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Hidden Title Tracks – Album Titles That Come From A Song`s Lyrics


Almost all album titles fall in one of two categories: The album shares the title with one of its songs (the title track) or, alternatively, the album title is independent from the songs (no title track).

However, there are examples of songs that have a central link to the album title without sharing the same name. In these cases, certain lyrics from the song were chosen as the album title.

This (alphabetical) list shows the names of these “hidden title tracks” and the central lyrics that gave the name to the corresponding album.

Please feel free to suggest more of your favorite metal/hard rock examples of these “hidden title tracks”.

[Updated 24.11.2024]

Created by: Plattner | 06.07.2023



1. 40 Watt Sun - Wider Than The Sky
STAGES: And through this apathy, wider than the sky / I'm feeling everything like nothing in my life
2. A Forest Of Stars - A Shadowplay For Yesterdays
GATHERER OF THE PURE: On a lonely wander through twisting streets of Yonder / His one good eye spying, prying, a shadowplay for yesterdays
3. Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops
THE BONES OF BABY DOLLS: The kite string pops / I'm swallowed whole by the sky / We smoke the bones of baby dolls
4. Agalloch - The Mantle
... AND THE GREAT COLD DEATH OF THE EARTH: Life is a clay urn on the mantle / And I am shattered on the floor
5. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
OUR FORTRESS IS BURNING... II – BLOODBIRDS: The god of man is a failure / And all of our shadows, all of our shadows / All of our shadows are ashes against the grain
6. Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit
TO DROWN: They escaped the weight of darkness / To forge a path into the marrow of the spirit
7. Alice Cooper - Love It To Death
LONG WAY TO GO: I guess I love it / Love it to death
8. Amaran - Pristine In Bondage
CROW ME: Pristine in bondage collector of chains / Hurrying out when it rains / To give you her place by the fire / Pristine in bondage she dances no more / Her cape is too heavy / Her feet are too sore
9. Amon Amarth - The Crusher
ANNIHILATION OF HAMMERFEST: The warlord of the Gods comes with force / To retrieve the Crusher + RELEASING SURTUR`S FIRE: The legend has it it's where the Crusher once struck... Holding firm the Crusher of giants' bones
10. Amorphis - Queen Of Time
THE GOLDEN ELK: The Queen of Time / Gives you the direction / Predicts your path / The one that you must follow
11. Anata - Under A Stone With No Inscription
SHACKLED TO GUILT: All is dead / All is over / Bury me under a stone / With no inscription
12. Asking Alexandria - Stand Up And Scream
THE FINAL EPISODE (LET'S CHANGE THE CHANNEL): Just stand up and scream / The tainted clock is counting down.
13. Astral Doors - Notes From The Shadows
DISCIPLES OF THE DRAGON LORD: Here are my notes from the shadows / Don't want to show them to you / Here are my notes from the darkness / Believe me it's true
14. Avenged Sevenfold - City Of Evil
BEAST AND THE HARLOT: There's more than meets the eye round here / Look to the waters of the deep / A city of evil
15. Ayreon - The Final Experiment
PROLOGUE: Mankind has virtually destroyed itself / Its survival depends on the final experiment + AYREON`S FATE: The outcome of the final experiment has now been placed in your hands
16. Ayreon - The Universal Migrator Part I: The Dream Sequencer
THE DREAM SEQUENCER: Good morning colonist. / You have selected the Universal Migrator program. / Please lie down in the energy tank and place the electrodes on your temples.
17. Ayreon - The Universal Migrator Part II: Flight Of The Migrator
CHAOS: I am the last human being alive. / I am inside a machine called the Dream Sequencer on the deserted Mars colony. / I have selected the program called Universal Migrator.
18. Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark
OF DOOM......: The mightiest of hordes born through faith and belief / Hail now the sign of the black mark and of doom
19. Between The Buried And Me - The Great Misdirect
OBFUSCATION: We will always be part of the great misdirect / Stepping in and stepping out / Mirrors and obfuscation
20. Black Tusk - Taste The Sin
SNAKE CHARMER: Ignorant Bliss / Taste The Sin / Weakness of Men, Sacrifice
21. Blue Öyster Cult - Agents Of Fortune
E.T.I. (EXTRA TERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE): Don't report this, agents of fortune
22. Borknagar - Fall
NORDIC ANTHEM: There comes a time when all gods must fall, / A time to answer our nation's call. / No chains can bind us, shackles can't hold, / The northern spirit cannot be sold.
23. Bring Me The Horizon - This Is What The Edge Of Your Seat Was Made For
TRAITORS NEVER PLAY HANGMAN: This is what the edge of your seat was made for / Holding on, nothing to lose
24. Bring Me The Horizon - Count Your Blessings
PRAY FOR PLAGUES: Count your blessings, 'cause I'm counting every lie
25. Bring Me The Horizon - There Is A Hell, Believe Me, I've Seen It. There Is A Heaven, Let's Keep It A Secret
CRUCIFY ME: There is a hell, believe me I've seen it / There is a heaven, let's keep it a secret / No one needs to know
26. Bring Me The Horizon - Sempiternal
SHADOW MOSES: This is sempiternal / Will we ever see the end? / This is sempiternal / Over and over, again and again
27. Bring Me The Horizon - That's The Spirit
HAPPY SONG: S-P-I-R-I-T, spirit / Let's hear it / Well that's the spirit
28. Bring Me The Horizon - Amo
MOTHER TONGUE: So don't say you love me, fala "amo" / Just let your heart speak up, and I'll know / No amount of words can ever find a way to make sense of this / So I wanna hear your mother tongue
29. Bring Me The Horizon - Post Human: Survival Horror
DEAR DIARY,: I can't stomach any more survival horror
30. Bring Me The Horizon - Post Human: Nex Gen
AMEN!: We will sanctify (Rise, my brethren) / Purify (Purge out the sin) / Rejoice in their sorrow and sing / All hail Nex Gen (All hail Nex Gen) / Can I get an amen?
31. Butcher Babies - Take It Like A Man
DEAD MAN WALKING: Where were you when I learned to take it like a man
32. Candlemass - From The 13th Sun
