Unquestionable Presence

Unquestionable Presence

Track Listings

1. Mother Man

2. Unquestionable Presence

3. Your Life's Retribution

4. Enthralled in Essence

5. Incarnation's Dream

6. Formative Years

7. Brains

8. And the Psychic Saw

Tracks:

Mother Man
Unquestionable Presence
Retribution
Enthralled in Essence
Incarnation's Dream
Formative Years
Brains
And the Psychic Saw
Enthralled in Essence [*][Demo Version]
Formative Years [*][Demo Version]
Unquestionable Presence [*][Demo Version]
Incarnation's Dream [*][Demo Version]
Retribution [*][Instrumental][Demo Version]
Brains [*][Instrumental][Demo Version]
Enthralled in Essence [*][Demo Version]
Mother Man [*][Demo Version]
And the Psychic Saw [*][Demo Version]

Customer Reviews:

The Best metal band.......2007-02-06

Atheist is the most amazing metal band. You will never forget their songs after you listen to them.

Brilliant Fusion Metal.......2006-10-30

Atheist were a band like none other. With talent shining through their music, they really made an impact on metal. However, the band's discography has been out of print for quite some time after the band disbanded. But with the help of the legendary Relapse records, we can now witness the talent and brilliance of Atheist again, with extras thrown in!

What you get on this album is the original 8 tracks, which show the band's uniqueness and how they can perfectly fit in technical metal and jazz together. This has been tagged as death metal by fans, but if it is to be compared to any death metal bands, I would say the technical ones like Death and Cynic, and not bands like Cannibal Corpse and Deicide. Still, Atheist is unique in every matter.

Don't miss out on this if you enjoy technical death metal. Even if you're not that much into brutality, you will enjoy it and witness the talent that flows through this band.

CLose minded S***heads need no apply.......2006-10-18

Yeah, back off if you are looking for the usual death metal sounds you hear. It's Jazz metal, so see some melody as well. DOn't be fooled by the genre name, there's np jazz sessions. It's catchy as F*** death metal. People actually call death metal worthless, yet they listen to Lil Jon. IF people would actually open their mind and stop thinking all music has to be on the dance floor, then they would actually listen to good music.

If you want to know what kind of music these guys are, they are basically fast technical metal, but with some passages and the music is cathcy. These guys are amazing, technical, but sounds like music. Yes, there are plenty of guitar solos, and drums. Kelly Shafer's vocals might turn you off though, but death grunts don't work with Atheist.

However, you can defitly bang your head to t his. Good luck finding it (their albums are difficult to find. Get this, and check out Elements and Piece of Time.

Classic death metal.......2006-09-02

This is an incredible album, way ahead of its time (like 10 years). Is good to see how this kind of music created by Atheist in this album have influenced a lot of bands nowdays and is a pilar in the tech metal sub genre. According to Kelly Shaeffer, during their tours around US in the early 90' many times they just recieved boo's, and get aways and all that kind of things. Right now they releases remasters and all kind of stuff.

Every song is here is great and different, and there is no point of reference for this stuff (maybe cynic, but they are not that alike). I think the best description for the music is death fusion. If you like a leading bass, fast complex drumming, great death metal riffing and crazy song structures, and you are open minded, you would like this record. It is an absolutly must for tech death fans and for late period Death fans. Highly recommended.

A staple in tech death.......2006-08-08

This CD is so great. I can't say how awesome it is because Sinvely did it already. These guys may not have as good guitarplaying as Death, but they come pretty damn close. They even it out by having a better bassist. Who would of thought: a death metal band with a bassist who is hearable all throughout? Even though I find Death to be better, these guys are number 2 in tech death. Here's hoping it keeps the 5 star average.

Average customer rating:

Unquestionably their best Album
YES,ITS WORTH IT
ATHEIST BOXSET COMING OUT 7-9-05
Progressive/Technical Metal band Atheist
Make it your mission to find this CD at all costs!!

Unquestionable Presence
Atheist
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Rock | Styles | Music

Progressive Metal | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music

Death Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
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Piece of Time

ASIN: B000008D0D
Release Date: 1991-11-12

Tracks:

Mother Man
Unquestionable Presence
Your Life's Retribution
Enthralled in Essence
Incarnation's Dream
Formative Years
Brains
And the Psychic Saw

Customer Reviews:

Unquestionably their best Album.......2005-09-07

While their first album was an interesting design in how to make extreme music more progressive, this album was like the holy grail of relevations in progressive metal.

