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I just noticed most of the greatest post-metal/stoner-metal/drone metal albums are about new worlds and societal changes, but they have this wonderful imagery to complement these sorts of themes… Some of the ones I can think of like Earth 2: Low Frequency Edition, is crushingly hard to get through on a first listen without knowing what is going on in musical terms, and even then, it doesn’t help that much but to just power through it, but one is rewarded with a very sublime feeling upon reaching the climax of the album at the end of the third song. It’s themes are Biblical and depict the end times and then descriptions of heaven… Boris’s Flood does a similar thing, but the climax being much more rock-leaning, as opposed to drone leaning, with a wonderful amount of delayed guitar on the fourth part that creates the sublime feeling. Sunn O))) in their later career created Monoliths And Dimensions which commented clearly on Earth 2 with direct references to it on the third side. It’s a very dark song, in tone and in themes, talking about, yet again, the destruction of the world and a new age, a new beginning. Other bands like ISIS and Neurosis are more politically leaning, while some other bands yet just create completely new worlds with their music, like Sleep… yet there remains a common theme that there is a difference to the world they portray, a surreal aspect or component, often there is great change happening…