ELEPHANT STAR: Drifting from the prison planet / I fell into the 13th sun / Way beyond all superscience known / Surfing through space and mantra
33. Candlemass - King Of The Grey Islands
EMPEROR OF THE VOID: I am the king / The ruler of the grey islands / I am the emperor of the void
34. Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined
MURDEROUS RAMPAGE: Violence unimagined / Lasted for days / Perverted celebration / Cruelty unforeseen, driven by hate / Gruesome fascination
35. Carach Angren - Death Came Through A Phantom Ship
THE SHINING WAS A PORTENT OF GLOOM: He shall have his conquest / As death came through a phantom ship!
36. Carach Angren - Where The Corpses Sink Forever
LINGERING IN AN IMPRINT HAUNTING: Here I walk down this godless trench where the corpses sink forever into shallow marshy grounds
37. Cult Of Luna - The Beyond
FURTHER: Further on / Closing in / Falling down / Giving in... / ...To the beyond [Note: The album "Salvation" contains a song entitled "Into The Beyond")
38. Cult Of Luna - Salvation
LEAVE ME HERE: Leave me here in this void again / Now I am open left for dead / Just like salvation comes in the end
39. Cult Of Luna - Somewhere Along The Highway
AND WITH HER CAME THE BIRDS: Somewhere along the highway these tracks must end
40. Current 93 - The Light Is Leaving Us All
YOUR FUTURE CARTOON: The light is leaving us all / Whilst the birds are sweetly singing
41. Dark Tranquillity - Character
AM I 1?: I am one / Who am I? / No character / To be lost inside
42. Dark Tranquillity - Skydancer
A BOLT OF BLAZING GOLD: A bolt of blazing gold, / A sunfire in zenith hurled / Oh, wingless skydancer,/ Rejoiced upon the warmth unfurled
43. Décembre Noir - Forsaken Earth
IN THIS GREENHOUSE OF LONELINESS AND CLOUDS: In the arms of catatonia / With closed eyes / Against waves of insomnia / Distant and unreachable / My forsaken earth
44. Deep Purple - The Book Of Taliesyn
LISTEN, LEARN, READ ON: So listen, so learn, so read on / You gotta turn the page, read the book of Taliesyn
45. Def Leppard - Pyromania
ROCK OF AGES: Rock on! Rock on! / Drive me crazier, no serenade / No fire brigade, just pyromania
46. Destruction - The Least Successful Human Cannonball
GOD GIFTED: For my mum a letter I'm about to fall / I'm the least successful human cannonball
47. Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
PRUDENCE'S FALL: I enthroned darkness triumphant, with the searing trident of the inferno / Gaze towards the heavens, and you might catch a glimpse of me
48. Dimmu Borgir - Spiritual Black Dimensions
THE INSIGHT AND THE CATHARSIS: In the essence of purity lies wisdom / Join the forces, the spiritual black dimensions
49. Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli
THE CHOSEN LEGACY: The winds that blow purity / Signily my chosen legacy / I was born in opposition / A contender to creation / In sorte diaboli
50. Dimmu Borgir - Abrahadabra
ENDINGS AND CONTINUATIONS: Ages of the past / Abrahadabra! / Forever to last
51. Dio - Angry Machines
GOLDEN RULES: Angry machines, designing your destiny / Digital dreams, with no heart, no soul
52. Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream
IN DEATH`S SLEEP: From dream to dream we have always been / Like an ever flowing stream
53. Draconian - Arcane Rain Fell
A SCENERY OF LOSS: The winds of a dying dream, a tempest unveiled / Once again arcane rain fell - cold, sorrowful and so frail
54. Dream Theater - When Dream And Day Unite
ONLY A MATTER OF TIME: And though the time will come when dream and day unite / Tonight the only consolation causing him to fight / Is fearless faith in destiny
55. Dream Theater - Images And Words
WAIT FOR SLEEP: She shuts the doors and lights / And lays her body on the bed / Where images and words are running deep
56. Dream Theater - Awake
A MIND BESIDE ITSELF III. THE SILENT MAN: When there is reason / Tonight I'm Awake / When there's no answer / Arrive the Silent Man
57. Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
HOME: The city- it calls to me / Decadent scenes from my memory [Note: The line "A scene from a memory" is also included in the song "Metropolis - Part I The Miracle And The Sleeper" from the album "Images And Words".]
58. Dying Fetus - Reign Supreme
IN THE TRENCHES: In the trenches we meet again / I will reign supreme / Reign supreme!
59. Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg For Death
WHEN THE TREND ENDS: When will the trend fucking end? / We'll smash them all and make them beg for death
60. Edge Of Sanity - Nothing But Death Remains
THE DEAD: Nothing but death remains!... You die!
61. Elf - Trying To Burn The Sun
WONDERWORLD: I'm a fire / Burning higher / Trying to burn the sun / But don't you know / The rules just won't apply / Who am I
62. Emperor - Emperor
I AM THE BLACK WIZARDS: I travel through time and I return to the future. / I gather wisdom now lost. / I visit again the eternally ancient caves, / Before a mighty Emperor thereupon came.
63. Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
THE MAJESTY OF THE NIGHT SKY: My soul will leave this mortal coil of flesh and earthly life / To fly into the mist of the night, into the nightside eclipse / And experience existence on the other side.
64. Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
THE ACCLAMATION OF BONDS: Vide, ravens caw in reverence. / Anthems to the Welkin at dusk
65. Enslaved - Below The Lights
A DARKER PLACE: This dream will haunt you / From a darker place / Behind the walls / Below the lights
66. Enter Shikari - Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible
WALZING OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH (I. CRESCENDO): Our future's been denied / And there's nowhere to hide / Now that nothing is true / And everything is possible
67. Ereb Altor - Järtecken
AVGUDADYRKANS VÄG: Ett järtecken på avgudadyrkans väg / En pakt med skog och sjöars härskarinna
68. Eruption - Tenses Collide
UNPARTICLED MANNER: A dreamy gaze / Into future days / Reality strikes / When tenses collide
69. Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - Chaotic Beauty
SHATTERED SOUL: I'm nothing but a shattered soul...I cannot see... / Been ravaged by the chaotic beauty / Ruined by the unreal temptations...I cannot flee...
70. Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - A Virgin And A Whore
FALL OF MAN: Cleanse yourself of all your sins / I can feel your sinful thoughts / Your looks stain my soul / You are the virgin, you are the whore
71. Evanescence - Fallen
WHISPER: Upon my end, shall I begin / Forsaking all I've fallen for? / I rise to meet the end
72. Evanescence - The Open Door
ALL THAT I`M LIVING FOR: Although I wanted more / Lock the last open door / My ghosts are gaining on me
73. Evanescence - The Bitter Truth
WASTED ON YOU: Feels like we're frozen in time / I'm wasted on you / Just pass me the bitter truth
74. Falls Of Rauros - Vigilance Perennial
ARROW & KIN: It thus remains standing in thrall to its footing / Sworn to a vigilance perennial
75. Fields Of The Nephilim - Elizium
AT THE GATES OF SILENT MEMORY: A blind moon over to the windows / Where the night has become elizium / For the sleepless souls
76. Grave Digger - Tunes Of War
REBELLION (THE CLANS ARE MARCHING): The clan's are marching 'gainst the law / Bagpipers play the tunes of war
77. Green Lung - This Heathen Land
HUNTERS IN THE SKY: You who would lay claim to Dartmoor / You’ll never tame this heathen land [ + The term "This heathen land" is also mentioned in the spoken words in the PROLOGUE]
78. Guardians Of Time - A Beautiful Atrocity
ONLY IN A DREAM: Her reign has ended. What a beautiful atrocity / My sins forgiven / Delacrouix, rest in peace and dream
79. Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion II
LOCOMOTIVE: You can use your illusion / Let it take you where it may
80. Haken - The Mountain
FALLING BACK TO EARTH: To raise the bar / Or take the fall? / Climbing the mountain
81. Haken - Affinity
THE ARCHITECT: You turned your back on affinity / Now it's turned to toxicity
82. Haken - Vector
A CELL DIVIDES: The vector strikes / How can such a tiny wound / Cause me so much pain?
83. HammerFall - Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken
FURY OF THE WILD: Unbent - Unbowed - Unbroken / Vengeance calling me / Oh, please set me free
84. HammerFall - Infected
PATIENT ZERO: Devastation all across the nation / Infected, but I am not alone
85. Heaven Shall Burn - Iconoclast (Part I: The Final Resistance)
ENDZEIT: We are, we are, we are the fighting ones / We are, we are the, we are the final resistance
86. Homecoming - Those We Knew
SHORES: Can you take me to the shore / To bid farewell to those we knew
87. Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
THE COMING CURSE: The wicked one that comes this way / Savior to my own, devil to some / Mankind falls, something wicked comes
88. In Extremo - Sünder Ohne Zügel
LEBENSBEICHTE: Niemals fesselt mich ein Band / Riegelt mich ein Riegel / Suchte meinesgleichen / Fand nur Sünder ohne Zügel
89. In Extremo - Sterneneisen Live - Laut Sind Wir Und Nicht Die Leisen
STERNENREISEN: Wenn wir auf den Sternen reisen / Werden wir es gern beweisen / Laut sind wir und nicht die Leisen
90. Insomnium - Above The Weeping World
MORTAL SHARE: Far above the mortal sphere / Dreaming without a care / Far above the weeping world / Sleeping amidst the light of stars
91. Insomnium - Argent Moon
THE CONJURER: Still I remember / You made thе vows to return to me / On this shore by thе silent sea / Below the argent moon
92. Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind
STILL LIFE: Nightmares... / Coming all the time / Nightmares... / Will give me peace of mind
93. Jethro Tull - Stormwatch
DUN RINGILL: And the stormwatch brews / A concert of kings / as the white sea snaps / at the heels of a soft prayer
94. Katatonia - Tonight's Decision
I`M NOTHING: It's a decision for tonight / Out to look for chances / It is murder of my mind
95. Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
THE ITCH: Movement / Subdued back then / So quiet now / Subsequence / Systematic violence / The great cold distance
96. Katatonia - Dead End Kings
HYPNONE: The dead end king is here / Black wings upon his back
97. Katatonia - Sky Void Of Stars
AUTHOR: Author of scars / I see your hands upon my epitaph / Then you shift into a looking glass / A sky void of stars
98. King Diamond - Conspiracy
VICTIMIZED: Conspiracy, I'm being victimized again
99. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity
ROBOT STOP: Nonagon infinity opens the door / Wait for the answer to open the door
100. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse; Or, Dawn Of Eternal Night: An Annihilation Of Planet Earth And The Beginning Of Merciless Damnation
GILA MONSTER: I will blind you in the hadal zone / Emperor of the abyss below / Annihilation of planet earth and the beginning of merciless damnation
101. Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To
SIT AND MOURN: Every season weighed by all we went through / Brought back by a voice unknown / You won't go before you're supposed to
102. Leprous - The Congregation
DOWN: The absence of the conscience / The shallow congregation
103. Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns
THE REQUIEM: God save us every one / Will we burn inside the fires of a thousand suns? + THE CATALYST: God save us everyone / Will we burn inside the fires of a thousand suns?
104. Lordi - The Monsterican Dream
BLOOD RED SANDMAN: Scream all you want / You won't wake up when you scream / No-one leaves... the monsterican dream
105. Lordi - The Arockalypse
HARD ROCK HALLELUJAH: The walls come down like thunder / The rock's about to roll / It's the arockalypse, now bare your soul
106. Lucifer's Fall - II - Cursed & Damned
DAMNATION: Watch the demons fly / For we are cursed and damned / Lucifer rise
107. Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
OLD: Burn my eyes and try to blind me / Bury me so they won't find me
108. Machine Head - The More Things Change...
STUCK A NERVE: The more things change / The more they stay the same
109. Machine Head - Bloodstone & Diamonds
NOW WE DIE: Bloodstone & diamonds / Nothing can break the strength of these stones
110. Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
