So Omniscient After All: Covered in "Rise and Fall" and "The Sentient".
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 The Agonist (Music) / int_6ccb6be
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My Car Hates Me
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My Car Hates Me: Their touring van, "the blue hornet", had a habit of breaking down in the worst possible places. Tonight, Someone Dies: They promised to get their revenge by destroying it on film, and took suggestions from fans as to how they should do it. Its fate was finally revealed in a live Q and A: They sold it.
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 The Agonist (Music) / int_6d167cf
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Good Needs Evil
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Good Needs Evil: Discussed in "Immaculate Deception".
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 The Agonist (Music) / int_6f9d7da3
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GrimReaper
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Grim Reaper: Appears in “The Raven Eyes� video as a sinister, balaclava’d figure attending several suicide victims and a sick child. He doesn’t seem to enjoy the job very much.
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 The Agonist (Music) / int_6fbfa62f
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Air Guitar
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Air Guitar: How Danny comes up with his riffs.
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 The Agonist (Music) / int_7160b097
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Dawn of an Era
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Dawn of an Era: Alissa pauses in the middle of "Predator and Prayer" to deliver such a speech, which turns into a Metal Scream by the end. Vicky does the same thing in "The Ocean."
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 The Agonist (Music) / int_7301ae04
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Serial Killer
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Serial Killer: Some of the band's more recent songs like "The Villain", "The Killing I", "A Devil Made Me Do It", and "Burn It All Down" seem to be from the perspective of this trope.
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 The Agonist (Music) / int_73ef9ef3
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Almighty Janitor
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Almighty Janitor: Kells, who provides both bass backing for Danny and Paco, and vocal backing for Alissa/Vicky. He is also very active in engaging the crowd during live shows, handles a lot of band photography and even directs some of their music videos!
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 The Agonist (Music) / int_74149c93
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Epic Rocking
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"Ideomotor". See Epic Rocking above.
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 The Agonist (Music) / int_78e8eba5
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"I Am" Song
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"I Am" Song: "The Ocean", natch.
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 The Agonist (Music) / int_79b5677
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Belief Makes You Stupid
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Belief Makes You Stupid: "Predator and Prayer" takes this line, advocating a more existentialist worldview. "Follow the Crossed Line" has a similar message.
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 The Agonist (Music) / int_7aea8bae
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Murder Ballad
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Murder Ballad: "The Raven Eyes" sounds like one, but since the subject is the Grim Reaper it could also be interpreted as Mercy Kill. Word of the band says that "The Raven Eyes" is inspired by doctors during The Black Death, possibly averting this trope.
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 The Agonist (Music) / int_7f3e75b6
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Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair
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Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair: Discussed in "Globus Hystericus" and also touched upon in "The Tempest" (along with Who Wants to Live Forever?).
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I Didn't Mean to Turn You On
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I Didn't Mean to Turn You On: It's fair to say that the entire band, past◊ and present◊, are a rather attractive bunch.
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 The Agonist (Music) / int_812a2820
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Pink Means Feminine
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Pink Means Feminine: Vicky sports a magenta dress in parts of "The Gift of Silence".
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Bloody Horror
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Bloody Horror: Seems to be a theme with the back half of Orphans. "Blood as My Guide" has a more metaphorical take on the subject. The video to "The Gift of Silence" screams this, treating us to shots of Vicky caked in blood every few seconds.
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 The Agonist (Music) / int_823c6e3e
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Large Ham
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Large Ham: Not prominent in most of the vocal work, but Orphans saw Vicky's clean singing reaching ham levels.
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 The Agonist (Music) / int_82518cf7
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Motor Mouth
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Motor Mouth: Usually during the Guttural Growler sections of songs, more often with Alissa than Vicky.
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 The Agonist (Music) / int_839f38fa
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Morality Ballad
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Morality Ballad: Well, more like Morality Mosh, but a lot of their songs have An Aesop for you to think about.
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 The Agonist (Music) / int_83c9369b
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Simple Score of Sadness
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Simple Score of Sadness: The end of "Business Suits and Combat Boots."
