Sound & Themes
At the time of release, Reckoning Night was the band's heaviest and most commercial album. It is composed of bleak, mid-tempo songs with a heavy emphasis on simpler riffs and melodies. Though, "The Boy Who Wanted to Be A Real Puppet" and "Wildfire" mark the introduction of the bizarre free-form songwriting of the band's next album, Unia. Lyrically, the album deals with themes of desperation, psychosis, irony and paranoia. Many songs act as a Gothic short story akin to the works of Edgar Allen Poe.
"Ain't Your Fairy Tale" is the album's wolf song.
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