PSEUDO SILK KIMONO: The spirit of a misplaced childhood is rising to speak his mind / To this orphan of heartbreak, disillusioned and scarred + BLIND CURVE: There's a presence / A child, my child / My childhood, a misplaced childhood / Give it back to me, give it back to me
111. Marillion - Radiation
UNDER THE SUN: We roll in the radiation / And we make love / Under the sun
112. Marillion - An Hour Before It's Dark
BE HARD ON YOURSRLF: Paint a picture, sing a song, / Plant some flowers in the park / Get out and make it better / You’ve got an hour before it’s dark
113. Marilyn Manson - Holy Wood (In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death)
CRUCI-FICTION IN SPACE: I am a revelation / And I'm nailed to the Holy Wood [Note: The album does contain a song entitled "In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death". However, the title is not in its lyrics but is cited in the song "Valentine's Day".]
114. Mayhem - Esoteric Warfare
THRONE OF TIME: Psychotic master mind / Behind the false memories / The will of man is broken / Esoteric warfare
115. Megadeth - Cryptic Writings
USE THE MAN: I've seen the man use the needle, seen the needle use the man / Cryptic writing on the wall, the beginning of the end
116. Megadeth - The System Has Failed
KICK THE CHAIR: Guilty or not, the verdict's a lie / You're going to jail / The system has failed
117. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath
WELCOME PRINCESS OF HELL: Welcome princess of hell / Never will I break the oath I gave / I hail you again in Satan's name
118. Metallica - Death Magnetic
MY APOCALYPSE: Deadly vision / Prophecy reveal / Death magnetic / Pulling closer still
119. Moonspell - Wolfheart
WOLFSHADE (A WEREWOLF MASQUERADE): Strange are the ways of the wolfhearted...
120. Morton - Come Read The Words Forbidden
EAGLEMARK: Come read the words forbidden / You'll never get back home
121. Mourning Beloveth - A Murderous Circus
THE CRASHING WAVE: Its infectious this murder / Its infectious, this murderous circus
122. My Dying Bride - Songs Of Darkness, Words Of Light
THE WRECKAGE OF MY FLESH: Make this day like the night / Song of darkness and words of light
123. Myrath - Legacy
BELIEVER: Believe and carry on / If you believe then you can reach anything you want / ميراث ميراث نورك ساطع وغالي [note: نورك (Arabic letters) = Myrath (Latin letters) = Legacy (English translation)]
124. Myrath - Karma
HEROES: Karma / Chase them / You can try to hide / Every crime will have price
125. Nanowar Of Steel - Dislike To False Metal
METAL BOOMER BATTALION: Dislike To False Metal! Metallica was better in 1922 / Dislike To False Metal! Metalarchives has an user friendly UI / Dislike To False Metal! Manilla Road invented the telephone / Dislike To False Metal! Julius Caesar was better in Live at Donnington!
126. Nightwish - Oceanborn
THE DEVIL & THE DEEP DARK OCEAN: Welcome to the end of your life / Hail the Oceanborn!
127. Nightwish - Century Child
DEAD TO THE WORLD: As he died, he will return to die in me again / Weaving the cloth, giving birth to the Century Child / Who gave his life not for the world but for me
128. Nightwish - Once
DARK CHEST OF WONDERS: Open the chest once more / Dark chest of wonders / Seen through the eyes / Of the one with pure heart / Once so long ago
129. Nightwish - Dark Passion Play
THE POET AND THE PENDULUM: The morning dawned upon his altar / Remains of the dark passion play / Performed by his friends without shame / Spitting on his grave as they came
130. Nile - Amongst The Catacombs Of Nephren-Ka
BENEATH ETERNAL OCEANS OF SAND: Now I ride with the undead / Across the night-sky / And play by day / Amongst the catacombs of Nephren-Ka
131. Nine Inch Nails - Broken
HAPPINESS IN SLAVERY: Just some flesh caught in this big broken machine
132. Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
999,999: How did I slip into...
133. Nine Inch Nails - Add Violence
LESS THAN: Add a little violence / And offend and pretend and defend and demand my compliance
134. Opeth - The Last Will And Testament
§1: This is the last will and testament of father
135. Poets Of The Fall - Ultraviolet
THE SWEET ESCAPE: Together we'll make our sweet escape / In the shadows out of sight / Like ghosts in ultraviolet
136. Poets Of The Fall - Ghostlight
BEYOND THE HORIZON: Beyond the horizon / I see your love shining, oh / My ghostlight, my afterglow
137. Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream
PIANO LESSONS: And even though I got it all now / My only stupid dream / I see you and me together / And how it should have been
138. Queens Of The Stone Age - In Times New Roman...
STRAIGHT JACKET FITTING: We're all alone in Times New Roman, no allegiance / Chasing your wish over the cliff / If you insist on daydreaming / Wake up, we need you
139. Rainbow - Rising
STARGAZER: Look at his tower of stone / I see a rainbow rising / Look there, on the horizon / And I'm coming home
140. Rainbow - Stranger In Us All
BLACK MASQUERADE: The game that we play is / The black masquerade / The full moon unmasks the stranger in us all
141. Rhapsody - Power Of The Dragonflame
GARGOYLES, ANGELS OF DARKNESS: The power of the dragonflame realized what had seemed to be impossible / Dargor mortally struck the queen of the dead and called the mighty gargoyles against the legions of darkness
142. Riot - The Privilege Of Power
KILLER: Here's a couple a grand, baby light up / Whatever is mine is ours / I got three or four in a bag in the trunk / That's the privilege of power
143. Rob Zombie - Educated Horses
FOXY FOXY: Don't you wanna ride it? / Educated Horses + RIDE: Innocent and wounded, baby, / Educated Horses, baby, / Distant kings surrounding, baby, / Imitation of life, baby
144. Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It
ALMA MATER: I don't want to wait for everything / Waste away instead of vanishing / Time will die and love will bury it
145. Rush - Signals
CHEMISTRY: Signal transmitted / Message received
146. Rush - Hold Your Fire
MISSION: Hold your fire / Keep it burning bright / Hold the flame 'til the dream ignites / A spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission
147. Rush - Counterparts
ANIMATE: My counterpart - my foolish heart / A man must learn to rule his tender part
148. Rush - Snakes & Arrows
