A Portrait of Madness

by Absolon

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JimSim Impressive concept album! Brings me back to the Operation: Mindcrime days of Queensryche. This one will keep you focused on where the story is going and what the outcome will be. Very cool! Favorite track: This Is My Dream.

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This is a 13-song concept album, in the vein of Queensryche Operation Mindcrime and Judas Priest Nostradamus.

For those who like to have physical copies (CD's), they are available to preorder now by going to nolifetilmetal.com. Official release date March 24, 2023.

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	1.	Into the Darkness 00:56
	2.	This Is My Dream 06:35 video
	3.	Breathe Again 04:46
	4.	1916 04:15
	5.	The Demon Waltz 00:36
	6.	Let Me Be 03:59
	7.	We Drive You Out 01:09
	8.	The Men in Black Robes 04:30
	9.	Blinded by Lies 05:31 video
	10.	It Is Done 00:56
	11.	Into My Hell Your Cast 06:07
	12.	Forever One 03:47
	13.	Out of the Darkness 02:35

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This is a 13-song concept album, in the vein of Queensryche Operation Mindcrime and Judas Priest Nostradamus.

Randolph Bathery-A Portrait of Madness
Story Synopsis

The year is 1920, London England. Its been three years since the end of WWI when Randolph Bathery, a soldier in the English army, returned from the war a broken man. As the years passed, Randolph grew more depressed, his personality dark, foreboding and menacing. Those around him came to believe he had brought something back with him from the war and that he was, in fact, possessed by a dark entity. After a terribly botched exorcism leaves Randolph near death and utterly insane, the Catholic Church has him secretly committed to the Lancaster Mental Asylum in order to cover up their failure and incompetence. Now, not only is Randolph trapped inside his own mind, he’s trapped with the entity that still possesses him. The doctors and staff of the Lancaster Mental Asylum, thinking he is just another insane mental patient out of many, are unaware of the danger they are in until it’s too late. Accepting that the entity is now part of him, and no longer being able to handle life as a prisoner in the Lancaster Mental Asylum, Randolph Bathery wreaks havoc and chaos upon the staff at the asylum and, with the help of the entity inside him, finally escape into the night.

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released October 25, 2022

Ken Pike-vocals (USA)
Marc Vanderberg-guitar/bass (Germany)
Ryo Pike-keys/synth/piano/orchestration (USA)
Mixed/mastered by Thorsten Eligehausen for darkSIgn Records (Germany)
All music & lyrics by Ken Pike
Concept by Ken Pike
Absolon is a Sliptrick Records artist

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Absolon Beardstown, Illinois

Absolon is an exciting and dynamic heavy metal band. Although playing traditional heavy metal Absolon has managed to create a sound all their own, new yet familiar. For fans of Judas Priest, Queensryche and Crimson Glory.

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