History Main / IdiosyncraticAlbumTheming

* Music/HundredGecs: The titles of most of the releases by the duo are "(multiple of 100) gecs", with their first EP being a SelfTitledAlbum, their first studio album being "1000 gecs", and "10,000 gecs" being the second one.

* Music/HundredGecs: Most of the releases by the duo are "(multiple of 100) gecs", with their first EP being a SelfTitledAlbum, their first studio album being "1000 gecs", and "10,000 gecs" being the second one.

* Music/HundredGecs: Most of the releases by the duo are "(multiple of 10) gecs", with their first EP being a SelfTitledAlbum, their first studio album being "1000 gecs", and "10,000 gecs" being the second one.

* Music/{{Mastodon}}'s first four albums each had an [[ElementsOfNature elemental]] theme: ''Remission'' is fire, ''Leviathan'' is water, ''Blood Mountain'' is earth, and ''Crack the Skye'' is aether.

* [[Music/JGThirlwell Foetus]] titles every album with a single four-letter word.

* Every CD by Music/{{Nightwish}} has an AlbumTitleDrop.

-->--'''Joseph Vargo''', Music/NoxArcana

* Each of Music/TheHappyFits’s albums has a different fruit on the cover.

* Music/{{BROCKHAMPTON}}'s ''SATURATION'' trilogy all have songs with {{one-word title}}s of the same number of letters except for the closing tracks.

* Music/{{America}} once gave seven consecutive albums titles beginning with the letter H. Later in their careers, they did four more in a row like that.

* As the above quote attests, all of Music/NoxArcana's albums have exactly 21 tracks. [[DealWithTheDevil We do hope he's joking]], though. In addition, all of the albums have at least one HiddenTrack. (Sometimes two. Sometimes three.)
* All of Midnight Syndicate's albums end with a HiddenTrack consisting of sound effects and voices.
* Each Buzz-Works album has 19 tracks.
* Every CD by Music/{{Nightwish}} has an AlbumTitleDrop.
* There is a song about wolves on every album by Sonata Arctica. This has led to them earning the nickname "Wolf Metal band".
* Every Music/WeirdAlYankovic album has one polka medley (except three: his first, his fifth, and one which has a polka cover of "[[Music/{{Queen}} Bohemian Rhapsody]]" instead) and (generally) one song about food and TV.
** Also each of his regular albums follows a pattern of alternating parody songs with original songs

* Every Music/{{Epica}} studio album has an intro between 90 seconds and two minutes long, and starting with The Divine Conspiracy, there is also a similar interlude about halfway through. Each album also ends with an unusually long composition, which is also the title track on every album except for Requiem for the Indifferent.
* Every album by Music/ChildrenOfBodom has their [[{{Mascot}} mascot]], [[TheGrimReaper the reaper]], on its cover.
* Morten Veland of Sirenia must love the number seven - all of the band's albums have at least one song with 7 in the title. ''At Sixes And '''Sevens''''' has the title track, ''An Elixir For Existence'' has '''Seven Sirens''' And A Silver Tear, ''Nine Destinies And A Downfall'' has '''Seven''' Keys And Nine Doors, and ''The 13th Floor'' gives us both Winterborn '''77''' and Sirens Of The '''Seven''' Seas.

* Music/FiveIronFrenzy: On their first four albums, the sixth track would be a joke: either less than ten seconds long, improvised-in-the-studio nonsense, or both. However, they broke with that tradition for their last four albums.
* Music/{{Starflyer 59}}: The credits of every single release feature the single-sentence dedication, "All praise and glory to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ", in lieu of a "The band would like to thank..." section. Ever since ''Leave Here a Stranger'', band members are only referred to by their last name and first initial: J. Martin, J. Cloud, F. Lenz, etc.
* Every Music/DemonHunter album cover features their logo--a stylized, bisected demon head--rendered in a different style or medium.
* Every Music/{{Lordi}} album has one or more songs about HeavyMeta.
* Every album by Music/TheWhiteStripes contains a song with the word "Little" in the title.
** And their album art is always some combination of red, white, and black (and sometimes gray).
* X-Ray Dog. Let's look at album names: "Bonz Unleashed", "Prime Cuts", "Sit Up And Listen", "Fresh Meat", "New Tricks", "Mad Dog", "A Breed Apart", "Doggie Style", "Dog Party", "Canis Rex", "Dog Eat Dog", "Hellhounds", "Bites Bark Growls", "Dog Gone Wild", "Best in Show", "Mighty Dog", "K-9 Empire", "Cerberus", "Boneyard", "Alpha Dog", "Dog Rock", "Dogs of War". It looks like they [[OverusedRunningGag doggedly pursue]] one theme.
* [[{{Music.America}} America]] once gave seven consecutive albums titles beginning with the letter H. Later in their careers, they did four more in a row like that.
* Almost all releases by The Jesus Lizard have four-letter titles such as ''Goat'' or ''Liar'' - the exceptions are a self-titled EP and a few singles named after their A-sides. They also carried this on to the compilation ''Bang'' and the live album ''Show'' (maybe calling it ''Live'' would have been too obvious).
** Even their one single (technically a split with {{Music/Nirvana}}) was named "Puss."
* Every Music/DreamTheater album cover includes the Majesty logo in some shape or form.
* Music/DeepPurple has six albums in a row (from their second, ''The Book of Taliesyn'', to their seventh, ''Who Do We Think We Are'') that feature seven tracks each.
* Music/{{Mastodon}}'s first four albums each had an [[ElementsOfNature elemental]] theme: ''Remission'' is fire, ''Leviathan'' is water, ''Blood Mountain'' is earth, and ''Crack the Skye'' is aether.

