Atlantis [ENHANCED] [IMPORT]

Atrocity

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 17, 2004)
• Original Release Date: August 17, 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced, Import
• Label: Napalm
• ASIN: B0001WGEM0
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #62,951 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Reich Of Phenomena

2. Superior Race

3. Gods Of Nations

4. Ichor

5. Enigma

6. Morbid Mind

7. Omen

8. Cold Black Days

9. Atlantean Empire

10. Clash Of The Titans

11. Apocalypse

12. Lost Eden

13. The Sunken Paradise

14. Aeon

15. Ein Volk

16. Cold Black Days (Video)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Few German rock acts can compete with Atrocity in the arenas of versatility, self-sufficiency and constant musical reinvention. Atrocity's Atlantis is a spectacular and well-conceived conceptual saga and potent comeback after a three-and-a-half-year sabbatical. The extremely dynamic work delivers bombastic, epic songs, in which heaviness, atmosphere, and melody are brought together exposing the story of Atlantis and the Golden Age.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very good., March 5, 2005

By	White Line, Mirror & A Credit Card (Moscow , Russia) - See all my reviews

Every fan of:
1) Mystical history;
2) Low-guitar death-based metal;
3) Great melodies;
4) German band "Atrocity" -
should buy this album immediately.
Nothing more to add. Experience it by yourselves. Just:
1) Keep album lyrics in front of you while listening to the album, for it is the conceptual work. Lyrics here are the must-read ones;
2) Give it another listen after you hear it for the first time, just listen it as a whole. Don't randomize the tracks. It is necessary to see a whole picture drawn in the album.
Enjoy!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Up from the depths, May 20, 2008

By	Justin Gaines "Corporate Rocker" (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Never just your ordinary band, Germany's Atrocity has always pushed the envelope of extreme music, starting with their death metal roots and continuing through their forays into symphonic, gothic, and electronic styles.

2004's Atlantis is Atrocity's finest album to date, combining the various elements that they have experimented with on previous albums into one cohesive conceptual work about the legendary lost city. Above all things, the crushing riffs and brutal male vocals make it clear that Atlantis is a death metal album, albeit a highly melodic one. It also features symphonic arrangements, female vocals, and elements of both gothic metal and electronica. This unusual mixture works surprisingly well, and the transition from Therion-style epics like Reich of Phenomena and Omen to danceable gothic songs like Gods of Nations and Cold Black Days (which sounds like a Paradise Lost b-side) to unabashedly brutal songs like Morbid Mind is seamless. You don't even have to study the lyrics to recognize that there is an underlying theme that holds these songs together.

I highly recommend Atlantis to just about any open-minded extreme metal fan, particularly those who are into bands like Therion, Paradise Lost, Sirenia, Samael, Leaves Eyes, and Tristania. It's not a direct match for any of these bands, but shares similar elements with all of them.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Could (and should) have been much better, May 21, 2004

By	phobos (Berkeley, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Atlantis (Audio CD)

This album is sort of a mixture of the styles Atrocity has employed at different points in their career. Unfortunately, they've managed to select only the least interesting elements of their earlier work for this album. It has neither the catchiness of something like "Gemini," nor the technical brilliance of their earlier stuff. The worst songs on here sound like a selection of all the least interesting riffs from their album "Blut" (which was itself a mixed bag of brilliance and tedium). There are a few really good songs on here, though, that mix metal with nice, semi-acoustic ambient parts or classically-influenced riffs. These other influences needed to be expanded, since the standard metal parts don't really do very much, and don't fit the theme of the album very well. It's a very cool theme, the sinking of Atlantis-- and the packaging is some of the nicest I've ever seen, with the CD contained in a kind of book-- but it isn't really explored as much as it could have been. For something like this, you need atmosphere, to give the listener the feel of a time long gone. This sort of ambience appears every once in a while, mainly in the less metallic parts I've already mentioned, but it never lasts very long. Atrocity was trying, I think, to go back to their death metal roots, after a hiatus of several years, but you can tell they're hearts aren't in it anymore. The most interesing elements of this album are the non-metallic ones (this has been the same for all their most recent albums) and I think Atrocity needs to move on, and completely sever their ties to the metal scene, as bands like Ulver have done. The results would be much more satisfying.