The Caretaker iceberg

The Caretaker iceberg is an iceberg chart topic. On r/IcebergCharts, the highest-scoring available chart on it, "The Caretaker Iceberg", was posted by u/LimpSubstance5357 on 6 July 2021 and had about 794 upvotes when it was collected. The subreddit has 5 other charts on the same or closely related topics; see Other versions. A text version, "The Ultimate Everywhere at the end of time iceberg" by christian2008, is hosted on IcebergThreads, where it had 649 views as of 29 October 2026.

The IcebergThreads author describes it as: "This is my first iceberg on icebergthreads.com hi For the people who don't know what is Everywhere at the end of time, Everywhere at the end of time is a music album created by Leyland Kirby aka The Caretaker that simulates the progression of Alzheimer until death Feel free to explain my icebergs, and follow me on youtube"

Entries reflect the chart authors' choices and are not verified fact.

"The Caretaker Iceberg" by u/LimpSubstance5357 (6 July 2021)

Tiers

Tiers and entries from the IcebergThreads version. Notes after a dash are shortened from the author's explanations.

Layer 1 - The Sky

• EATEOT is about Alzheimer
• The Caretaker is James Leyland Kirby
• An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
• The Songs sample 1920s-1940s Ballroom Music
• It's Just a Burning Memory – The Most well-known track in the entire album
• The Last six Minutes Symbolizes Terminal Lucidity – Self-Explain
• The 6 Months Gap

Layer 2 - The Tip of Iceberg

• Heartaches and Goodnight My Beautiful are the main leitmotifs of the project
• The Love Story
• The Caretaker is Dead
• Was it Just a Dream?
• Stages 1-3 are the "Lucidity Stages" and Stages 4-6 are "Post-Awareness"
• Ivan Seal – The Creator of the paintings
• Repeated track names
• Hell Sirens

Layer 3 - The Surface Level

• Glitsholder
• Nowhere at the Millenium Of Space – Nowhere at the Millennium of Space (abbreviated as NATMOS) is the first album series by The Caretakers and is heavily inspired by Leyland Kirby's Everywhere at the end of time album series. Led by…
• Everywhere in the Beginning of Nowhere – Everywhere In The Beginning Of Nowhere (abbreviated as EITBON) is a fan project created by The Carebear in dedication to his grandmother with dementia. The album is built on the same concept of…
• Three versions of Heartaches are used in total – A1, C3 & E2
• E1 is 2 samples from the same song being played at the same time
• Leyland Kirby inspired by The Shining – from the main characters of the movie slowly getting insane
• Granada – The origin of the Hell Sirens
• Selected Memories from the Haunted Ballroom – The caretaker's debut back in 1999
• Everywhere An Empty Bliss
• The stages of EATEOT are actually stages 2-7 of Alzheimer
• E1, E4, E7, F6, F7 are all in An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
• EATEOT With Voices – Everywhere At The End Of Time With Voices (abbreviated as EATEOTWV or EATEOT With Voices) is a six-part fan project created by Dante Timberwolf inspired by Everywhere at the end of time by The…
• History Always Favors The Winners
• Stage 2 Grand Canyon Suite
• Track B3 replaced with E8
• EATEOT Schizophrenia Edition – Created by Stupid Production that simulates the progression of Schizophrenia until Hospitalization
• EATEOT But Minecraft – EATEOT But with Minecraft samples
• EATEOT Reaction Videos – one of the few many reasons this album become popular
• Stage 3 album art titled "Hag"

