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Albums like Blackthorn Asylum 2009
Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About Blackthorn Asylum
Albums closest to Blackthorn Asylum
- Before the Dawn Heals Us 2005Also serious
The same feel, in other forms
Games
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor 2014Also grave, richly built and bleak
Alice: Madness Returns 2011Also bleak, richly built and plot-driven
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – Deluxe Edition 2025Also grave, bleak and plot-driven
Films
Metal Gear Solid 3: Existence 2005Also grave, resolved and plot-driven
The Northman 2022Also grave, bleak and plot-driven
Books
The Drawing of the Three 1987Also grave
The Queen of the Damned 1988Also grave and bleak
Wolves of the Calla 1997Also grave, richly built and plot-driven
Series
Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord 2026Also grave
Castlevania 2017Also grave and bleak
Katanagatari 2010Also grave
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