ARMOR AND SWORD: The snakes and arrows a child is heir to / Are enough to leave a thousand cuts
149. Sabaton - The War To End All Wars
SARAJEVO + VERSAILLES: It`s the war that will end all wars
150. Sabbat - History Of A Time To Come
HORNED IS THE HUNTER: For the myth is but a history of a time to come
151. Sadus - Swallowed In Black
BLACK: Every contribution, to the evolution / Its bad gets worse; deathly course / Swallowed in black
152. Scar Symmetry - Symmetric In Design
DOMINION: The Scars form a pattern / Symmetric in Design
153. Scorpions - Love At First Sting
ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE: He's licking his lips, he's ready to win / On the hunt tonight for love at first sting
154. Scorpions - Face The Heat
ALIEN NATION: When the shroud comes down on this place / To bury us all alive / We'll know the time has come, to face the heat
155. Sepultura - Chaos A.D.
REFUSE/RESIST: Chaos A.D. / Tanks on the streets / Confronting police / Bleeding the plebs
156. Sepultura - Under A Pale Grey Sky
ARISE [live]: Obliteration of mankind / Under a pale grey sky / We shall arise
157. Seven Kingdoms - Brothers Of The Night
WATCHERS ON THE WALL: We are watchers on the wall / We are the brothers of the night / We are the ravens in the snow / We are the keepers of the light
158. Shadows Fall - Threads Of Life
FOREVERMORE: The threads of life start to tear / Hang above the pit of our despair / It seems the end is growing near
159. Skyclad - The Silent Whales Of Lunar Sea
ANOTHER FINE MESS: We bought damnation duty-free. / Now we're floating with the tide / The silent whales of lunar sea
160. Skyclad - Jonah's Ark
IT WASN'T MEANT TO END THIS WAY: When death is the helmsman who steers "Jonah's Ark" / Tomorrows an iceberg that lurks in the dark.
161. Skyclad - Irrational Anthems
QUANTITY TIME: Each moment in your company was of more quantity than quality / My hopes and dreams - transparent phantoms, / This wayward son's irrational anthems
162. Slayer - Reign In Blood
RAINING BLOOD: Raining blood / From a lacerated sky / Bleeding its horror / Creating my structure / Now I shall reign in blood!
163. Slayer - God Hates Us All
DISCIPLE: God hates us all, God hates us all / You know it's true / God hates this place
164. Slayer - Christ Illusion
CULT: Through fear you're sold into the fraud / Revelation revolution / I see through your Christ illusion
165. Soundgarden - Down On The Upside
DUSTY: I think it's turning back on me / I'm down on the upside
166. Spiritbox - The Fear Of Fear
TOO CLOSE / TOO LATE: Am I allowed again / To call out what I need to hear? / To be a conduit / Conditioned by the fear of fear?
167. Steven Wilson - The Future Bites
FLOWER: Future biting / Millions spiting / Too much time boy / Too much everything
168. Tarja - My Winter Storm
I WALK ALONE: I walk alone / Every step I take / I walk alone / My winter storm / Holding me awake / It's never gone / When I walk alone
169. Tarja - Colours In The Dark
UNTIL SILENCE: I saw our memories die / Thought our dreams had lost their meaning / But dreams still in my heart / Are painting colours in the dark
170. Tarja - The Shadow Self
DEMONS IN YOU: Madness / In desperation / A burst of anger / The shadow self is taking over / Like a million geysers still asleep / Demons in you
171. Tarja - In The Raw
GOODBYE STRANGER: It is time, it is time / To leave the past behind / And face yourself alone in the raw
172. Tersivel - To The Orphic Void
MOVING ON: I was the one who saw the gate / To the Orphic void, and dared to pass
173. The Agonist - Prisoners
IDEOMOTOR: We are but prisoners of waterfalls / We stand on broken ribs / Faces to the glass, we drown
174. The Agonist - Eye Of Providence
MY WITNESS, YOUR VICTIM: Anytime / Anywhere / With five eyes watching / We bear witness / Anytime / Anywhere / With five ears listening / We will attend / The eye of providence
175. The Project Hate MCMXCIX - Armageddon March Eternal (Symphonies Of Slit Wrists)
AT THE ENTRANCE TO HELL'S UNHOLY FIRE: The pillars of heaven are crushed / We revel in filth and lust / I'm born supreme, infernal / Armageddon March Eternal + SYMPHONY OF THE DECEIVED: This is the symphony of slit wrists / This is our symphony
176. Therapy? - Infernal Love
EPILEPSY: I've got a problem / This infernal love / It burns like wire
177. Therapy? - Suicide Pact - You First
LITTLE TONGUES FIRST: Suicide pact / You first / And it's not the end yet / Don't send me flowers, 'cause I'm not dead yet
178. Therapy? - One Cure Fits All
DOPAMINE, SEROTONIN, ADRENALINE: God take me somewhere / Anywhere but here / One cure fits all / Dopamine, serotonin and adrenaline
179. Tómarúm - Ash In Realms Of Stone Icons
AWAKE INTO ETERNAL SLUMBER: Will I awake into eternal slumber? / Or will I remain / Ash in realms of stone icons
180. Torian - Dreams Under Ice
INTO THE WINTER: Cold is the winter, our dreams under ice / Dark is December, no star heals the night
181. Uriah Heep - High And Mighty
CAN'T KEEP A GOOD BAND DOWN: It'll take much more than the high and mighty / To bring down the king of the road
182. Uriah Heep - Sea Of Light
LOVE IN SILENCE: Knowing in your heart what's right / You'll walk upon the sea of light
183. Vektor - Terminal Redux
RECHARGING THE VOID: I must return to Alshain / To release our clutch / Terminal redux
184. Virgin Black - Sombre Romantic
LAMENTING KISS: To my god of darkness / My sombre romantic
185. WarCry - Inmortal
KEOPS: Y yo voy a construir en este lugar / El portal que se llevará mi alma inmortal
186. W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol
GIPSY MEETS THE BOY: I just wanna be / The crimson Idol of a million eyes + THE GREAT MISCONCEPTIONS Of ME: I don't wanna be / The crimson idol of a million eyes
187. Wolfheart - Winterborn
GHOSTS OF KARELIA: Death will fall upon these fields / No armour or shield / Shall defend from the blade of the winterborn
188. Wuthering Heights - To Travel For Evermore
THROUGH WITHIN TO BEYOND: I will shape my own path / To travel for evermore / Through within to beyond
189. Xandria - Neverworld's End
EUPHORIA: O Chimaria, predacious heart / Take our souls with you, forever repent / Neverworld's End