Atheist's movement to Death Records (division of Metal Blade) turned out to be worth it because they got to have their album produced by death metal mastermind Scott Burns. Burns is a great producer and it shows on this album. Some of the other albums he produced at the time were Obituary's "The End Complete", Death's "Human" and "Individual Thought Patterns".

Atheist had an incomparable sound, and they were definitely more fusionistic than Cynic who kept a Death Metal structure as thier base and peppered the music with other forms of music. Atheist had more of the blend going for them.

Patterson wrote some good bass lines and I suppose Tony Choy performed them with a lot of slap on the bass. What other metal bands had slap bass besides Faith No More? Burkey and the guitars switch off between the heavy and the cool interludes. Flynn drumming goes from exceptable to annoyning and then to great -its schizophrenic at best. Contrary to what most people labeled this band "death-jazz", the music is more apt to being called progressive death metal with funk overtones. Flynn's drumming has little if nothing to do with anything remotely jazz based -it's still good though. (These guys probably couldn't tell you anything about Jaco Pastorius, Tony Williams, Wayne Shorter or Herbie Hancock...let alone listen to their music. Not to take anything away from Atheist's playing it is just that half my music collection is about every form of jazz and this ain't jazz.) Schaefer's vocals have a shrieking nature to them but are inoffensive and blend well with the music. The song writting and the accompaniments are good, they screw with time signatures a little bit too which is good. Most importantly it is BOTH heavy and progressive -something which Atheist's contemporary followers couldn't do.

Fear not this is still a heavy album and is much heavier than Cynic's 1993 album Focus. Unfortunately for Atheist's last album they would not repeat the formula as they did on this 1991 masterpiece. And now they remastered it and you don't have to spend $80 on getting it. (I got lucky, I bought when it came out.)

YES,ITS WORTH IT.......2005-07-06

i would like to say that this cd is probably worth the inflated collectors item price,however as another reviewer stated,Atheist's back catalog has been scheduled for re-release!
first as a box set(on vinyl),followed by individual cd releases.
this is great news & a wonderful opportunity for those that werent there the first time around..

ATHEIST BOXSET COMING OUT 7-9-05.......2005-06-30

Hey fellow ATHEIST maniacs!!!!! Just a note to let you know that if you not been able to get this album or you don't want to pay this much for it...YOU CAN NOW GET THE WHOLE BOX-SET DUE FOR RELEASE JULY 9 2005 (COURTESY OF RELAPSE RECORDS!). ALSO INCLUDED IN THE SET WILL BE (OF COURSE ALL THREE BRILLIANT MASTERPIECES) AND MANY PREVIOUSLY UNHEARD TRACKS & A LOT OF WRITINGS AND OTHER INFO FROM THE BANDMEMBERS! --- and remember.... IT'S YOUR PIECE OF TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you can contact me for info

Progressive/Technical Metal band Atheist.......2005-01-26

Wow! That is the word that came to mind when I heard this. Unquestionable Presence came out in 1991, the same year as Death-Human and Meshuggah-Contradictions Collapse. Clearly, change was in the air at this time. Bands were trying new things, and metal was becoming more complex and sophisticated. Though sometimes overlooked, Atheist was a pioneering force in this movement. Each song on this album is like a festival of great riffs, alternating between harmonized twin guitar parts and utterly delicious thrash/speed metal sections. The vocals are primitive screams that vary in intensity, sounding like a full-fledged snarl most of the time, but almost like a speaking voice in some parts. Forget all the arguments about pointless technicality with no direction, because this is technical music that really takes you somewhere. Complex arrangements, stop and start riffing, dual guitar harmonies, fluid solos, technical drumming, integral bass guitar action. The songs seem to evolve naturally, with each new riff sounding like the most logical progression from the last.

Make it your mission to find this CD at all costs!!.......2003-10-31

Unquestionable Presence is without a doubt one of the best pieces of music I've ever heard. The music is so amazing that I found myself to be mesmerized the entire way through. Each song is a heavy, complex masterpiece that will make your jaw drop every single time. No doubt Atheist's best album, and quite possibly one of the best albums ever by any band in history.
Sadly, you will have a hard time coming across this rare gem. I paid big bucks to get my greedy little hands on this CD, but it was worth 3 times as much as I paid. It's really that good. This album is long out of print, which is really a shame considering what a treasure it really is. My advice to anyone reading this is to scour record stores(not major chain stores, but small independent stores,) and check amazon, half.com, and ebay daily for someone selling this, and pay whatever price necessary. However, you will never catch me selling my copy, I promise. Good luck to you.