Line #6 Music/SubwayToSally


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3	German FolkMetal band founded in 1992. Credited with [[TropeCodifier codifying]] the genre "medieval rock" as we now understand the term.
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5	'''The band currently consists of [[LuckySeven seven]] members:'''
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7	* Eric Fish - wind instruments, lead vocals
8	* Michael "Bodenski" Boden - acoustic guitar, guitar, backing vocals
9	* Michael "Simon" Simon - acoustic guitar, guitar, backing vocals
10	* Ingo Hampf - guitar, lute, mandoline
11	* Almut "Ally" Storch - violin
12	* Silvio "Sugar Ray" Runge - bass
13	* Simon Michael Schmitt - drums
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16	!! Subway To Sally provides examples of:
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18	* AllAreEqualInDeath: "Auf dem Hügel" describes a cemetery where everyone, parents and children, murderers and righteous men, "sleep" side by side.
19	* AntiLoveSong: "Feuerland", "Komm in meinen Schlaf", "Wehe Stunde", "So Fern So Nah", "In Der Stille".
20	* AudienceParticipationSong: "Julia und die Räuber", "Horo" and "Schrei" for example.
21	* BloodKnight: "Kämpfen wir!", a [[ProudWarriorRace vikings]]' anthem.
22	* BodyHorror:
23	** The titular "Kleid aus Rosen" seems to be roses sewn right into the girl's skin.
24	** The titular "Knochenschiff" is made of bones and flesh, and it has a heart beats with a leak in the rib cage under the deck.
25	* BrokenBird: "Kleine Schwester" describes a helpless, still and void girl, says that no one hears her silent screaming, and asks her what tool has ripped her wounds.
26	* CainAndAbel: "Grausame Schwester" is about the older sister killing the younger.
27	* CallBack: "Das Rätsel II" consists of references to their previous songs.
28	* CrapsackWorld: "Warte, warte". HumansAreBastards. Just wait a little until they hunt you down.
29	* DarkIsNotEvil:
30	** "Das Schwarze Meer" is all about the beauty of the dark and stormy sea.
31	** Darkness is presented as something comforting in "Ins Dunkel".
32	** The LivingShadow from "Umbra" doesn't seem evil either.
33	* DealWithTheDevil: "Mephisto" fulfills your every dream, makes golden honey from concentrated poison, heals you from the thirst for knowledge, lends you meat and drink, and so on; the song ends with him reminding that you have written with blood, so now he's coming for your soul.
34	* DeathSeeker: The titular "Knochenschiff" longs for a reef.
35	* DespairEventHorizon: "In kaltem Eisen": the narrator apparently killed his lover, has no memories of the act, and is absolutely devastated.
36	* DrivenByEnvy: "Grausame Schwester" is jealous of the beauty of her younger sister and kills her because of it.
37	* DrivenToSuicide: "Wo Rosen Blüh'n" ends with the narrator deciding to join his dead lover.
38	* DrumsOfWar: In "Die Trommel", the MagicMusic of the drum leads people into the battlefield against their will.
39	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The majority of songs of their first album are in English.
40	* EvilLaugh: In "[[ManipulativeBastard Puppenspieler]]" and at the end of "[[OurVampiresAreDifferent Unsterblich]]", Eric Fish does a sinister and very smug laugh.
41	* EveryoneKnowsMorse: In "S.O.S.", naturally, the morse code is used throughout the song.
42	* FadingIntoTheNextSong: Most of ''Mitgift'' and ''Hey!''
43	* FlyingDutchman: "Knochenschiff", the [[BodyHorror ship of bones]] on an endless journey [[DeathSeeker to find it's reef]].
44	* ForDoomTheBellTolls:
45	** "Schlagt Die Glocken" begins and ends with an ominous bell toll, fitting the lyrics.
46	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMPzNq6dBrI Live version]] of [[MurderBallad "Wenn Engel Hassen"]] starts with it as well.
47	* GratuitousLatin: "Accingite Vos", "Ad Mortem Festinamus", "Imperator Rex Graecorum".
48	* GriefSong:
49	** In "Wo Rosen Blüh'n", the narrator mourns the death of a loved one and [[ReligionRantSong reviles God for taking them away]].
50	** "Schwarze Seide" also starts with the narrator mourning the death of a loved one. Then, [[MummiesAtTheDinnerTable he digs her up and brings her home]].
51	** "In kaltem Eisen" mixes it with MurderBallad as the narrator apparently murdered his lover, has no recollection of the deed, and is devastated by the loss.
52	* HeavyMithril: They have quite a few songs about supernatural monsters and horrors.
53	** "Knochenschiff" seems to be a variation of the FlyingDutchman.
54	** "Unsterblich" is about a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]].
55	** "Umbra" is about a LivingShadow.
56	** "Grausame Schwester" and "Bis In Alle Ewigkeit" feature [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghosts]].
57	** "Wolfstraum" is about [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves]].
58	** "Die Trommel" and "Grausame Schwester" feature MagicMusic.
59	** "Voodoo" is sung from the perspective of some HollywoodVoodoo practitioner.
60	** "Schwarze Seide" features [[TheUndead something undead]].
61	%%**"Königin der Käfer"
62	* HellIsThatNoise: In "Die Trommel", the sound of the drum hypnotizes the narrator and later haunts and terrifies him at nights. The song also features creepy background noises.
63	* HollywoodVoodoo: "Voodoo" mentions sticking needles in an effigy of the victim, setting it on fire, and so on.
64	* HumansAreBastards: "Warte, warte" seems to be about werewolves and vampires until the WhamLine: all of them are none but people who hunt people.
