Drugs Are Bad: "Give Me the Night" is about a man whose life has been ruined by his drug addiction.
Come to think of it, their lyrics are either this, or In-Universe Moment of Awesome. Darkest Hour: Used often in the lyrics.ZP used to do this all the time, but Marc usually sings the lyrics as they were written. It happens quite often during their live performances, where they will change their lyrics on the fly, such as changing "Now here we stand with their blood on our hands" to "Now here we stand with our cocks in our hands".Cluster F-Bomb: The new live album Twilight Dementia has a surprising amount of cursing in between the songs it's especially surprising since their actual songs never use any language harsher than "damn", "hell", and "whore".Cluster Bleep-Bomb: During one of the " Making of The Power Within " videos, Frederic delivers a profanity-laden rant in French after repeatedly failing at one particular section of a song.Several other songs fall into this with their music videos, namely Operation Ground and Pound, Heroes of Our Time, The Last Journey Home, Midnight Madness, and Highway to Oblivion.Changed for the Video: The video version of "Through the Fire and Flames" is only 5 minutes long while the original version is 7 minutes long.Car Song: Highway to Oblivion has shades of this.Call-Back: "The Flame of Youth" has "Through the fire, through the flames" in the lyrics, referring to their most famous song, "Through the Fire and Flames".Herman Li once said this is the reason that their concert setlists are arranged with the ballad in the middle.Breather Episode: Each of the group's albums features one Power Ballad as a counterpart to the rest of their music: "Starfire", "Dawn Over a New World", "Trail of Broken Hearts", and "A Flame for Freedom".
Pretty impressive for a band known best for singing about swords, fire, and dragons! Different from most breakup songs, in that instead of being about the singer missing their lover, reminiscing on how great they were together, or being hateful and wishing they had never met them, the ultimate theme behind "Seasons" seems to be more about picking oneself up and moving on with life.It's about recovering in the aftermath of a particularly rough breakup. Break-Up Song: "Seasons", written by Frederic.Auto-Tune: A line or two in various songs, used for effect.Also, ZP usually had the crowd sing along to part of "Through the Fire and Flames". Audience Participation Song: The chorus of "Heart of a Dragon", as quoted above, is a sing-along.Subverted, as he ended up not touring with them, with Damien Rainaud (Once Human) playing as touring bassist instead.Ascended Meme: Steve Terreberry went from being the mythical "triangle player" for the band, to filling out for the departing Fred as bassist on the North American leg of the Extreme Power Metal tour.To the point where someone compiled most of the utterences of Fire et al into one epic song!.