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06.07.2023 - 15:57
Plattner
Please feel free to suggest more of your favorite metal/hard rock examples of these “hidden title tracks”.
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06.07.2023 - 19:42
Redel
Moderator
Wow, that is some great effort you have made here. Can only imagine that it must have cost you quite a few hours to write down this list. And not sure I will be able to come up with even close to as many suggestions for take up as recently.
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06.07.2023 - 19:47
F3ynman
Nocturnal Bro
Contributor
Vektor - Terminal Redux (album title mentioned only in lyrics of "Recharging the Void": I must return to Alshain / To release our clutch / Terminal redux)
Virgin Black - Sombre Romantic (On "Lamenting Kiss": To my god of darkness / my sombre romantic)
Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops (on "Bones of Baby Dolls": The kite string pops /I'm swallowed whole by the sky)

I'll have to search for more examples. Great list idea as usual!
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06.07.2023 - 20:20
Plattner
Written by Redel on 06.07.2023 at 19:42

Wow, that is some great effort you have made here. Can only imagine that it must have cost you quite a few hours to write down this list. And not sure I will be able to come up with even close to as many suggestions for take up as recently.

Thank you very much for your kind words, Redel. I have prepared the list step by step by collecting examples that would fit to the topic in a word file (already in the correct format). Today, I just had to copy everything in the Metal Storm list.
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06.07.2023 - 20:40
Redel
Moderator
Dismember | Like An Ever Flowing Stream
Song: In Death's Sleep
Lyrics: From dream to dream we have always been
Like an ever flowing stream
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06.07.2023 - 20:52
Redel
Moderator
My Dying Bride | Songs Of Darkness, Words Of Light
Song: The Wreckage Of My Flesh
Lyrics: Make this day like the night.
Song of darkness. Words of light.
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06.07.2023 - 20:58
Plattner
Written by F3ynman on 06.07.2023 at 19:47

Vektor - Terminal Redux (album title mentioned only in lyrics of "Recharging the Void": I must return to Alshain / To release our clutch / Terminal redux)
Virgin Black - Sombre Romantic (On "Lamenting Kiss": To my god of darkness / my sombre romantic)
Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops (on "Bones of Baby Dolls": The kite string pops /I'm swallowed whole by the sky)

I'll have to search for more examples. Great list idea as usual!

