The second studio album by American death metal band The Faceless, was inspired by a book by an author of what nationality?
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Planetary Duality Planetary Duality is the second full-length album by American death metal band The Faceless. It was released on November 11, 2008 through Sumerian Records (in Europe through Lifeforce Records). It is a concept album with the lyrics following a science fiction theme of an extraterrestrial race controlling the world and is inspired by the book "The Children of the Matrix" by David Icke. The album debuted at number 119 on the "Billboard" 200 selling around 5,600 copies in its first week of being on shelves.
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David Icke David Vaughan Icke ( ; born 29 April 1952) is an English writer and public speaker.
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Eyes of the Insane "Eyes of the Insane" is a 2006 single by the American thrash metal band Slayer, taken from their 2006 album "Christ Illusion". The lyrics explore an American soldier's mental anguish following his return home from the second Gulf War, and are based on an article entitled "Casualty of War" in "Texas Monthly" magazine. "Eyes of the Insane" was written by vocalist Tom Araya during pre-production for the album. The song was generally well received by critics, and also peaked #15 on the Danish singles charts.
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Blood Fire Death Blood Fire Death is the fourth studio album by Swedish extreme metal band Bathory. It was released on 8 October 1988, through Music for Nations sublabel, Under One Flag. The album, although mostly black metal, includes some of the first examples of Viking metal. According to the book "Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult" by Dayal Patterson, "Blood Fire Death" began a second trilogy, an era Quorthon described as the "pre-Christian Swedish Viking Era".
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Ursula K. Le Guin Ursula Kroeber Le Guin ( ; born October 21, 1929) is an American author of novels, children's books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also written poetry and essays. First published in the 1960s, her work has often depicted futuristic or imaginary alternative worlds in politics, the natural environment, gender, religion, sexuality and ethnography. In 2016, "The New York Times" described her as "America's greatest living science fiction writer", although she has said she would prefer to be known as an "American novelist".
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Incantation (band) Incantation is an American death metal band that was formed by John McEntee and Paul Ledney in 1989. They are one of the leaders in the New York City death metal scene along with fellow bands Suffocation, Mortician and Immolation, even though the band is currently located in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. To date the band has released ten full-length records, two live records, four EPs, two singles, three splits, one DVD, and three demos. Their most recent album "Profane Nexus" was released through Relapse Records in August 2017. The band have maintained a significant cult following and underground popularity since the 90s, and are considered to be highly influential on a range of later death metal bands including Dead Congregation, Grave Miasma, and Portal, who are often described as 'cavernous death metal'. Incantation's music frequently draws on anti-Christian, Satanic and occult themes, and the band is notable for mixing widely varied tempos into their music, often playing slow, down-tuned passages similar to those performed by death-doom bands like Autopsy.
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Masks of the Illuminati Masks of the Illuminati is a 1981 novel by Robert Anton Wilson, co-author of "The Illuminatus! Trilogy" and over thirty other influential books. Although not a sequel to the earlier work, it does expand information on many of the topics referred to in the trilogy.
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House of Stone: Death I House of Stone: Death I, is the first part in a series of concept albums By singer-songwriter and multi-media artist, SORNE which is based around the story of Sorne's "House of stone" saga. The album feature's Sorne's signature musical sound which involves non-conventional instrumentation and occasional, guitar and piano. The album art as well as the art within the linear notes contain visual art created by Sorne, as well as a description of the story of the album.
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The Face in the Abyss The Face in the Abyss is a fantasy novel by American writer A. Merritt. It is composed of a novelette with the same title and its sequel, "The Snake Mother". It was first published in its complete form in 1931 by Horace Liveright. The novelette "The Face in the Abyss" originally appeared in the magazine "Argosy All-Story Weekly" in the September 8, 1923 issue. "The Snake Mother" was originally serialized in seven parts in "Argosy" beginning with the October 25, 1930 issue.
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A Hidden Life A Hidden Life is a memoir by the Dutch-American author Johanna Reiss. Reiss won the Newbery Honor for her account of her experiences as a child during the Holocaust, "The Upstairs Room", which was followed by a sequel "The Journey Back" (both published by HarperCollins).
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Success Will Write Apocalypse Across the Sky Success Will Write Apocalypse Across the Sky is an American death metal band from Tampa, Florida, formed in 2006. The group was founded by guitarists Aaron Haines and Ian Sturgill, shortly after the disbandment of their previous band, Bodies in the Gears of the Apparatus. The band's name is derived from the 1989 text "Apocalypse" written by William S. Burroughs (in which "he describes art and creative expression taking a literal and physical form"), and also "inspired and supported by a healthy amount of paranoia," as guitarist Sturgill stated in an interview with About.com.
