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* BadassBaritone: The Historian’s voice in general.

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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: ''Earth Beasts Awaken'' contains a lot of this, with it's dinosaurs being essentially {{Kaiju}}. But it all seems to be deliberate, since he's also a paleoartist who knows quite a bit about prehistoric life.

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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: ''Earth Beasts Awaken'' contains a lot of this, with it's its dinosaurs being essentially {{Kaiju}}. But it It all seems to be deliberate, since he's also a paleoartist who knows quite a bit about prehistoric life.



* PrimalFear
* PteroSoarer: One of the Earth Beasts is a giant pterosaur reminiscent of Film/{{Rodan}} or [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Ridley]], complete with a ''Pteranodon''-like crest combined with teeth, saggy wings and [[KidnappingBirdOfPrey grasping talons]].

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* PrimalFear
* PteroSoarer: One of the Earth Beasts is a giant pterosaur reminiscent of Film/{{Rodan}} or [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Ridley]], complete with a ''Pteranodon''-like crest combined with teeth, saggy wings and [[KidnappingBirdOfPrey grasping talons]].
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* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: The earth beasts are stated to be dinosaurs that hibernated since the Mesozoic, and grew to preposterous sizes in their sleep.
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* StockDinosaurs: Averted. Many of the sauropods that he depicts in his paleoart are pretty obscure, even by the standards of most dinosaur junkies.
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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: ''Earth Beasts Awaken'' contains a lot of this, with it's dinosaurs being {{Slurpasaur}}-like {{Kaiju}}. But it all seems to be deliberate, since he's also a paleoartist who knows quite a bit about prehistoric life.

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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: ''Earth Beasts Awaken'' contains a lot of this, with it's dinosaurs being {{Slurpasaur}}-like essentially {{Kaiju}}. But it all seems to be deliberate, since he's also a paleoartist who knows quite a bit about prehistoric life.
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His first album, ''Earth Beasts Awaken'' (which can be downloaded for free [[http://dontmesswithdinosaurs.com/?page_id=368 here]]), was released in 2009, and since then has produced various other singles. In May of 2014 he began a project to improve several of the initial ''Earth Beasts Awaken'' tracks. They were also accompanied by music videos featuring battling {{PrehistoricMonsters}}s, beginning with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2peUEAfxjD4 "In Mountains"]],followed by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwv49YIVaus "Call to Awaken"]]. A third video, "Mowgli", to be released at an as yet unannounced time. All of his music can be found [[http://dontmesswithdinosaurs.com/?page_id=17 here]]. This was followed by his second album, ''Gather Bones'' (released in 2015 on Bandcamp [[https://historianhimself.bandcamp.com/album/gather-bones here]]), exploring American history, mysticism and death.

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His first album, ''Earth Beasts Awaken'' (which can be downloaded for free [[http://dontmesswithdinosaurs.com/?page_id=368 here]]), was released in 2009, and since then has produced various other singles. In May of 2014 he began a project to improve several of the initial ''Earth Beasts Awaken'' tracks. They were also accompanied by music videos featuring battling {{PrehistoricMonsters}}s, {{PrehistoricMonster}}s, beginning with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2peUEAfxjD4 "In Mountains"]],followed by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwv49YIVaus "Call to Awaken"]]. A third video, "Mowgli", to be released at an as yet unannounced time. All of his music can be found [[http://dontmesswithdinosaurs.com/?page_id=17 here]]. This was followed by his second album, ''Gather Bones'' (released in 2015 on Bandcamp [[https://historianhimself.bandcamp.com/album/gather-bones here]]), exploring American history, mysticism and death.

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You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.


His first album, ''Earth Beasts Awaken'' (which can be downloaded for free [[http://dontmesswithdinosaurs.com/?page_id=368 here]]), was released in 2009, and since then has produced various other singles. In May of 2014 he began a project to improve several of the initial ''Earth Beasts Awaken'' tracks. They were also accompanied by music videos featuring battling {{Slurpasaur}}s, beginning with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2peUEAfxjD4 "In Mountains"]],followed by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwv49YIVaus "Call to Awaken"]]. A third video, "Mowgli", to be released at an as yet unannounced time. All of his music can be found [[http://dontmesswithdinosaurs.com/?page_id=17 here]]. This was followed by his second album, ''Gather Bones'' (released in 2015 on Bandcamp [[https://historianhimself.bandcamp.com/album/gather-bones here]]), exploring American history, mysticism and death.

