| 1 | The Emptiness is a concept album by American Post-hardcore act {{Alesana}}. It concerns an artist (The drawing kind) who wakes up to find he's murdered his lover. |
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| 4 | * AlbumTitleDrop: In ''Curse of the Virgin Canvas'' and ''Hymn For the Shameless'' the line "The Emptiness will haunt you" |
| 5 | * AxCrazy: The artist goes this way in ''The Murderer'' |
| 6 | * EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Aside from Annabel, the only other three named characters are "The Artist", "The Thespian" and "The Lover" |
| 7 | * {{Gaslighting}}: By the Thespian to the Artist. |
| 8 | * KarmaHoudini: The Thespian kills the Artist wife, tricks him into thinking he did it, and triggers a murderous rampage, and ends up winning the fight with the Artist [[spoiler:If he wasn't a hallucination that is.]] |
| 9 | * MadArtist: The Artist. Complete nutter butter. See Sanity Slippage on this page. |
| 10 | * SanitySlippage: The whole thing is kinda a [[SanitySlippageSong Sanity Slippage Album]] [[spoiler:Subverted in that the protagonist was already off his flipping rocker, and is [[MindScrew Hallucinating about going insane]] ]] |
| 11 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The Artist when he first lays eyes on his dead Annabel. |
| 12 | * MercyKill: [[spoiler:Annabel kills The Artist during the climax of the story, to relieve him of his insanity spawned hallucinations.]] |
| 13 | * WhatHaveIBecome?: "Lord forgive me.../...I'm a monster!" Subverted [[spoiler:he doesn't become a monster. Just a psycho-killer.]] |
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