ATHEIST — Elements (review)

ATHEIST — Elements album cover Album · 1993 · Technical Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
2.5/5 ·
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The extreme prog metal band reaches maturity with their second album, "Elements", considered an unbelievable masterpiece, absolutely breathtaking and mind blowing. It is no doubt a great album, almost all the songs have a perfect balance between extreme metal and progressive metal, with also very noticeable funk metal influences ( A lot of bass slapping and rhythms typical of the genre). We also find many unusual elements for metal, like the spanish guitar, the few brief tracks, which are all concentrated on the second part of the album; if an album has many brief songs in the end, it usually reminds of a sort of epilogue to the first part of the album, which is a lot more dense than this second part, just like this case. It's not boring not even for one minute, and the musicians give impressive performances. However, I'm not crazy about the production of the album: This kind of production, in fact, doesn't really go on traditional standards with prog metal , which is very refined sounding usually. I recommend this album to whoever loves metal, but not prog.
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