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I know that there are countless amount of movies/games soundtracks with leitmotifs, but other than that I've never found albums with leitmotifs.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

A Thousand Suns by Linkin Park is a concept album about (nuclear) warfare and the threat of technology to humankind. It starts with an intro song in which the lyrics reference the penultimate song, The Catalyst. And that song itself has an intro track that references back to one of the first songs on the album, Burning In The Skies. The album connects itself back to front and the other way around.

Also, midway through the album, there's a track named Wisdom, Justice and Love, which features a speech by MLK, that gets progressively more distorted as it goes on, going from his normal voice to a completely robotic voice. In the intro to The Catalyst, the exact opposite thing happens, with the lyrics and melody going from robotic to natural sounding. Both these movements are a reference to the thematics of humanity vs. technology.

It's a masterful, underrated album. One of my favourites of all time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Progressive metal is all about leitmotifs. Dream theater specially uses the technique to great effect. Like in Six degrees of inner turbulence or the meta album (each song in the album is in a different other album but construct a separate sequence) 12 step suite, about alcoholism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 41 minutes ago

I'll have to listen again but I don't recall 6doit having any recurring musical phrases that accompany characters or other ideas throughout the album. there is an overture at the beginning that introduces the songs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Hospice by the Antlers and Diamond Jubilee both immediately came to mind, both albums have recurring melodies and interpolations throughout

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

The Dear Hunter, acts 1 through 5.