65	* IAmSong: "Das Rätsel" and "Das Rätsel II".
66	* LargeHam: Singer Eric Fish is this on occasion.
67	* LaserGuidedKarma: The video for "Sieben" ends with the serial kidnapper himself getting trapped in his own house.
68	* LightIsNotGood: "[[MurderBallad Wenn Engel Hassen]]". Witnesses say that the murderer had the glow of an angel, and the chorus is about hateful angels taking revenge on mankind.
69	* ListSong: "Sieben". The narrator has everything in seven: hounds and ravens, doors and locks, chains, and kidnapped women.
70	* LivingShadow: The narrator of "Umbra" is someone (or something) who came out of the shadows and avoids the light.
71	* LuckySeven: "Sieben". The narrator has everything in seven: hounds and ravens, doors and locks, chains, and kidnapped women. Cause seven is his number.
72	* LyricalColdOpen: "Hohelied".
73	* LyricalDissonance:
74	** "Im Weidengarten" is such a tranquil, even tender MurderBallad.
75	** [[AntiLoveSong "Wehe Stunde"]] is also peaceful.
76	** "Nichts Ist Für Immer" has a blithe tune for a song about dying. Well, there is a note of acceptance: the fear and the wounds aren't made to last forever.
77	* NeverBeHurtAgain: The narrator of "Kaltes Herz" says he changed his old heart so it is cold and hard as stone and doesn't hurt anymore.
78	* NonAppearingTitle:
79	** "Fatum", "Hohelied", "Puppenspieler", "Kleid aus Rosen", "Mephisto", "Angelus", "Voodoo", "Minne", "Narben".
80	** "Umbra" is a ZigZagged example: the title is dropped in another language.
81	* NonIndicativeName: Despite having an English name, the band's lyrics are German (or Latin). Only on their [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness first album]], the majority of songs is in English.
82	* MagicMusic:
83	** In "Die Trommel", the sound of the drum hypnotizes the narrator and makes him act against his will.
84	** In "Grausame Schwester", a harp is made of the body of a murdered girl, so she can reveal the name of her murderer.
85	* ManipulativeBastard: The narrator of "Puppenspieler" brags about manipulating everyone like puppets.
86	* MoralityBallad: "Ad mortem festinamus" says that we are hastening to death, and if we do not change our life through good deeds, we will not be able to enter the Kingdom of God.
87	* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: "Schwarze Seide" is about the narrator digging up his dead lover, bringing her back home and kissing her. And with every kiss, [[TheUndead she wakes up]].
88	* MurderBallad:
89	** "Wenn Engel hassen" is about a man who kills seven people and then, he himself is struck down.
90	** "Für immer": the narrator talks about how he will never forget the beauty and the laughter of the woman he murdered.
91	** "Grausame Schwester" is about [[CainAndAbel sibling murder]].
92	** "Arme Ellen Schmitt" is about a woman killed by her lover.
93	** "In kaltem Eisen": the narrator apparently [[KillTheOnesYouLove killed his lover]], has no memories of the act, and is absolutely devastated.
94	** "Haus aus Schmerz" is written from the perspective of a SerialKiller.
95	** "Im Weidengarten" is about ether murder or [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]] by poison.
96	* ObsessionSong:
97	** "Mir allein", of the aggressive variety: the narrator locked up his crush.
98	** "Sieben" takes it up to seven: the narrator kidnapped his seventh crush.
99	* OminousLatinChanting:
100	** "Accingite Vos" consists of it.
101	** "Wenn Engel Hassen" starts with it.
102	* OurGhostsAreDifferent:
103	** "Bis In Alle Ewigkeit" is about a girl who walks up and down a dark room crying, damned to wander for eternity.
104	** In "Grausame Schwester", after [[CainAndAbel the older sister pushes the younger from a cliff]], the voice of the younger sister is heard through the wind. Two musicians find her body, make a harp out of her hair and bones to free her song, and she reveals the name of her murderer.
105	* OurVampiresAreDifferent: "Unsterblich" is about immortal, [[HorrorHunger ever-hungry]] creature. Once, someone gave him his blood; now, he is about to change another human being into a vampire.
106	* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: In "Wolfstraum", the narrator experiences what wolves dream of.
107	* ProtestSong: "Falscher Heiland", "Vater".
108	* ReligionRantSong: "Wo Rosen Blüh'n" has elements of type one. It is a GriefSong in which the narrator asks what kind of God could take away his love so early and leave him broken.
109	* SelfHarm: "Narben" is about cutting yourself and feeling elated and comforted by the sight of your own blood.
110	* SequelSong: "Das Rätsel II".
111	* StageNames: Four of them in this band.
112	* VillainSong:
113	** "[[DealWithTheDevil Mephisto]]"
114	** "Unsterblich": a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]] talks about his HorrorHunger and a [[TheVirus "gift"]] he has for the subject of the song, and does an EvilLaugh in the end.
115	** "Sieben" is the ObsessionSong of a serial kidnapper.
116	** "Puppenspieler": ManipulativeBastard brags about people being his puppets.
117	** "Voodoo" is sung from the perspective of some HollywoodVoodoo practitioner gleefully inflicting torture on his victim.
118	** "Haus aus Schmerz" is written from the perspective of a SerialKiller.
119	* WeAllDieSomeday:
120	** "Nichts Ist Für Immer" (Nothing is forever) is based on this trope: the fear and the wounds aren't made to last forever.
121	** "Ad mortem festinamus" says that we are hastening to death and should [[MoralityBallad refrain from sinning]].
122	* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The titular "Königin der Käfer" endured a lot of suffering and turned into an InsectQueen to haunt her tormentors.

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