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Red Oni, Blue Oni
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Red Oni, Blue Oni: A minor but noticeable case with the band's singers: Alissa's stage persona was very stern and controlled, while Vicky tends to smile more and mess around with the other band members during instrumental sections.
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 The Agonist (Music) / int_8b1249ea
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AccentOnTheWrongSyllable
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Accent On The Wrong Syllable: Quite frequent on their older releases — Prisoners in particular — probably as a result of squeezing sophisticated lyrics into unconventional rhythms. It's most noticeable in "Thank You, Pain" ("it's not only my afTERlife I bereave" and "think about the STATistics you feed"). This is more or less a result of how Alissa wrote the lyrics and her accent. Ever since Vicky joined this hasn't been an issue due to her more straightforward lyrics on Eye of Providence, Five, and Orphans.
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 The Agonist (Music) / int_919c59b6
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I Am the Band
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I Am the Band: Danny Marino. Possibly unrelated, but since then there has been a notable increase in his liveliness at live performances.
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 The Agonist (Music) / int_92d6af50
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Truck Driver's Gear Change
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Truck Driver's Gear Change: "Chlorpromazine," where Alissa's growl rises to a shriek after the bridge.
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Parodied Trope
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“Gates of Horn and Ivory� is a comedic variation, showing the band being forced to prepare for a music video in Hair Metal outfits, before storming out and performing a more traditional one.
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 The Agonist (Music) / int_9858c391
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Chick Magnet
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Chick Magnet: Paco Jobin (nuff' said) and Alissa is a Clueless Chick-Magnet. (When it comes to guys, Alissa is fully aware of the Chick Magnet status. Just read some of the YouTube comments.)
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 The Agonist (Music) / int_99298c71
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Better to Die than Be Killed
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Better to Die than Be Killed: "The Sentient".
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 The Agonist (Music) / int_9b6acdb3
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Lyrical Cold Open
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Lyrical Cold Open: The opener of "Burn It All Down" is bound to give you a Mood Whiplash.
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 The Agonist (Music) / int_9bcd82c0
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Took a Level in Badass
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Possibly unrelated, but since then there has been a notable increase in his liveliness at live performances.
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 The Agonist (Music) / int_9c1f758a
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Kill It with Fire
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Kill It with Fire: Burn it! Burn it all down!
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 The Agonist (Music) / int_9c5ed17
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Singing Voice Dissonance
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Singing Voice Dissonance: Mostly averted, but you'd be forgiven if you thought Alissa's Type 2 Metal Scream in the epilogue of "...And Their Eulogies Sang Me to Sleep" were from a guy. Vicky becomes an even bigger offender come the finale of "In Vertigo" as well as sections of "The Gift of Silence" and "Orphans".
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A Day in the Limelight
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A Day in the Limelight: "Waiting Out the Winter" (written by Simon), "I Endeavor" (written by Paco).
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: "Synopsis," the slightly Mind Screwy intro from their first album, contains a distorted vocal excerpt of "Rise and Fall." "The Wake" is basically an orchestral prologue to "The Resurrection".
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: In "Trophy Kill" ("Fuck! You! Fucking hypocrite!")
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 The Agonist (Music) / int_9e4c9ed
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Black Metal
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"In Vertigo" starts off with nothing but a soft piano under Vicky's soothing vocals. The band comes in like a sudden tidal wave of Black Metal-esque soundstorm after over 30 seconds.
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Cathartic Exhalation
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Cathartic Exhalation: The very beginning to the video of "As One We Survive".
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 The Agonist (Music) / int_a059270
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Gratuitous Greek
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Gratuitous Greek: "Blood As My Guide" has a section entirely in Greek. Again, not as gratuitous when you know that Vicky Psarakis grew up in Crete. Bonus point for the word "agonist" itself being of Greek origin. (Thank you, Alissa.)
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Digital Piracy Is Evil
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Digital Piracy Is Evil: justified.
