“Martyrdom: Eight Exercises” is a concept album that examines the documentation of neurosis in form of art and the process of suicide as “artistic martyrdom”.
Each song is related to an artist who died by suicide: Adrian Borland (The Sound), Richey James Edwards (Manic Street Preachers), Ian Curtis (Joy Division), Per Yngve Ohlin (The True Mayhem), Yukio Mishima, Peter Tyrrell, Osamu Dazai, Robert E. Howard.