* With only three exceptions (''Kill 'em All'', ''St. Anger'', and ''Hardwired...to Self-Destruct'') every Music/{{Metallica}} album has a ballad as the fourth track. Even the CoverAlbum. Also, every album that has a TitleTrack has that as the second song (except ''Hardwired'', where the song "Hardwired" is the first song).
* Similarly, Music/SteveVai always places a ballad as track number seven, and WordOfGod says it's intentional.

* Music/BradPaisley's first three albums had covers of gospel songs as the final track. The second through fifth also had interstitial skits featuring country music singers and/or actors.
* Every Music/BritneySpears album except for her debut and third ends on a ballad or a slightly softer lighter beat than the rest of the album. (Dear Diary, Everytime, Why Should I Be Sad, My Baby, Criminal)
* Music/NickiMinaj's ''Pink Friday'', the first of which was entitled ''Pink Friday'', and the following ones adding on various different subtitles.
* Every Music/DeltaGoodrem album ends on a thank you song (Angels In The Room, You Are My Rock) and a softer note (Will You Fall For Me, Angels In The Room, You Are My Rock). She is also not fond of smiling on her Album Covers. She always opens her albums on a positive note, both single wise and tracklist wise.
* All of ''Black Majesty'''s albums have cover art featuring a mysterious cloaked and masked figure, though the first album ''Sands of Time'' featured a slightly different design of the character. Starting from ''Silent Company'', the character is always accompanied by a lion.
* Brazilian band Skank released four albums in a row with 11 tracks (they denied being a [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball soccer]] reference, only saying they at the time felt "10 was too short and 12 too long"). Also, all but one of their albums has a OneWordTitle.
* The title tracks of Music/{{Enya}}'s albums were all instrumentals until her sixth, ''Amarantine'', broke the chain.
* The first three albums by Music/TheDivineComedy have closing songs that refer to death.
* On each of Music/{{Tyler The Creator}}'s albums before ''Cherry Bomb'', the names of the last and first track make a phrase: "Inglorious ''Bastard''", "Golden ''Goblin''", "Lone ''Wolf''".
* All of Jamey Johnson's albums except for his debut album ''The Dollar'' have the word "Song" in the title (''That Lonesome Song'', ''The Guitar Song'', ''Living for a Song: A Tribute to Hank Cochran'', and ''The Christmas Song'').
* The front cover of every Pure Prairie League album features a painting of "Sad Luke", a cowboy character first created by Creator/NormanRockwell for a 1927 ''Saturday Evening Post'' cover.
* Music/TheOcean has titled almost every album as an adjective with Latin roots. Fluxion misses the mark as an early on album but still has a cool name.
* Music/{{Chicago}} has numbered many of their albums. According to Wikipedia, the band has 36 canon albums and many of them are numbered. The exceptions are albums 1, 2, 4, 12, 15, 20, 22-24, 27-29, and 31.
* Music/{{Megadeth}}'s first three albums all had eight tracks and a CoverVersion. Their NewSoundAlbum ''Rust in Peace'' abandoned both of these trends.
* Music/{{Our Lady Peace}}'s first four albums feature an artist's model named Saul Fox on the cover. He also made cameo appearances in some of their music videos.
* Music/{{CHVRCHES}}'s first two full-length albums include an AlbumTitleDrop.
* Music/GarthBrooks always puts his favorite song off each album at the very end. This is why, when his first six albums were reissued as a box set in 1998, the bonus tracks were slotted in the middle instead of the end.

* Several Music/{{BTS}} albums are released as part of a series or trilogy (the School Trilogy, ''The Most Beautiful Moment in Life'', ''LOVE YOURSELF''), with all forming part of an overall ComingOfAge narrative.
** All of the Korean albums also have an Intro sung or rapped by a single member (except for ''Skool Luv Affair'', which essentially has all three rappers rap, but with RM getting the "main" role) and an Outro performed either by the vocal line or the rapper line, not both. This is later averted in their 9th album ''BE'', which neither has an Intro or an Outro; nor is part of any series.
* Music/TaylorSwift is well-known for having a tradition of making the fifth song on every album an emotional ballad of some kind, which her fans call a "track five". Many articles have been written about this habit of hers, which began unintentionally.

* The tenth track on every Music/TylerTheCreator album is a multi-song medley.

* Up until 2006, the Barenaked Ladies recorded one song on each album naked.

* Every Music/{{Lordi}} album has one or more song about HeavyMeta.

* Every Music/BritneySpears album except for her debut and third ends on a ballad or a slightly softer lighter beat then the rest of the album. (Dear Diary, Everytime, Why Should I Be Sad, My Baby, Criminal)

* Every Music/DeltaGoodrem album ends on a thank you song (Angels In The Room, You Are My Rock) and a softer note (Will You Fall For Me, Angels In The Room, You Are My Rock). She is also not fond of smiling on her Album Covers. She always opens her albums on a pdositive note, both single wise and tracklist wise.

* Music/TheOcean has titled almost every album as an adjective with latin roots. Fluxion misses the mark as an early on album, but still has a cool name.

* Each of Music/TheHappyFits’s albums have a different fruit on the cover.

* Every Music/DeltaGoodrem album ends on a thank you song (Angels In The Room, You Are My Rock) and a softer note (Will You Fall For Me, Angels In The Room, You Are My Rock). She is also not fond of smiling on her Album Covers. She always opens her albums on a positive note, both single wise and tracklist wise.

* Music/TheHappyFits: Each album and EP has a different fruit on the cover.