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2 | [[caption-width-right:350:"We're Ego Likeness. [[BadassBoast We're going to wreck your fucking life."]]]] |
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4 | Ego Likeness is a Darkwave/Industrial Rock band from UsefulNotes/{{Baltimore}}, Maryland. It was formed in 1999 by Steven Archer and Donna Lynch, the same year as their marriage. |
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6 | Their music is darkly atmospheric, often lyrically at the cynical end of SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism, while their songs refer to subjects from sources such as Myth/ClassicalMythology, Abrahamic religions, horror films, and science-fiction literature. After all, they did take their name from ''Franchise/{{Dune}}''. |
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8 | They have toured extensively with Music/{{Angelspit}}, Music/{{Ayria}}, Music/TheCruxshadows and Music/{{Voltaire}} throughout Europe and North America and are currently signed to Metropolis records. |
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10 | '''Discography:''' |
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12 | '''Albums''' |
13 | * ''Songs From A Dead City'' (Demo 1999 and re-released in 2018) |
14 | * ''Dragonfly'' (2000 and re-released in 2012) |
15 | * ''Water To The Dead'' (2004) |
16 | * ''Order Of The Reptile'' (2006) |
17 | * ''Breedless'' (2010) |
18 | * ''When The Wolves Return'' (2015) |
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20 | '''The ''Compass'' series of Extended Plays''' |
21 | * ''South'' (2007) |
22 | * ''West'' (2008) |
23 | * ''North'' (2009) |
24 | * ''East'' (2012) |
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26 | '''Singles''' |
27 | * ''The Lowest Place On Earth'' (2008) |
28 | * ''Treacherous Thing'' (2012) |
29 | * ''New Legion'' (2015) |
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31 | In addition to their music, Steven is a painter and Donna a novelist and poet. Their website is [[http://www.egolikeness.com/ here]]. |
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34 | !Tropes relating to Ego Likeness: |
35 | * TheAntiNihilist: "Save Your Serpent...[=---=]..." encourages this attitude: |
36 | --> Build no temple\ |
37 | Just remember\ |
38 | What you came from\ |
39 | Who you are\ |
40 | And you're owed nothing\ |
41 | Just feel lucky\ |
42 | To leave a trace of who you are. |
43 | * AnimalMotif: Wolves are mentioned throughout their discography and are portrayed as both [[SavageWolves violent beasts]] and [[NobleWolf noble creatures]]. |
44 | ** Birds in "Aviary." |
45 | ** A sillier version, both designs of their "Garbage Witch" shirts prominently feature opossums. |
46 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: From the chorus of "Burn Witch Burn": "You've connived and deceived and learned how to read." |
47 | * BookEnds: The first and last songs from ''Dragonfly'' end with "Does that answer your question?" [[labelnote:*]]It's a sample from ''Film/DeadRingers''.[[/labelnote]] |
48 | * BurnTheWitch: "Burn Witch Burn," of course. |
49 | * CoverVersion: Of "[[Music/TheSistersOfMercy Afterhours]]," "[[Music/ThePolice Tea In The Sahara]]," "[[Music/PJHarvey Down by the Water]]," and "[[Music/TheCars Drive]]." |
50 | * CrapsackWorld: "Funny Olde World," "Song For Samael," and "Burn Witch Burn" all depict the world this way. |
51 | * DarkWave[=/=]{{Industrial}}: They skim the borders between the two. |
52 | * {{Determinator}}: "Raise Your Red Flags": |
53 | --> Burn your white flags\ |
54 | Refuse to surrender\ |
55 | Then raise your red flags\ |
56 | To remember. |
57 | * TheDogBitesBack: "16 Miles" is about a woman who flees after killing her [[DomesticAbuse abusive husband]]. |
58 | * DontYouDarePityMe: A non-aggressive example in "When the Wolves Return": |
59 | --> I don't want pity\ |
60 | That would make it all about me. |
61 | * [[ButterflyOfTransformation Dragonfly Of Transformation]]: The album ''Dragonfly'' has an overarching theme of personal rebirth. |
62 | * FeministFantasy: "New Legion" is a feminist DarkFantasy, with the first verse on the exploitation of women, and the second verse calls on various female monsters [[PayEvilUntoEvil to punish the wrong-doers]]. |
63 | * FeatheredFiend: Birds are a very sinister symbol in "Aviary". |
64 | ** CirclingVultures: The first verse... |
65 | --> In come the vultures / Through dusty air / To take you down and / Tear the ribbons from your hair. |
66 | ** CreepyCrows: The third verse... |
67 | --> In come the blackbirds / In murders and in droves / To cover you in shadow / As they clean you to the bone. |
68 | ** ThePhoenix: The fourth verse... |
69 | --> And here I come, the firebird / Don't offer up your sorrow / Today you see me crash and burn / But I'll be back tomorrow. |
70 | * HandicappedBadass: A large part of both Donna's and Steven's work, Ego Likeness included, is inspired by their lived experience of having ADHD and mood disorders, respectively. |
71 | * HumansAreTheRealMonsters: They get a lot of mileage out of this trope. |
72 | * {{Instrumentals}}: "Oceans and Bridges." |
73 | * KindheartedCatLover: Released the digital Sophie EP as a sign of gratitude to those who helped them pay for their hairless cat Sophie's vet bills. |
74 | * LighterAndSofter: "Funny Olde World" is a (relatively) up-beat song for them. |
75 | * LocationThemeNaming: The ''Compass'' [=EPs=] are named for the cardinal directions. |
76 | * TheLostLenore: A particularly disturbing example in "I'm Not Mary Ann." |
77 | * MysticalWhiteHair: Donna's bleached white hair deliberately [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this image. |
78 | ** WhiteHairBlackHeart: Likewise, Donna invokes this in the "Treacherous Thing" and "New Legion" videos. |
79 | * OfCorsetsSexy: Donna frequently wears corsets live and also on the cover of ''Breedless''. |
80 | * OneWomanWail: "Aurora." |
81 | * RedOniBlueOni: In the "Treacherous Thing" video, Donna is the red and Steven is the blue. |
82 | * ReptilesAreAbhorrent: "Save Your Serpent...[=---=]..." is aversion. Snakes here are a symbol of UsefulNotes/{{Existentialism}}. |
83 | ** Subverted again in "Funny Olde World," here referring to [[Literature/GoodOmens a certain angel who did not so much fall as saunter vaguely downwards]]: |
84 | --> It would seem you're just a snake / With an angel's heart. |
85 | * ShoutOut: Their name is one to ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'', as is their album and song ''Water to the Dead''. |
86 | ** One of the b-side is called "[[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland I'm Not Mary Ann]]." |
87 | ** "Funny Olde World" as in [[Literature/GoodOmens "It'd be a funny old[e] world, he reflected, if demons went round trusting one another."]] |
88 | ** Likewise, "You'd Better Leave the Stars Alone" is about ''Literature/{{Stardust}}''. |
89 | ** "Leave a Light On, Thomas" takes its name from a quote in ''Film/TheProphecy''. |
90 | * TheSomethingSong: "Song to the Divine" and "Song for Samael." |
91 | * StockholmSyndrome: "I'm Not Mary Ann." |
92 | * SurrealMusicVideo: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R5MuQh3BSw Treacherous Thing]]" has one. |
93 | * TearsOfBlood: Donna in "Treacherous Thing" bleeds from her BlackEyesOfEvil, coupled with a SlasherSmile. |
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