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Mood Whiplash
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Mood Whiplash: The band seems to have a thing for starting some of their albums with this. "You're Coming With Me" starts with a soothing acoustic intro before Alissa and the band blast through the silence. "The Moment" is a subtle one that kicks off with a meditative, intoning synth chord that sounds almost detached from the rest from the track ahead. "In Vertigo" starts off with nothing but a soft piano under Vicky's soothing vocals. The band comes in like a sudden tidal wave of Black Metal-esque soundstorm after over 30 seconds. Another Lonely Piano Piece opens "Remnants In Time", the first song on Days Before The World Wept. Several other songs on the EP also feature quiet intros before all hell breaks loose.
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And I Must Scream
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And I Must Scream: Parts of "...And Their Eulogies Sang Me to Sleep" and the first verse to "The Resurrection" seethe with this trope.
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Final Solution
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Final Solution: "Born Dead, Buried Alive" references the Trope Namer. It is probably worth noting that Alissa is of Jewish heritage, and lost family members in the Holocaust.
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Dramatic Pause: In a few songs; sometimes by the whole band (eg. "Lonely Solipsist"), sometimes by Alissa/Vicky alone.
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Creepy Children Singing: Employed in "Predator and Prayer," in a similar vein to Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall."
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Take That!
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Take That!: "The Gift of Silence" and "Dust to Dust" off of Orphans are likely shots at Alissa White-Gluz, more specifically to her perpetual victimhood and continued, ceaseless attempts to leverage connections to sabotage the band after being fired.
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Tonight, Someone Dies
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Tonight, Someone Dies: They promised to get their revenge by destroying it on film, and took suggestions from fans as to how they should do it.
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Indecipherable Lyrics: On occasion. Alissa is aware of this, and has stated that she thinks it would be cool if someone made a misheard lyrics video. Less prominent with Vicky, who started out with a slower growling style. Compare and contrast.
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Precision F-Strike
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Precision F-Strike: All over the place. Usually signifies that Alissa is pissed about something (usually humans in general). So far Vicky has avoided this in the music itself, but does one at the very last second of the video of "As One We Survive".
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Last Note Nightmare
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Last Note Nightmare: In "Everybody Wants You (Dead)." A Mind Screw-y Subdued Section is followed by a discordant wall of noise with Alissa screaming in the background. Subverted by way of a few more lines within the last 20 seconds of the song.
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First Time Feeling
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First Time Feeling: "I Endeavor".
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Couch Gag
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Couch Gag: Kells often introduces the band with "We are the Agonist, and we're here to X", where X is usually an Amusing Injury resulting from The Power of Rock.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: "In Vertigo" is an allusion to Alice in Wonderland. Possibly also a Call-Back to "As Above, So Below". "Orphans" pays homage to We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson.
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Torture Cellar
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Torture Cellar: The music video for "My Witness, Your Victim" features one of these, where a Gas Mask Mook is torturing some poor guy, apparently under orders from a nearby speaker. Dramatic Unmask: The mook then comes to their senses, takes off their mask, revealing Vicky, and smashes the speaker instead.
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Word of God
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Word of the band says that "The Raven Eyes" is inspired by doctors during The Black Death, possibly averting this trope.
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Serial Escalation
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Serial Escalation: The ongoing competition between Alissa's (and now Vicky's) whiplash vocals, the three guitarists' Epic Riffs and Simon's ludicrously fast drumming. Arguably toned down after peaking with Prisoners.
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Lighter and Softer
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Lighter and Softer: Compared to Lullabies for the Dormant Mind and Prisoners, Eye of Providence and Five were toned down to make room for the band to explore new directions with Vicky on board.
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Screw Destiny
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Screw Destiny: "Gates of Horn and Ivory".
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Cover Version
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Cover Version: They’ve done ones for “Monochromatic Stains� by Dark Tranquility, and “Take Me to Church� by Hozier.
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Deliberately Monochrome
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Deliberately Monochrome: The video for "Orphans", with hints of Le Film Artistique.