Layer 4 - Deep Waters

• Stage 5 album cover represents an inability to recognize anything
• Take Care It's A Desert Out There – in memory of Mark Fisher
• V/Vm and The Stranger – one of the many akas that have Leyland Kirby over than The Caretaker
• Wax cylinder samples
• Each crackle is a neuron dying – Mainly in the Post-Awareness Stages
• Guildford Cathedral Choir – Theoretically used in Stage 6 final minutes
• K1 Clarity Moment samples Was It A Dream
• A Stairway To The Stars – Another ambient music album released by the caretaker in may 2002
• Deleted Scenes Forgotten Dreams – ambient music album released by the caretaker in july 2007
• We'll all go riding on a Rainbow – Another ambient music album released by the caretaker by in july 2003
• Two human figures hidden in Stage 2 album cover – Look closely in to the cover art and you will see a man and a woman dancing
• Wilhelm Lyons Stage 7 Project – one for heaven, hell and purgatory
• All The Grand Memoris Of All The Lovely Years – All The Grand Memories Of All The Lovely Years (abbreviated as ATGMOATLY, or more simply, MOALY) is a nine-part project created by Dante Timberwolf that is inspired by The Caretaker's Everywhere at…
• All Pleasantries Must Conclude – All Pleasantries Must Conclude (abbreviated as APMC) is a 6-part series created by Mason Wyberg which explores rapid-onset Alzheimer's disease, a type of Alzheimer's that quickly degrades the…
• Turner Layton and Clarence Johnstone is the most sampled artist of EATEOT
• Hell Sirens PTSD Theories
• E7 represents a childhood memory – by his creepy sound that remainds a Jack in the Box (not the fast food) song
• Weirdcore.tv Stage 1 and 2 Music Videos

Layer 5 - The Depths

• "This selection will be a mandolin solo by Mr. James Fitzgerald" – 19 minutes and 10 seconds in K1 of Stage 5
• Resampling of Hell Sirens in Stages 5 and 6 – Theory that says that the Hell Sirens are Resampled in Stage 5 and 6, but i didn't find any info about it
• A1 Present in Stage 6 – Again another theory that says that A1 was used all the way in to Stage 6, again no info found
• pm, why bees are very silent – the name of the art cover for Everywhere an empty bliss, if you see the bottom of the art cover you will see some Bees on the ground
• We drink to forget the coming storm – Another music album released by the caretaker in 2014 to celebrate his 40th birthday
• Theoretically pure anterograde amnesia – Another ambient music album released by the careaker in 2006
• Alternate version of EAEB used at Ivan Seal art exhibition – if you watch carefully, you will find
• Leyland Kirby has stated that there are hours of unused post-awareness audio
• Everywhere at the End of Time, Again: Reincarnation – Everywhere at the End, Again: Reincarnation (abbreviated EATEA:R) is a fan-made continuation and reimagination of The Caretaker's Everywhere at the End of Time, created by Wilhelm Lyons. The main…
• Solar Sands video "Can you name one object in the photo" introducing people to EATEOT

Layer 6 - The Bottom of the Iceberg

• Stage 6 sped up reveals cleaner samples
• Al Bowlly died during World War 2 – Despite not ever being in combat. He was killed by a Luftwaffe parachute mine that detonated outside his flat at ten past three in the morning, His body appeared unmarked, although the explosion had…
• Tonight, all seems blue and dark
• EAEB is a alternate Stage 3 – the mix between intelligible and distorted tracks, make it very similar in style of stage 3
• Alternate versions of Stage 6's cover – fifer onzunge (2018) and Cloneddroepha drislaarabesleru (2018) both in the vinyl version of stage 6
• CJD – CJD is an album created by Matthew Eder (now goes by piky). The album depicts the progression of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, a type of neurodegenerative disease caused by prions. It is broken into…
• the forgotten orchestra – Another fan project created by The Carebear
• vvmtest Music Video: Remember Us
• Stage 3 album cover hides a secret message
• Centrain unknown samples created by Leyland Kirby himself
• The Meaning of "Synapse Retrogenesis"