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His first album, ''Earth Beasts Awaken'' (which can be downloaded for free [[http://dontmesswithdinosaurs.com/?page_id=368 here]]), was released in 2009, and since then has produced various other singles. In May of 2014 he began a project to improve several of the initial ''Earth Beasts Awaken'' tracks. They were also accompanied by music videos featuring battling {{Slurpasaur}}s, {{PrehistoricMonsters}}s, beginning with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2peUEAfxjD4 "In Mountains"]],followed by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwv49YIVaus "Call to Awaken"]]. A third video, "Mowgli", to be released at an as yet unannounced time. All of his music can be found [[http://dontmesswithdinosaurs.com/?page_id=17 here]]. This was followed by his second album, ''Gather Bones'' (released in 2015 on Bandcamp [[https://historianhimself.bandcamp.com/album/gather-bones here]]), exploring American history, mysticism and death.



* DinosaursAreDragons: Or more accurately, Dinosaurs are Franchise/{{Godzilla}}. The vast bulk of earth beasts that are described sound like supersized slurpasaurs. The promotional art work and music video for “Call to Awaken” add to this.

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* DinosaursAreDragons: Or more accurately, Dinosaurs are Franchise/{{Godzilla}}. The vast bulk of earth beasts that are described sound like supersized slurpasaurs. The promotional art work and music video for “Call to Awaken” add to this.



* {{Slurpasaur}}: Many of the earth beasts and much of the concept art for the album, but especially the creatures showm in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwv49YIVaus "Call to Awaken"]].
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He has released one album, ''Earth Beasts Awaken'' (which can be downloaded for free [[http://dontmesswithdinosaurs.com/?page_id=368 here]]), in 2009, and since then has produced various other singles. In May of 2014 he began a project to improve several of the initial ''Earth Beasts Awaken'' tracks. They were also accompanied by music videos featuring battling {{Slurpasaur}}s, beginning with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2peUEAfxjD4 "In Mountains"]],followed by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwv49YIVaus "Call to Awaken"]]. A third video, "Mowgli", to be released at an as yet unannounced time. All of his music can be found [[http://dontmesswithdinosaurs.com/?page_id=17 here]].

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He has released one His first album, ''Earth Beasts Awaken'' (which can be downloaded for free [[http://dontmesswithdinosaurs.com/?page_id=368 here]]), was released in 2009, and since then has produced various other singles. In May of 2014 he began a project to improve several of the initial ''Earth Beasts Awaken'' tracks. They were also accompanied by music videos featuring battling {{Slurpasaur}}s, beginning with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2peUEAfxjD4 "In Mountains"]],followed by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwv49YIVaus "Call to Awaken"]]. A third video, "Mowgli", to be released at an as yet unannounced time. All of his music can be found [[http://dontmesswithdinosaurs.com/?page_id=17 here]].
here]]. This was followed by his second album, ''Gather Bones'' (released in 2015 on Bandcamp [[https://historianhimself.bandcamp.com/album/gather-bones here]]), exploring American history, mysticism and death.
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* RockOperaPlot
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* AnIcePerson: The frost giants from ''In Mountains''


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* EarthMother: An important theme throughout ''Earth Beasts Awaken'', she's even mentioned in ''Shadowsong''.
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: This is what happens over the course of ''Earth Beasts Awaken''


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* NatureSpirit: ''Thousand Ghosts''
* NobleSavage: The Historian depicts himself as one in ''Earth Beasts Awaken''.


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** ''Approaching Destroyers'' re-uses the ''Godzilla on Monster Island'' sample already used in ''Vow''.


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* TakeThat: According to Engh, the line "Fuck your empty cleverness, I’ll unfold these wings scarred with ominous images, even if it means I’m forever branded as your nemesis" from ''Call to Awaken'' is meant as a TakeThat at {{Postmodernism}}.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: According to Engh, when they filmed the fight between Shellback and Finskull for the music video ''Call to Awaken'', they decided to let the monster whose suit falls apart first lose the battle. Shellback proved to be sturdier, so he won in-universe as well.


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* StoneWall: Shellback is one, the in-universe kaiju as well as the suit used to depict it. See RealLifeWritesThePlot.
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* PteroSoarer: One of the Earth Beasts is a giant pterosaur reminiscent of Film/Rodan or [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Ridley]], complete with a ''Pteranodon''-like crest combined with teeth, saggy wings and [[KidnappingBirdOfPrey grasping talons]].

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* PteroSoarer: One of the Earth Beasts is a giant pterosaur reminiscent of Film/Rodan Film/{{Rodan}} or [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Ridley]], complete with a ''Pteranodon''-like crest combined with teeth, saggy wings and [[KidnappingBirdOfPrey grasping talons]].
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* PteroSoarer: One of the Earth Beasts is a giant pterosaur reminiscent of Film/Rodan or [[Franchise/Metroid Ridley]], complete with a ''Pteranodon''-like crest combined with teeth, saggy wings and [[KidnappingBirdOfPrey grasping talons]].

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* PteroSoarer: One of the Earth Beasts is a giant pterosaur reminiscent of Film/Rodan or [[Franchise/Metroid [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Ridley]], complete with a ''Pteranodon''-like crest combined with teeth, saggy wings and [[KidnappingBirdOfPrey grasping talons]].

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