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Interview with the Vampire Interview with the Vampire is a debut gothic horror and vampire novel by American author Anne Rice, published in 1976. Based on a short story Rice wrote around 1968, the novel centers on vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac, who tells the story of his life to a reporter. Rice composed the novel shortly after the death of her young daughter Michelle, who served as an inspiration for the child-vampire character Claudia. Though initially the subject of mixed critical reception, the book was followed by a large number of widely popular sequels, collectively known as "The Vampire Chronicles". A film adaptation was released in 1994, starring Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise, and the novel has been adapted as a comic three times.
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Balazs Szabo Balazs Szabo is a Hungarian-born artist and author who has lived in the United States since 1956. He is best known as a fine artist influenced by the Viennese "fantastic realists" style. He derives his artistic inspiration from Hieronymus Bosch, Salvador Dalí and Max Ernst Arik Brauer, Ernst Fuchs among others. His portraits, large murals and surrealist works are internationally-known and can be found in private and in corporate collections throughout Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, Europe and the United States. Balazs Szabo's selected works are in the museums of Hawaii, New Jersey and North Carolina. Mr. Szabo's first published art book THE EYE OF MUSE (1985)) won the 1987 USA Print Design Excellence Award was selected out of 40,000 contestants. His historical autobiography KNOCK IN THE NIGHT published by Refugee Press (2006) has been translated into the Hungarian from the original English in 2008.
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Death (metal band) Death was an American death metal band from Orlando, Florida, founded in 1983 by guitarist and vocalist Chuck Schuldiner. Death is considered to be one of the most influential bands in heavy metal and a pioneering force in death metal. Its debut album, "Scream Bloody Gore", has been widely regarded as the first death metal record, while the band's driving force, Chuck Schuldiner, is acknowledged as the originator of extreme metal. Death had a revolving lineup, with Schuldiner being the sole consistent member. The group's style also progressed, from the raw sound on its early albums to a more sophisticated one in its later stage. The band ceased to exist after Schuldiner died of glioma and pneumonia in December 2001, but remains an enduring metal band.
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The Fog (novel) The Fog is a horror novel by English writer James Herbert, published in 1975. It is about a deadly fog that drives its victims insane when they come into contact with it. Herbert's second book, it is completely unrelated to The Fog by John Carpenter.
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When She Woke When She Woke is the second novel by American author Hillary Jordan, published in October 2011. It has been translated into French, Spanish, Turkish, German, Portuguese and Chinese. The novel is a dystopian reimagining of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter", set in a future theocratic America where rather than being imprisoned and rehabilitated, criminals are punished by being "chromed" – having their skin color genetically altered to fit their crime – and released into the general population to survive as best they can.
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Eschatology: Death and Eternal Life Eschatology: Death and Eternal Life (German: "Eschatologie, Tod und ewiges Leben" ) is a 1988 book written by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI). The book is the study of the "eschaton", the times of the end, or "last things", such as the parousia, heaven, and hell. Among the issues addressed in it is the concept of purgatory, which he argues may be existential—not temporal—in duration.
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The Anome The Anome (alternate title: "The Faceless Man") is a science fiction novel by American writer Jack Vance, first published in 1973 (copyright 1971); it is the first book in the Durdane series of novels.
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Death Penalty (album) Death Penalty is the debut studio album by British heavy metal band Witchfinder General. It was released in 1982 on Heavy Metal Records. The album received some criticism for the cover photograph, which featured topless model Joanne Latham. The photograph had been taken in the yard of St Mary the Blessed Virgin Church in Enville, Staffordshire, without the permission of the local Reverend. The album was originally released on LP and picture disc and was later reissued on CD. Pictured on the cover is Phil Cope, Zeeb Parkes, Graham Ditchfield and a member of their road crew. While Peter Hinton is credited with producing this recording, the writers Phil Cope and Zeeb Parkes always felt the credit should have gone to the engineer Robin George.
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The Death of the Gods The Death of the Gods. Julian the Apostate (Smert bogov. Yulian-Otstupnik) is a novel by Dmitry Merezhkovsky, first published (under the title "The Outcast", Otverzhenny) in 1895 by "Severny Vestnik". Exploring the theme of the 'two truths', those of Christianity and the Paganism, and developing Merezhkovsky's own religious theory of the Third Testament, it became the first in "The Christ and Antichrist" trilogy. The novel made Merezhkovsky a well-known author both in Russia and Western Europe although the initial response to it at home was lukewarm.
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Melancholy II Melancholy II, original title Melancholia II, is a 1996 novella by the Norwegian writer Jon Fosse. It is set in 1902, on the day of the Norwegian artist Lars Hertervig's death, and is told from the perspective of Hertervig's fictitious sister Oline. The book is the sequel to Fosse's 1995 novel "Melancholy", which is about Hertervig's time as a student.
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The Historian The Historian is the 2005 debut novel of American author Elizabeth Kostova. The plot blends the history and folklore of Vlad Țepeș and his fictional equivalent Count Dracula. Kostova's father told her stories about Dracula when she was a child, and later in life she was inspired to turn the experience into a novel. She worked on the book for ten years and then sold it within a few months to Little, Brown and Company, which bought it for US$2 million .