Layer 7 - The abyss

• Second version of This Is Romance found in Stage 6
• Nursing home sample theories
• V/Vm remix of "Forever Young" almost used in Sony advertising campaign
• Zatsu Ongaku – is like absolute rage, but on some what illegal drugs
• NATMOS With Voices – Nowhere at the Millennium of Space With Voices (abbreviated as NATMOSWV) was a project that was led by Turlz, who goes by The Desolate, that aimed to generally recreate Nowhere at the Millennium of…
• Sound Of Insanity – Sound of Insanity Revisited (abbreviated as SOIR) was an album series under the group moniker The Creators. It aims to recreate Sound Of Insanity to be more faithful to the structure of Everywhere at…
• Theories created by Others that EATEOT will cause its listeners to develop Alzheimer
• Backmasking
• Stage 6 cover art theories
• Recollected memories from the museum of Garden History – The most unknown music album made by the caretaker
• V/Vm "Pig" initially thought to be audio recording of a slaughterhouse – the audio is actually from Leyland Kirby's uncle pig farm and the audio is bigs eating, also no audio link found
• The 72 samples of Theoretically pure anterograde amnesia line up with their source collection
• All Caretakers albums are part of a connected timeline

Layer 8 - Below The abyss

• The Great Storm Of Eternal – The Great Storm Of Eternal (abbreviated as TGSOE) is the 2nd album series by The Isolation, an alias of producer A L. The album series is based on the discography of The Teletaker, also an alias of…
• Everywhere but the Center of Your Mind – Everywhere But the Center of Your Mind (abbreviated as EBTCOYM) is a 7-staged (Stages 0-6), 8-hour-long album under the moniker "Exanimationes Incidamus" that represents depression and the downfall…
• Fading At The Speed Of Light – Fading At The Speed Of Light (abbreviated as FATSOL) is a 6-staged indie Everywhere at the End of Time fan album that represents Creutzfeld-Jakob disease (CJD) and the rapid cognitive decline a…
• Mantovani and his Orchestra cover of Spanish Flea is a Caretaker sample
• Everything Until Now – Everything Until Now (abbreviated as EUN) is an ongoing ambient, stage-structured project by The Traveler, heavily inspired by The Caretaker's Everywhere at the end of time, The Carebear's Everywhere…
• Melancholy – created by SVR, another fan project about Depression instead of Alzheimer, no link found, probably is lost forever
• NATMOS could have used "The Most Mysterious Song On The Internet" as its terminal lucidity
• EATEOT is a computer's simulation of Alzheimer and the degradation of memories
• EATEOT, either shortened or in its full lenght, has been broadcasted on a few obscure radio stations
• The Caretaker is 75 Years old, as indicated by the amount of Years between the oldest sample and the most recent sample in EATEOT

Other versions

Other charts from r/IcebergCharts grouped under this topic, ordered by score:

• EATEOT Iceberg by u/someone8612, 5 October 2021 (283 upvotes)
• Everywhere at the End of Time Iceberg by u/Sky-Streamer, 8 March 2021 (182 upvotes) (image no longer available)
• The Everywhere At The End Of Time Iceberg V2 by u/someone8612, 6 January 2022 (143 upvotes)
• Everywhere at the end of time iceberg chart by u/powerfullatom111, 2 December 2020 (57 upvotes)
• The Caretaker and Caretaker community iceberg by u/memoryheadundertale, 4 February 2022 (39 upvotes)

Text versions on other sites:

• All Albums of The Caretaker on IcebergThreads (686 views, 211 entries)
• The Caretaker Fanprojects on IcebergThreads (562 views, 69 entries)
• Everywhere At The End Of Time on IcebergCharts.com (archived; 30 entries)
• The Caretaker on IcebergCharts.com (archived; 23 entries)

See also

• Iceberg chart
• R/IcebergCharts
• Avant-garde music iceberg
• Artists that released only one album iceberg

Sources

• Featured Reddit chart: u/LimpSubstance5357. The Caretaker Iceberg. Reddit (r/IcebergCharts). 6 July 2021. Retrieved 29 October 2026.
• IcebergThreads version: christian2008. The Ultimate Everywhere at the end of time iceberg. IcebergThreads. 10 March 2026. Retrieved 29 October 2026.