Thank you very much for your comment and your examples, F3ynman2000.
I have added the albums to the list.
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06.07.2023 - 21:03
Plattner
Written by Redel on 06.07.2023 at 20:40

Dismember | Like An Ever Flowing Stream
Song: In Death's Sleep
Lyrics: From dream to dream we have always been
Like an ever flowing stream


Thank you very much, Redel. I have added the example.
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06.07.2023 - 21:03
Redel
Moderator
This one is borderline, since the album title appears in multiple songs. But I find the following appearance most prominent.

Nocturnus | The Key
Song: Destroying The Manger
Lyrics: Destroy The Manger
DIE~BY~THE~SIGN~OF~THE~KEY
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06.07.2023 - 21:07
Plattner
Written by Redel on 06.07.2023 at 20:52

My Dying Bride | Songs Of Darkness, Words Of Light
Song: The Wreckage Of My Flesh
Lyrics: Make this day like the night.
Song of darkness. Words of light.


Thank you again, Redel. I have added this interesting example.
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06.07.2023 - 21:18
Plattner
Written by Redel on 06.07.2023 at 21:03

This one is borderline, since the album title appears in multiple songs. But I find the following appearance most prominent.

Nocturnus | The Key
Song: Destroying The Manger
Lyrics: Destroy The Manger
DIE~BY~THE~SIGN~OF~THE~KEY


Thank you very much, Redel. You are right - this is an interesting situation. The album title is just one word, but it appears in several songs lyrics on the album. I will see how I add this to the list.
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06.07.2023 - 21:34
Redel
Moderator
Mercyful Fate | Don't Break The Oath
Song: Welcome Princess Of Hell
Lyrics: Welcome princess of Hell
Never will I break the oath I gave
I hail you again in Satan's name
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06.07.2023 - 21:40
Starvynth
i c deaf people
Staff
This is a real toughie. I haven't really been into song lyrics for years, so I have to stick to the classics. Fortunately, lyrics that included the album title were sometimes pretty memorable, so some of it stuck.

Bathory | Under The Sign Of The Black Mark | Of Doom...... -> "The mightiest of hordes born through faith and belief hail now the sign of the black mark and of doom"
Edge Of Sanity | Nothing But Death Remains | The Dead -> "Nothing but death remains!"
Moonspell | Wolfheart | Wolfshade (A Werewolf Masquerade) -> "Strange are the ways of the wolfhearted"
Mourning Beloveth | A Murderous Circus | The Crashing Wave -> "It's infectious, this murderous circus"
Sabbat | History Of A Time To Come | Horned Is the Hunter -> "For the myth is but a history of a time to come."
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06.07.2023 - 22:50
Plattner
Written by Starvynth on 06.07.2023 at 21:40

This is a real toughie. I haven't really been into song lyrics for years, so I have to stick to the classics. Fortunately, lyrics that included the album title were sometimes pretty memorable, so some of it stuck.

Bathory | Under The Sign Of The Black Mark | Of Doom...... -> "The mightiest of hordes born through faith and belief hail now the sign of the black mark and of doom"
Edge Of Sanity | Nothing But Death Remains | The Dead -> "Nothing but death remains!"
Moonspell | Wolfheart | Wolfshade (A Werewolf Masquerade) -> "Strange are the ways of the wolfhearted"
Mourning Beloveth | A Murderous Circus | The Crashing Wave -> "It's infectious, this murderous circus"
Sabbat | History Of A Time To Come | Horned Is the Hunter -> "For the myth is but a history of a time to come."

Thank you very much, Starvynth. I have added these classic examples.
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07.07.2023 - 09:24
M C Vice
ex-polydactyl
Can't remember which song, but 40 Watt Sun's Wider Than The Sky has the title within one of the songs.
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"I'm here to nunchuck and not wear helmets. And I'm all out of helmets."
"I'll fight you on one condition. That you lower your nipples."
" 'Tis a lie! Thy backside is whole and ungobbled, thou ungrateful whelp!"
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07.07.2023 - 09:55
Plattner
Written by M C Vice on 07.07.2023 at 09:24

Can't remember which song, but 40 Watt Sun's Wider Than The Sky has the title within one of the songs.

