In Time of Dragons marks the eighteenth album in Tori Amos’s long-running career, using allegory and myth to confront the present moment. Framed as a symbolic battle between democracy and tyranny, the record channels urgency, defiance, and moral reckoning through Amos’ distinctive songwriting and perspective. As Amos explains, In Time of Dragons is “a metaphorical story about the fight for Democracy over Tyranny,” reflecting what she describes as the deliberate erosion of democratic values. The album transforms that anxiety into a vivid narrative, drawing on fantasy imagery to address real-world power, corruption, and resistance. Bold, confrontational, and conceptually unified, In Time of Dragons stands as a statement work—using metaphor not as escape, but as a sharpened lens on the times we are living through.