History Music / TheFurnacesOfPalingenesia

*** 'The traitors ought to be punished but even those who are indifferent ought to be punished, you have to punish whoever is passive and dares not take sides.'

*** 'First we will kill all the subversives; then we will kill all their collaborators; then their sympathisers; then those who remained indifferent; and finally, we'll kill the undecided.'

** As noted on this page, the constant allusions to {{Doublethink}} are highly reminiscient of Literature/{{1984}}.

** This is likely a reference to this infamous quote from [[UsefulNotes/TheNationalReorganizationProcess Iberico St Jean]]:

* ExcitedShowTitle: "Ad Arma! Ad Arma!"

* LookOnMyWorksYeMightyAndDespair: Deathspell seem to think that Creator/PercyShelley was a bit of an optimist.

** Another possible one in "Absolutist Regeneration" is "we will clean out the marsh at all costs". This is, we might note, very similar to a slogan strongly associated with the forty-fifth president of the United States, "Drain the swamp". Given the number of paraphrased slogans of other demagogues found on the album, the similarity may well have been intentional. It should also be noted that the context in which Deathspell Omega uses the quote is ''significantly'' more sinister than the context in which it was used in American politics, where it was an [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement ostensibly]] anti-corruption slogan referring to "the swamp" of UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC. The preceding line in "Absolutist Regeneration", on the other hand, is "We will turn this world into a cemetery rather than not regenerate it our own way." This could perhaps be read as the band's judgement on the actual policies of said president, though the band do not address American politics directly in the album or the Bardo Methodology interview.

* KillEmAll: The album seemingly ends with humanity (and perhaps all life on the planet) extinct. It's implied that this may have actually been the goal of the Order all along.

** Another possible one in "Absolutist Regeneration" is "we will clean out the marsh at all costs". This is, we might note, very similar to a slogan strongly associated with the forty-fifth president of the United States, "Drain the swamp". Given the number of paraphrased slogans of other demagogues found on the album, the similarity may well have been intentional. It should also be noted that the context in which Deathspell Omega uses the quote is ''significantly'' more sinister than the context in which it was used in American politics, where it was an [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement ostensibly]] anti-corruption slogan referring to "the swamp" of UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC. The preceding line in "Absolutist Regeneration", on the other hand, is "We will [[KillEmAll turn this world into a cemetery]] rather than not regenerate it our own way." This could perhaps be read as the band's judgement on the actual policies of said president, though the band do not address American politics directly in the album or the Bardo Methodology interview.

** In Marx's day, opium was effectively the best painkiller available to the injured and sick, and while people were aware it could be addictive (and, more to the point, could give its users fantastic visions), they didn't really have any better options. In other words, Marx's argument is that religion is comforting, but it also fosters what his coauthor Friedrich Engels later dubbed [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_consciousness false consciousness]], wherein a subordinate class willingly embodies the ideology of the ruling class. In context, this fits precisely the role embodied by the "men of action" Deathspell Omega is discussing.