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Todessehnsucht
Godless Years
Unspoken Names
Defiance
Triumph at Dawn
Introduction
Sky Turned Red
Necropolis
A Prison Called Earth
Todessehnsucht (Reprise)
Archangel
Release Date: 1992 | |
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| Summary: Unbedingt erforderlich! |
6 of 6 thought this review was well written
Atrocity’s second album Todessehnsucht, which was mistakenly changed against the bands wishes to Longing for Death when it was released in America, is not only a pinnacle of German death metal but also holds a pretty damn high place amongst the legions of death metal bands fusing death/thrash and technicality into a cohesive sound. Forming in 1988, the band quickly built a reputation for a progressive crossover style of death metal with the release of 1990s Hallucinations and also gained some noterity for working with H.R Giger on the cover art as well. It was shortly after in 1992 that Todessehnsucht was released - a more focused, tighter sound that simply never quite caught on to the momentum that American death metal bands were enjoying at this point in time (particularly a little Florida band that had just released Human a year before).
Atrocity were almost too proggy and too technical for their own good at this point in time, giving way to another few reasons as to why they had so little exposure when indeed, they should have been swimming within the emerging death metal scene. Regardless of the fact, this album is a brutal examination into how off-kilter song structures are to be done in death metal. Sandwiched between the samples, keyboard interludes, and just unusual song flows, one can unearth a myriad of brutally proggy riffs that dazzel through dizzing song structures (much in vein with Death but even better) and are definitely the heart and soul of Todessehnsucht. Through all the guitar mayhem, bass lines and a fantastic rhythm section help fuel and smooth out these acrobatic riffs with ease and a sense of prowess. What shouldn’t go unnoticed though is that this a vicious album from start to finish and what better way to exemplify this trait than with a vocalist who has a range of growls that rivals cookie monster after a night of snorting cookie crumbs. In other words, he absolutely kills his lows and rages with a great tone throughout the album.
As much as I can sit here and praise Todessehnsucht, it will never do this album justice. Just do yourself a favour if you consider yourself a death metal connoisseur and give it a listen. Absolutely essential!
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Album Rating: 4
I know the review sucks but I've been digging this hard lately.
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Sweet album. Good review too, dude.
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Good album, solid review.
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I already own the original doorknob hahahaha.
And this album is beyond good Shadow.
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dude this album is good i would read the review but
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But...
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Proggy, techyy...e.h i'll pass. Good review Karl.
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great record, great album
found this in a 2nd hand tape bin at a record store last year going for 3 bucks or something, was pretty happy about it
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Heck of a find/deal.
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yeah, roadrunner records 1992, not entirely sure what pressing that is
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Dunno. Discogs doesn't even have a cassette version listed lol. Imagine it'd be a first press if it was from '92, though.
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yeah I dunno, it's RRC 9128 from 1992, so I think it's original
the album title on the tape is in English though (Longing for Death)
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Hmm. Worth three bucks no matter what, though.
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definitely. found some other cool tapes in there at other times too, got a necrosanct album as well as bathory's blood fire death. not sure who is selling these tapes to them, but I'm not complaining =P
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Probably just people that don't use the format anymore. Certainly good for you anyway.
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Definitely checking this out, as prog n tech metal stuff is one of my things.
good review, pos.
However, this sentence reads kinda strange:
Too proggy, too technical, and too ahead of its time could also be associated with the lack of exposure Atrocity should have been swimming in within the emerging death metal scene at this point in time
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good album, not a 4.5
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riffocock
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found this in a 2nd hand tape bin at a record store last year going for 3 bucks or something, was pretty happy about it
Fuck off hahahah so jealous. Thanks for getting me into these guys and the countless other dm bands.
yeah, roadrunner records 1992, not entirely sure what pressing that is
Roadrunner Records are an American based metal label who put out some quality dm back in the day and now puts out Nickleback shit for the most part. I can't believe Opeth are signed on to them hahahaha.
Ahaha I trump you Protector's A Shedding of the Skin.
Gonna give that a listen.
Voivod, fixed and thanks for the pointer.
good album, not a 4.5
For the time period, nothing tops this.
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