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Red Filter of Doom
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Red Filter of Doom: Featured in several music videos (often when the screaming kicks in)
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Subdued Section
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Subdued Section: Both within the context of the album ("Chiaroscuro" for Once Only Imagined, "Swan Lake" for Lullabies, "A Gentle Disease" for Eye of Providence and "The Raven Eyes"/"The Wake" for Five), and within individual songs (such as "Void of Sympathy," "Chlorpromazine," and several songs on Prisoners and Five).
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Dramatic Unmask
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Dramatic Unmask: The mook then comes to their senses, takes off their mask, revealing Vicky, and smashes the speaker instead.
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Performance Video
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Performance Video: The videos for “Panophobia� and “Follow the Crossed Line� are made up of clips from the band’s live performances.
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Sixth Ranger
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Sixth Ranger: The two most notable are Pascal (Paco) Jobin, who joined the band in 2010, and Vicky Psarakis who replaced Alissa in 2014.
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Battle Couple
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Battle Couple: As of 2021, Vicky is co-fronting her side project Sicksense with her husband Robby J Fonts.
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Last-Name Basis
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Last-Name Basis: Chris Kells, notable because every other member of the band usually uses their first name.
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Not Quite Dead
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Not Quite Dead: "The Resurrection".
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Pimped-Out Dress
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Pimped-Out Dress: Alissa in the "Thank You, Pain" music video.
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Determinator
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Determinator: They don't stop their gigs for injuries, sickness, car breakdowns, headliners pulling out of tours, or even natural disasters. "As One We Survive" hammers this home, having been first written down at a time when hectic touring as well as food and sleep deprivation (among other things) had almost worn the band down to their last legs.
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The Jinx
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It's possible that Alissa is just The Jinx, given that there have been no notable disasters since she left the band, but on her first tour with Arch-Enemy she broke her ribs.
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Self-Backing Vocalist
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Self-Backing Vocalist: Alissa (and Vicky) since Lullabies for the Dormant Mind. Kells did the backing in Once Only Imagined (and continues to do some at live shows).
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Who Wants to Live Forever?
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Who Wants to Live Forever?: "Perpetual Notion".
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Anti-Climax
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Its fate was finally revealed in a live Q and A: They sold it.
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Lost in the Maize
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Lost in the Maize: Featured at the end of the music video for In Vertigo.
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Soprano and Gravel
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Soprano and Gravel: In this case, both provided by the same singer. Vicky sometimes leaves the deeper Harsh Vocals to Kells. They often exchange gravel on live gigs.
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Master Race
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Master Race: The concept is venomously attacked in "Born Dead, Buried Alive."
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Survival Mantra
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Survival Mantra: We suffer as one. As one we survive.
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Harsh Vocals
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Vicky, pre-Agonist, used to stick to Type 4 in some of her metal covers. In Eye of Providence she honed her Type 1 soaring on a range as high as Alissa's type 3. Her Harsh Vocals in Five are a grimier and more forceful Type 1 with moments of Type 4, particularly in "The Man Who Fell to Earth". As of Orphans Vicky has mastered Types 2-4 (the last one being her favorite) with less winded high screams and low growls almost outmatching Alissa's, including outright gutturals more comparable to someone like Mallika Sundaramurthy or Marie-Helene Landry.
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Textless Album Cover
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Textless Album Cover: All the main albums bar Prisoners (though the band's Spotify has even that album playing this trope straight).
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Friendly Rivalry
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Friendly Rivalry: Kells and Paco occasionally try to one-up each other during live shows.
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Titled After the Song
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Titled After the Song: Inverted with "The Tempest," which was the original band name.
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Beauty Is Never Tarnished
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Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted in "As One We Survive" where we see Vicky looking pretty much tortured while hands come out of nowhere to drag her down and beat her up to a point where she's spewing Blood from the Mouth. But then after every cut focused on tortured Vicky, interspersed with the band's Dress Rehearsal Video scenes, at the very last second we see an actually unhurt Vicky snap (with a Precision F-Strike to boot) and throw her chair at the camera.
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