Atlantis | 
| Artist: Atrocity
Label: Napalm
Category: Music
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 206836
Format: Enhanced, Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 233429
UPC: 693723342924
EAN: 0693723342924
ASIN: B0001WGEM0
Release Date: August 17, 2004
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| Tracks:
| • | Reich Of Phenomena | | • | Superior Race | | • | Gods Of Nations | | • | Ichor | | • | Enigma | | • | Morbid Mind | | • | Omen | | • | Cold Black Days | | • | Atlantean Empire | | • | Clash Of The Titans | | • | Apocalypse | | • | Lost Eden | | • | The Sunken Paradise | | • | Aeon | | • | Ein Volk | | • | Cold Black Days (Video) |
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Album 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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 Very good. March 5, 2005
White Line, Mirror & A Credit Card (Moscow , Russia)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
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!
 Up from the depths May 20, 2008
Justin Gaines (Atlanta, GA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
 Could (and should) have been much better May 21, 2004
phobos (Berkeley, CA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
Good, but doesn't quite add up to its intriguing ingredients. May 21, 2006
Ben Stubbs (Australia)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Atrocity have been around since the 80s, but this is the first time I've had the chance to check out what they are all about. They have a huge following in Germany and with this being their first release in 4 years, there were a lot of expectations to be met. It has been necessary for me to give this album quite a few spins before being able to come to grips with the whole thing. The band members have not allowed themselves to be closed in, and the result is an album that crosses a few genres without ever seeming incohesive.
"Atlantis" is a theme-based album which covers the mythical story of the Atlantean empire and their eventual demise. I find the concept to be very interesting, and I think Atrocity have done an excellent job of merging this chosen theme into 15 tracks that range from a heavy gothic pop to reasonably brutal death metal. They make use of classical instruments, female vocals, clean and death male vocals, double bass drumming, slow and fast riffing sections to create a truly intriguing piece of work.
Unfortunately, it's not as captivating as all these ingredients might sound. Whereas the choruses of most songs are highly memorable (I find myself humming them hours later), there are many sections of songs that are just plodding simple riffs that don't hold my attention. I find myself holding out for the chorus instead of enjoying the rest of the songs. Songs like "Gods of Nation" and "Enigma" have sections of greatness, but are let down by areas of blah. I find the most enjoyable track to be "Clash of the Titans", which also happens to be the heaviest piece on the album. Perhaps it is just a matter of taste.
Overall, "Atlantis" is a thoroughly enjoyable album that doesn't quite form the masterpiece that so many intriguing ingredients looked certain to make, without ever sinking to the depths of the ancient city it describes so passionately.
Atlantic masterpiece December 31, 2005
Juan Garcia (Toluca, Mexico)
An awesome production, in a few words: excellent.
The album is mystical, yeah, but the musical part is the best though. Lyrics are great, I never enjoyed Atrocity's lyrics like these.
You may teel this album is a little bit repetitive; I say no, this is a great musical production varying a lot, especially on guitars. Ichor is one of the best of this albums. It begins with a mystic bass tune, followed by the low-based guitars, but suddenly it rips off; drumer in here does great, his short solos are impressive.
Like Death Metal, with low based guitars, great vocals and great drums? Then this is it, even though there aren't guitar solos, the album explains itself.
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