The Emptiness

The Emptiness is a concept album by American Post-hardcore/Screamo act Alesana. It concerns an artist who wakes up to find he's murdered his lover.


 * Album Title Drop: In Curse of the Virgin Canvas and Hymn For the Shameless the line "The Emptiness will haunt you"
 * Anti-Hero: The artist lands around 4 on the scale.
 * Ax Crazy: The artist goes this way in The Murderer
 * Complete Monster: The Thespian.
 * Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Aside from Annabel, The only other three named characters are "The Artist", "The Thespian" and "The Lover"
 * Insanity Ploy: From the Thespian to the Artist.
 * Karma Houdini: The Thespian kills the Artist wife, tricks him into thinking he did it, and triggers a murderous rampage, and ends up winning the fight with the Artist
 * Mad Artist: The Artist. Complete nutter butter. See Sanity Slippage on this page.
 * Sanity Slippage: The whole thing is kinda a Sanity Slippage Album
 * My God, What Have I Done?: The Artist when he first lays eyes on his dead Annabel.
 * Mercy Kill:
 * Nightmare Fuel: There's nothing not terrifying about the video for The Thespian, and the chocolate man only makes it worse.
 * What Have I Become??: "Lord forgive me.../...I'm a monster!" Subverted
 * Enemy Within: Subverted