Agent of Oblivion
Faded as fuck
A new series I'm bringing to the board. I'm going through the alphabet and choosing one metal band per letter and posting a thread about them, kind of like Poopington's funk thread, only not.
Let's listen to some Atheist!
Atheist "The Formative Years"
This is from 1991's Unquestionable Presence, which is very great and something you should own. They were doing their shit back in the 80's, but never really put all the pieces together into something significant until this album. Progressive metal, and the good kind, not the Dream Theater kind. They never sacrifice balls for the sake of chops. They laid a little groundwork to expand on what death metal would eventually turn into, but there aren't any burp growls here, so for those who are sensitive to that sort of thing, there's enough metal snarl here without being funny or dumb about it. Everyone in the band is first-rate in terms of technical goods, and a large portion of their fanbase is people in other metal bands, I'd wager.
1993 brough us Elements; a concept album about, no shit, ancient elements like fire and earth and air and all that shit. I actually like it better than Unquestionable Presence, but I'm in the minority with that opinion. It's dicey business when metal bands want to get all concepty, but it fuckin' rocks. Here's the title track:
Atheist - Elements
Oh, and there's Piece of Time, which predated those two and is still really good and all, but no one really gives a shit about it for some reason.
Atheist-Piece Of Time
Use the rest of this thread to discover/discuss ATHEIST
Let's listen to some Atheist!
Atheist "The Formative Years"
This is from 1991's Unquestionable Presence, which is very great and something you should own. They were doing their shit back in the 80's, but never really put all the pieces together into something significant until this album. Progressive metal, and the good kind, not the Dream Theater kind. They never sacrifice balls for the sake of chops. They laid a little groundwork to expand on what death metal would eventually turn into, but there aren't any burp growls here, so for those who are sensitive to that sort of thing, there's enough metal snarl here without being funny or dumb about it. Everyone in the band is first-rate in terms of technical goods, and a large portion of their fanbase is people in other metal bands, I'd wager.
1993 brough us Elements; a concept album about, no shit, ancient elements like fire and earth and air and all that shit. I actually like it better than Unquestionable Presence, but I'm in the minority with that opinion. It's dicey business when metal bands want to get all concepty, but it fuckin' rocks. Here's the title track:
Atheist - Elements
Oh, and there's Piece of Time, which predated those two and is still really good and all, but no one really gives a shit about it for some reason.
Atheist-Piece Of Time
Use the rest of this thread to discover/discuss ATHEIST
