LOOK ME DEEP IN THE EYES
YOU WILL FORGET
WHAT YOU SAW HERE TONIGHT
"Them"
is the third
studio album by
Danish
heavy metal band
released in
July 1988
through
Roadrunner Records
in Europe,
and
September 13th, 1988
through
Roadracer Records
in United States.
It is the first album
to feature
guitarist
Pete Blakk
and bassist
Hal Patino.
"Them"
is the first
of two
fictional concept albums
about King
and his
mentally ill grandmother,
the second
of these being
Conspiracy.
King falls into a
harrowing descent into
madness via
his grandmother
and the voices
in the House of Amon,
known to
the listener
only as
"Them".
Plot Summary
As the album opens,
a young King
and his mother and sister
are welcoming King's
grandmother home
from a mental asylum
("Out From the Asylum", "Welcome Home").
That night,
King investigates strange voices
and discovers his grandmother
having a tea party
seemingly alone,
though with the teacups
and kettles floating in the air.
King is invited into the room,
to sit in his grandmother's chair.
King is sent back to bed,
but only after staring into
his grandmother's eyes,
whereupon she instructed him
to forget what he saw
("The Invisible Guests").
One day,
Grandma awakens King
and tells him that she will teach him
about the house of
“Amon”,
over a cup of tea.
“Amon”
being the tea pot,
“Their” item of power
and importance that
seemed to require
a blood sacrifice.
Through the blood they commutate
or take control of
those who drink it.
Grandma cuts King's
sleeping mother's hand
and adds her blood
to the teapot.
After drinking the “tea”
the voices haunting the house
("Them")
begin to affect King
with a drug-like effect
("Tea").
King's sister Missy
tries to convince King
that they should do something
to help their mother,
who is unconscious
and weak due to
"their"
control and possible
blood loss,
but his judgment is
clouded due to his
altered state.
He refuses to call for help
and cuts the phone line
("Mother's Getting Weaker").
At tea,
Missy interrupts and
furiously expresses concern
about her mother's state,
Missy being deemed a problem
is attacked by Grandma
and in spiteful retaliation,
Missy breaks
"Amon"
the teapot
("Bye, Bye Missy").
"They",
in furious response
to the breaking of
"their"
beloved teapot
"Amon",
chop Missy
into bits with an axe
and throw the remains
into the fireplace in the kitchen.
"Their"
focus no longer on King,
he snapped out of his
"spell,"
and he stumbles outside
and pieces together
the events that transpired.
After fainting and regaining consciousness,
he decides to attack his grandmother
("A Broken Spell").
He notices that
"their" power is
weakened outside the house,
so he lures his grandmother outside
and kills her
("The Accusation Chair").
The voices of Amon
continue to haunt the boy
("Them")
as he is questioned by police
and incarcerated in an asylum
("Twilight Symphony").
Years later,
he is released and returns
home to find
his grandmother
and the voices of Amon
are still
very much alive
("Coming Home").
No comments:
Post a Comment