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Horrible History Metal: "The Big Gloom" is about the death of Jean-Paul Marat, the event depicted on the album cover.

Heterosexual Life-Partners: Dan and Tim, they even referenced their friendship on The Unnatural World with the song "Dan and Tim, Reunited By Fate".

"Defenestration Song" almost sounds like The Sisters of Mercy could have done it.

Goth Rock: A noticeable influence on The Unnatural World.

Golem: "Earthmover" is about an army of golems destroying the earth, yet wishing for death themselves.

God is Dead: All of mankind comes together to literally murder him in "Bloodhail".

Epic Rocking: Very few of the band's songs are under 5 minutes long.

The End of the World as We Know It: "Bloodhail" describes an apocalyptic rebellion against God, while "Earthmover" depicts an army of golems destroying the world by physically tearing apart the land and mountains.

Echoing Acoustics: A big part of their Signature Style.

Drone of Dread: "Waiting for Black Metals Records to Come in the Mail" begins with one, while "The Future" has some droning feedback in the background that becomes increasingly louder as the song continues.

Distinct Double Album: Deathconsciousness is divided into two discs, with the first being called "The Plow That Broke the Plains", and the second called "The Future".

Despair Event Horizon: "I Don't Love" is about teetering on the edge of this and considering suicide.

Deliberately Monochrome: The cover of The Unnatural World, as well as the vinyl version of Deathconsciousness.

The golems in "Earthmover" play it straight.

Death Seeker: The Antiochean cult was based around a complex and somewhat ambiguous form of this rather than wishing for death, they wished for release from an existence that could only end in death.

Creator Thumbprint: Count on every Dan Barrett project to come packaged with a lengthy booklet expounding upon the concept of the album.

The Unnatural World has a similar booklet, centered around spiritualism.There's almost no evidence outside of the album booklet that this cult or the Books of Terror and Longing ever really existed, so the whole thing can be read as an elaborate work of metafiction. Concept Album: Deathconsciousness is a loose one, based around The Books of Terror and Longing, the religious texts of a medieval cult called the Antiocheans who were persecuted by the Catholic Church for their heretical beliefs, which included denying the existence of heaven and possibly of God as well.Broken Record: "We kill everyone with arrowheads, arrowheads, arrowheads, arrowheads.".Boléro Effect: "Hunter" and "Earthmover" both feature lengthy post-rock style crescendos.Apocalypse Wow: "Earthmover" gives this impression, being the longest and most grandiose song on Deathconsciousness while describing the destruction of the world.They cannot die or feel pain, but wish for death so they can be released from an existence that consists only of mindless destruction. And I Must Scream: The golems in "Earthmover".All There in the Manual: The 70 page album booklet for Deathconsciousness, which contains a lengthy essay, supposedly by a professor of religious history whom the band contacted, about the history of the Antiochean cult from which the album draws many of its themes.All-Loving Hero: God in "Hunter" forgives mankind even as he lays dying of arrow wounds, and allows all the animals on earth to devour his flesh as a final act of love for his creation.Album Intro Track: Despite being one of the longer songs on the album, "A Quick One Before the Eternal Worm Devours Connecticut" effectively functions as this for Deathconsciousness.Arc Symbol: Arrowheads, which appear twice in "Bloodhail" with the lyric repetition of "Arrowheads" and "Hunter", which focuses on Humanity killing God by sending a "Great Hunter" to shoot him with his arrow.We kill everyone with tropes, tropes, tropes, tropes, tropes.: