1. Mother Man : 04:34
2.Unquestionable Presence : 04:07
3.Your Life's Retribution : 03:17
4.Enthralled In Essence : 03:38
5.An Incarnation's Dream : 04:53
6.The Formative Years : 03:30
7. Brains : 03:41
8.And The Psychic Saw : 04:45
Total Playing Time : 32:25
Genre : Death Metal
Country : USA
Released Year : 1991
Atheist is known as the one of the most creative talented and underrated band in the metal history. They are from USA and in early 90's they came in the focus when they release their first Album Piece Of Time in 1989 .. Then in 1991 they released their second album unquestionable Presence .. which is definatly the most complex n technical album in death metal history. ok forget whatever i said and just listen to the album , you will understand what i am trying to say.
Mother Man : It start with blastning and slow drumming .. and as time increse the vocals as well as the whole Song structure move faster faster n faster ... awesome tight riffs with perfect bass. Melodic solo which start at 1:50 is awesome man .. i mean what the fk ..what a ultimate signature change and what a beautiful structure !! Good vocals no doubt .. and beautiful lyrics .. they are ATHEIST after all.The whole song twisted at 3:32 ..uff this jazz is killer i am telling you .. mindblowing guitaring solo man .. n beautiful ending !! this is Keieg seriously .. such a fking enjoyable song.
Unquestinable Presence : Slow starting of the song and after 32 sec they whole song move to faster and faster with time. The sig change at 1: 32 is mystic .. this is the best thing with Jazz you never know where gonna song move and at what time the theme gonna divert, kickass guitaring at 2:17 .. The whole environment is aweful .. yeah now i realise what technical DM is called. Everything seems to be choatic but in the core they are syncronised.The ending is more killer then anything else .. stupid growling and awesome riffing is awesome !!!!!!
Your Life's Retribution : Nice starting with screaming vocals and bass platform ...after one minute the song move to the melodic way .... slow and enjoyable ....the rhytm guitarist gave his nonstop 45 second solo guitaring which is really nice and melodic. Again sig change at 2: 41 and the kvlt drumming with screaming vocals made the whole environment choatic.
Enthralled In Essence : Melodic starting with thrashing and repeated riffs. But the drummer seems to be playing the lead role in this song .. he changes the patter of drumming in every 20 secong and the whole song moves the way drums are been beated.Jazz drumming and extreme drumming .. what a talented drummer man.The song get in peak at 3:00 when drummer start beating drums like a insane headbagger bang his head !! Holy necro kult.
An Incarnation's Dream : Acoustic guitaring sounds so good ..so much of preety and wonderful in first minute when 'Kelly Sheafer' started screaming .. the song jumped from one extreme to another extreme .. again the brutal dumming ..arbitrary and insane rifs kills.what the fkkk sig chage at 2:12 was like givging a shock to slepping people .. beats changes with random ways and but everytime is enjoyable. Thats is what is important .. the creativitiy and uniquness must be there.
The Formative Years : Distortede riffs and Jazz drumming what you listen when the song starts. Which in the later part converts into the blasting solo. meanway the guitaring solo please you ..Rand Burkey and Frank Emmi are very talented guitarist no doubt !! and so is Tony Choy the awesome bassist.
Brains : This song is the most agreesive song of the album and so is the terrific beats and rhytm of the song. Good drumming with good guitaring riffs.Ultimate fast and very complex through .. sweet solo at 2:06 will amazed you !! What a Drumming man .. i remeber that Steve Flynn is still drumming in some local Jazz metal group .. he is the oldest drummer in metal industry i guess 75 years only .. this song is a beautiful example of Steve Flynn talent.
And The Psychic Saw : Nice starting with kickass solo ... and then the kelly start growling in the environment , just fantastic. Remember the song 'The Exorcist' by Possessed from his first deubt album Seven Churches ..i love that kind of repeated riffs ..the same pattern rocks. At 2:07 song seems like a COF version which laters chages to insane headbangging pattern .... what should i write more .... i am short of words .. how can u mix damm jazz beats with death metal environment !! This is what i say Creativity... bow to the album n bow to atheist. Duhh cant miss the ending of this song .. blows every damm this ...
Seriously if you have missed this [ i dont expect any death metal lover will miss this band ] then you are missing a big thing. You cant say yourself a elite metalhead if you have not listen to this album. Recomended also to all Jazz lover .. see what they have done with it. Most respected band and album of metal industry. I saw in metal-archives that this album is re release with some bonus tracks. Hope to catch the new album asap.
Recomended Song : Mother Man , Brains and Enthralled In Essence.
Album Rating 10/10.
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