Thank you very much for your suggestion, M C Vice. I will have a look at the corresponding songs.
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07.07.2023 - 10:49
Zap
I've got to admit I've been racking my brain to try and find some examples of this phenomenon. Cool idea for a list.
I could only come up with one example that isn't featured or suggested yet:

A Forest Of Stars - A Shadowplay For Yesterdays
Song: Gatherer Of The Pure
Quote:
On a lonely wander through twisting streets of Yonder/
His one good eye spying, prying, a shadowplay for yesterdays

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07.07.2023 - 15:12
Plattner
Written by Redel on 06.07.2023 at 21:34

Mercyful Fate | Don't Break The Oath
Song: Welcome Princess Of Hell
Lyrics: Welcome princess of Hell
Never will I break the oath I gave
I hail you again in Satan's name


Thank you again, Redel. I have added the example.
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07.07.2023 - 15:16
Plattner
Written by Zap on 07.07.2023 at 10:49

I've got to admit I've been racking my brain to try and find some examples of this phenomenon. Cool idea for a list.
I could only come up with one example that isn't featured or suggested yet:

A Forest Of Stars - A Shadowplay For Yesterdays
Song: Gatherer Of The Pure
Quote:
On a lonely wander through twisting streets of Yonder/
His one good eye spying, prying, a shadowplay for yesterdays



Thank you very much, Zap. I have added your interesting suggestion to the list.
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07.07.2023 - 15:21
Plattner
Written by M C Vice on 07.07.2023 at 09:24

Can't remember which song, but 40 Watt Sun's Wider Than The Sky has the title within one of the songs.

Thank you again M C Vice.
I have found the song: It was STAGES.

40 Watt Sun | Wider Than The Sky | STAGES: And through this apathy, wider than the sky / I'm feeling everything like nothing in my life
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07.07.2023 - 17:25
Sadus - Swallowed In Black
Song: Black
Lyrics: Every contribution, to the evolution
Its bad gets worse; deathly course.
Swallowed in Black
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07.07.2023 - 20:49
Plattner
Written by ThrashingSpeed on 07.07.2023 at 17:25

Sadus - Swallowed In Black
Song: Black
Lyrics: Every contribution, to the evolution
Its bad gets worse; deathly course.
Swallowed in Black

Thank you very much, ThrashingSpeed. Even though there is a small overlap in the titles, the name of the album still differs enough from the song. Very nice example. Thank you again.
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08.07.2023 - 00:42
M C Vice
ex-polydactyl
Elf - Trying To Burn The Sun. Song: Wonderworld.
"I'm a fire
Burning higher
Trying to burn the sun
But don't you know
The rules just won't apply
Who am I"
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"I'm here to nunchuck and not wear helmets. And I'm all out of helmets."
"I'll fight you on one condition. That you lower your nipples."
" 'Tis a lie! Thy backside is whole and ungobbled, thou ungrateful whelp!"
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08.07.2023 - 00:45
Pavel_K
Another brilliant idea for a list! Here are a few suggestions:

Falls Of Rauros with the album Vigilance Perennial
Track: Arrow & Kiln
Quote: ‘It thus remains standing in thrall to its footing / Sworn to a vigilance perennial…’

Carach Angren with the album Death Came Through A Phantom Ship
Track: The Shining Was A Portent Of Gloom
Quote: ‘He shall have his conquest, as death came through a phantom ship!’
(which is the last phrase on the album, btw, which makes it super effective)

Carach Angren (again!) with the album Where The Corpses Sink Forever
Track: Lingering In An Imprint Haunting
Quote: ‘Here I walk down this godless trench where the corpses sink forever into shallow marshy grounds’.

Soundgarden with the album Down on the Upside
Track: Dusty
Quote: ‘I think it's turning back on me, I'm down on the upside’
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08.07.2023 - 01:02
Pavel_K
Oh, and completely forgot about my beloved Katatonia
Album: Sky Void of Stars
Track: Author
Quote: 'Then you shift into a looking glass,
A sky void of stars'
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08.07.2023 - 16:21
Plattner
Written by M C Vice on 08.07.2023 at 00:42

Elf - Trying To Burn The Sun. Song: Wonderworld.
"I'm a fire
Burning higher
Trying to burn the sun
But don't you know
The rules just won't apply
Who am I"

Thank you very much, M C Vice. I have added the album.
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08.07.2023 - 16:44
Plattner
Written by Pavel_K on 08.07.2023 at 00:45

Another brilliant idea for a list! Here are a few suggestions:

Falls Of Rauros with the album Vigilance Perennial
Track: Arrow & Kiln
Quote: ‘It thus remains standing in thrall to its footing / Sworn to a vigilance perennial…’

Carach Angren with the album Death Came Through A Phantom Ship
Track: The Shining Was A Portent Of Gloom
Quote: ‘He shall have his conquest, as death came through a phantom ship!’
(which is the last phrase on the album, btw, which makes it super effective)

Carach Angren (again!) with the album Where The Corpses Sink Forever
Track: Lingering In An Imprint Haunting
Quote: ‘Here I walk down this godless trench where the corpses sink forever into shallow marshy grounds’.

Soundgarden with the album Down on the Upside
Track: Dusty
Quote: ‘I think it's turning back on me, I'm down on the upside’

Thank you very much for these interesting examples, Pavel_K.
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08.07.2023 - 16:47
Plattner
Written by Pavel_K on 08.07.2023 at 01:02

Oh, and completely forgot about my beloved Katatonia
Album: Sky Void of Stars
Track: Author
Quote: 'Then you shift into a looking glass,
A sky void of stars'

Thank you again, Pavel_K. I have also added this one.
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11.07.2023 - 20:36
Blackcrowe
Great list …,, Congratulations
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Invisible To telescopic eye,
Infinity. The star that would not die.
Slayer vs. Slayer: 1,000 MPH or Death
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11.07.2023 - 20:42
Blackcrowe
Rush Moving Pictures from 1981
Only named the title track on Presto from 1989 the song Available Light

Trick of light
Moving picture🤘
Moments caught in flight
Make the shadows darker
Or the colors shine too bright

But this for other list
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Invisible To telescopic eye,
Infinity. The star that would not die.
Slayer vs. Slayer: 1,000 MPH or Death
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