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NEAR MINT

Recorded live in the Sonic Solstice Festival at Rockefeler, Oslo. September 24, 2005.

Includes video clip of "Deamon Painter", small clip of rehearsal and slideshow of live pictures.

1. Black Treasures of Melancholy 04:17
2. Remains of an Unholy Past 08:36
3. Cursed Blaze of Rituals 06:32
4. Disciple of the Heinous Path 07:49
5. Heretic Iron Will 05:17
6. Echoes From a Morbid Night 06:05

IGNIS SULPHURIS
EVOCATIVE PRAYER TO LILITH
GARDEN OF THE PHILOSOPHERS
MONARCH OF LIE
FABLED CEREMONY
RIVERS OF INCENSE
PRINCIPIUM ATER
SHAMHAIN (UMBRAE RITUALIS)

Deluxe Digipak with CD incl. 6 bonus tracks, and bonus DVD feat. 3 live shows (in Holland, Montreal and Chicago) and a 1992 interview with Kelly Shaefer. Arguably one of the most groundbreaking and influential bands in the metal realm, ATHEIST combined a death metal attack with virtuosic level of playing. This union would create a style of forward thinking, progressive metal that would soon become the benchmark for many influential metal bands (DEATH, CYNIC, PESTILENCE, etc.). ‘Elements’ is the final chapter in the story of a band many years ahead of its time. Its complex arrangements fused disparate sounds such as delicate jazz, deep funk grooves, Latin rhythms, flamenco guitar stylings, and samba interludes with blistering metal chops to create music that confused as many as it pleased. A fitting swansong for the unique entity that ATHEIST had become, ‘Elements’ was almost equally regaled and reviled for the ambitious ideas it put into motion. In the years since the band split ‘Elements’ has been recognized as a crucial piece of ATHEIST history and a marker for the wider acceptance for heavy, dynamic, progressive metal.

High Roller Records, ltd 500, booklet, slipcase, poster, Remastered by Patrick W. Engel at TEMPLE OF DISHARMONY in December 2018.