Description

2021 release on oxblood vinyl with gatefold cover. Limited 250 numbered copies

Before abandoning their death metal roots in the mid 1990s to go off in a a complete different direction, Atrocity was perhaps the European death metal band. Vocalist Alex Krull’s brainchild Atrocity released two albums of killer technical, well written death metal music. Their second album, Todessehnsucht, is one of the finest German death metal albums ever produced and it showed a band that had evolved from their earlier years. However the first, Hallucinations (a concept album about drug abuse), was a raw and punishing effort showing strong influences from German thrash a la Kreator as well as American death metal in the style of Atheist or Obituary. Atrocity’s first work might be their simplest and most direct but it suits the primal story well about drugs and death.

Track list:
1. Deep In Your Subconscious
2. Life Is A Long And Silent River
3. Fatal Step
4. Hallucinations
5. Defeated Intellect
6. Abyss Of Addiction
7. Hold Out (To The End)
8. Last Temptation