Decline of the 'concept album' as an art form

In many sub-genres of metal, actually.

Aye, that was one of the metal albums I’d’ve mentioned too. With the execrable exception of Night City it’s a fantastic album; I reviewed it on my blog back then.

Mastodon’s Leviathon, Blood Mountain and Crack The Skye are all concept albums.

Coheed & Cambria pretty much only exists to tell about The Amory Wars.

Opeth’s Still Life is excellent but for me their best is the Damnation half of their double album concept with Deliverance. Love that ddamn album.

Texas headbangers Upon A Burning Body released a couple of awesome concept albums a few years back, one based on Pacino movies and another based on Robert Rodriguez’s movies.

There’s loads of concept albums still being made.