History Music / TheCruxshadows

%%* Myth/EgyptianMythology: The songs "Jackal-Head" and "Aten-Ra": also features in some of The Cruxshadows' earlier-career visual presentation.

** The debut album ''Night Crawls In'' is a very stereotypical "gothic" musical jaunt full of gloomy, dissonant violin riffs and despondent lyrics, and noticeably lacks many of the later albums' more hopeful energy or inspirational themes.

%%* Myth/EgyptianMythology: The song "Jackal-Head": also features in some of The Cruxshadows' earlier-career visual presentation.

** The debut album ''Night Crawls In'' is a very stereotypical "gothic" musical jaunt that lacks many of the later albums' more hopeful energy or inspirational themes.
** While Egyptian mythology and the Egyptian pantheon of deities play a fairly big role in the lyrics and song titles on ''Telemetry of a Fallen Angel'' and ''Mystery of the Whisper'', Egyptian motifs are entirely dropped from ''Wishfire'' onwards.

* FallenAngel: "The Seraphs".

The Cruxshadows are a DarkWave band from Jacksonville, Florida. While a {{Goth}} band, their lyrics sound more like [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism very peppy motivational speeches]] than the StrawNihilist attitude that the goth scene's detractors tend to associate with the movement. In keeping with these themes, The Cruxshadows also keep up an aesthetic that is a combination of UsefulNotes/CyberGoth and PerkyGoth. Their music revolves around fantastical and mythological themes, and their music videos often use elements of ScienceFiction. While not explicitly religious, The Cruxshadows' music explores the concepts of divinity and spirituality. Battle metaphors (often drawn from the Greek and Roman classics) are used frequently as well.

The Cruxshadows are a DarkWave band from Jacksonville, Florida. While a {{Goth}} band, their lyrics sound more like [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism very peppy motivational speeches]], than the StrawNihilist attitude that the goth scene's detractors tend to associate with the movement. In keeping with these themes, The Cruxshadows also keep up an aesthetic that is a combination of UsefulNotes/CyberGoth and PerkyGoth. Their music revolves around fantastical and mythological themes, and their music videos often use elements of ScienceFiction. While not explicitly religious, The Cruxshadows' music explores the concepts of divinity and spirituality. Battle metaphors (often drawn from the Greek and Roman classics) are used frequently as well.

The lead singer Rogue is a trained artist and a huge fan of classical [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek]] and [[Myth/EgyptianMythology Egyptian]] mythology, which are mentioned frequently in The Cruxshadows' work. He is the only constant member of the band, as the other members tend to be PutOnABus, or suffer from ChuckCunninghamSyndrome. Rogue is mostly known for his spider like gothic hairstyle and singing in what sounds suspiciously like a [[UsefulNotes/{{Britain}} British]] accent.

* FeatherMotif: It is on some of the band's merchandise, which makes sense, since angels feature in a few of their songs, and variants of WingedHumanoid are a common sight on their album covers and promotional materials.

* RockMeAmadeus: "Strange Skies" quotes Creator/RichardWagner's ''Ride of the Valkyries.'' Ironically, their track "Valkyrie" from the same album is not an example of this trope.

* EgyptianMythology: The song "Jackal-Head": also features in some of The Cruxshadows' earlier-career visual presentation.

* YinYangClash: "Wake the White Queen" off of the ''[[Creator/NeilGaiman Where's Neil When You Need Him?]]'' album is a direct adaptation of ''{{Mirrormask}}'', a Neil Gaiman story based around this theme.

* TheHomewardJourney: "Return (Coming Home)", inspired by ''TheOdyssey''.

* YinYangClash: "Wake the White Queen" off of the ''[[NeilGaiman Where's Neil When You Need Him?]]'' album is a direct adaptation of ''{{Mirrormask}}'', a Neil Gaiman story based around this theme.

* NorseMythology: "Valkyrie".

* AllMythsAreTrue: One thing consistently stated by Rogue in interviews is that mythical figures and spiritual concepts from various cultural sources around the world and across history are used in The Cruxshadows' lyrics to emphasize the universal significance of the themes they allude to. As such, EgyptianMythology, GreekMythology, NorseMythology, allusions to the eastern concept of {{karma}}, and some very obvious AmbiguouslyChristian motifs all feature comfortably alongside one another in The Cruxshadows' albums - not to mention the consciously designed YinYangBomb-themed logo.

The Cruxshadows are a DarkWave band from Jacksonville, Florida. While a {{Goth}} band, their lyrics sound more like [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism very peppy motivational speeches]], than the StrawNihilist attitude that the goth scene's detractors tend to associate with the movement. In keeping with these themes, The Cruxshadows also keep up an aesthetic that is a combination of UsefulNotes/CyberGoth and PerkyGoth. Their music revolves around fantastical themes, and their music videos often use elements of ScienceFiction. While not explicitly religious, The Cruxshadows' music explores the concepts of divinity and spirituality. Battle metaphors (often drawn from the Greek and Roman classics) are used frequently as well.

* AllMythsAreTrue: One thing consistently stated by Rogue in interviews is that mythical figures and spiritual concepts from various cultural sources around the world and across history are used in The Cruxshadows' lyrics to emphasize the universal significance of the themes they allude to. As such, EgyptianMythology, GreekMythology, NorseMythology, allusions to the eastern concept of {{karma}}, and some very obvious AmbiguouslyChristian motifs all feature comfortably alongside one another in The Cruxshadows' albums - not to mention their consciously YinYangBomb-themed logo. .

* AllMythsAreTrue: One thing consistently stated by Rogue in interviews is that mythical figures and spiritual concepts from various cultural sources around the world and across history are used in The Cruxshadows' lyrics to emphasize the universal significance of the themes they allude to. As such, EgyptianMythology, GreekMythology, NorseMythology, allusions to the eastern concept of {{karma}}, and some very obvious AmbiguouslyChristian motifs all feature comfortably alongside one another in The Cruxshadows' albums.