Concept? Write your own..

Joking aside, here are some of the real concept/themed albums I create during the brief four year period when I made music :

• Wake - the first music I ever created and recorded, based on the subject of death an it's aftermath (well, I was a Goth at the time), contains all 13 seconds of "The penultimate battle triumphant as the immortal emperor entombed in the woods of the carpathean forest creates necrophobic mayhem at the gates of marduk's darkthrone and nevermore shall thorns rest on thorns I lay against borknagar’s green carnation until we see the anathema that is hecate enthroned with my dying bride at bal sagoth’s ancient ceremony and the infantile hordes are nested in their cradle of filth (part 1)" as its closing track.
• Spunos - seven track album centred on the number seven, with each track lasting exactly seven minutes - based on a long since deleted eNovel what I wrote called Darqlands that noted the amusingly amazing number of references to the number seven in the world. Each track is a musical vignette of each of the seven main characters of the story. No direct reference to Hawkwind's Seven by Seven, just another No.7 coincidence.
• Moirai - three track album based on each of The Three Fates ... no direct reference to ELP's debut album and the similar themed triad there contained.
• Antiquarian - six track album on the neolithic monuments of Cornwall - based a little on Julian Cope's book The Modern Antiquarian.
• The Gaia Cacophony - a three disc set about the creation, evolution and progression of Earth as an enclosed biosystem.
• Incidental - the soundtrack to a life.
• Eponymous - a heroic tale of an eponymous hero who goes out and does something heroic and then returns to a heroes welcome.
• The Mathematica Cacophony - another conceptual musical tryptic spanning three discs, each covering a different eras of development in applied mathematics and its relationship to music and astronomy - no connection to Mike Oldfield's Music Of The Spheres at all (I did my album first).
• Ffrantic -  a loose concept on progress and the increasing pace of life in the 21st century.
• Kinesis, Masks, Shadows - three separate albums (ie not a tryptic or a 'Cacophony' as I pretentiously call them) that follow a theme of Body Language, non-verbal communication and our attempts to hide them.
• Impasse - the concept is ecology - it's an Ecological Song.
• Carousel - a tale of a demonic circus.
• Nonentity - kind of a postscript to Mathematica, explores Dark Matter and the stuff of universes and what existed before the Big-Bang ... call it a divide by zero error.
• Trilition - Damian Wilson's pronunciation of Tri-lithon as Trilli-thon on Ayreon's Universal Migrator (pt 1) made me giggle so I had to write an album about these enigmatic stone structures, which ended up as a short Sci-Fi story about the discovery of a Stonehenge-like construction on the Moon in the year 2409.
• Voracious - a simple tale of mass consumerism and mankind's propensity to crap in his own nest.
• The West/Wind Cacophony - another three-disc concept album covering linking the mythologies of three different and geographically unrelated cultures by their common anthropomorphising of the West Wind into physical form (Xolotyl, Yaponcha & Zephyrus) - in my research for this (yes, I do research these subjects! ) I found 64 different deities and mythical creatures relating to the wind.
• Fluidic - a follow-up to the Gaia Cacophony expanding the self-regulating Gaia system into a fludics based computing system that speculates that underlying the Gaia Hypothesis could be a form of artificial intelligence. This piece unashamedly steals musical themes from the former recordings,
• Landscapes - not so much a concept, but a themed album of the four seasons, in their wiccan form (Imbolc, Beltane, Lammas and Samhain).
• Oligarch - as the previous album was a modern take on Vivaldi, Oligarch does the same for Holst, but for the smaller bodies that orbit the Sun, known as the Trans-Neptune Objects. This album was composed a year before Pluto was down-graded from a Planet to a TNO so rather coincidentally like Holst, Pluto is missing from my suite too. Though not explained in the link, the title comes from the idea that these bodies, though insignificant in themselves, may collectively have had an impact on the development of the Solar System as we know it (and thus on the development of life on Earth).
• Pilgrim - loosely based on John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, this album ignores the main plot-lines of the Book concerning Cristian (and later his wife Cristiana), but follows a minor character, Mr Valiant-For-Truth, and his journey to the Celestial City.

And finally an unfinished album started way back in 2002 called Edge that was/is about the tricky and perhaps taboo subject of self harm or "cutting". Perhaps I'll finish it one day, (if I ever return to making music )

This is a concept about a boy and his three chums and their adventures at Hodwarts School of Pottery.