"You asked for it, the first new Atheist material in 15 years has...

...risen to the surface and it was truly amazing, much better than we could have expected! We ended up with a bit over 3 minutes of truly Atheist, brutal , fast as hell, technical metal madness!!!!

My trip to atlanta began in true atheist "cursed" style. I enter Avatar rehearsal studios and with guitar and backpack in hand , I proceed to bust my fucking ass...like really bust ass and fucked up my knee, shit i have not fallen like that in years hahaha So i hobbled to the practice room, and plugged in my guitar.. knee bleeding and all, and of course...my guitar does not work!!! Most of you know I am left handed so... I could not play anyone elses guitar SO..... friday was a wash, i did however get to watch Gnostic rehearse and that was incredible, you all are in for a treat when that record comes out. Fortunately for me the gnostic boys enlisted one of there buddies "Rick" to perform some guitar surgery, and i am very grateful to him for that cause we would not had been able to write anything had he not fixed that fucker up for the next day so everyone say...RIGHT ON RICKY BOY!!!

Sat , i get my guitar back and it's perfect and from about the 6th minute of jamming(after smoking out) the new Atheist riffs started surfacing off my brain and flynn's brain, and just like old times we were rolling, smiling ear to ear all the while. i have not written with steve flynn since 1991...so we did not know how it would be, but people it was fucking magical, and inspiring, me and flynn used to always do most all of the arrangements for the Atheist music, and so once we started spitting riffs, we started sewing together what will be the first new Atheist material in many moons. We are thrilled to death(pun intended) to say that I will indeed be eating my words about not doing new material, but i want old fans to know how serious we are about this, we are not making a record again for any reasons but the right ones, sure we all need to take care of our families, but our intensions are to rip a brand new hole in the ass of technical metal, and raise the bar of expectations on the fusion of death metal, and progressive musical mind blowing. We hope that people will understand that this is truly for all the right reasons. i do expect old school metal people to be skeptical, and my words to you are DON'T WORRY! WE AINT ABOUT TO FUCK THIS UP!

Steve Flynn is one of the most musically articulate, motherfucking monster drummers alive on this planet...if his performance level on Unquestionable Presence was a 9 or a 10 then he is now gonna be on 20, he is faster, smarter and more creative than i have ever seen him be, and I have known him for over 25 years. i just stand in awe of his ability to manipulate rhythms, it's such a signature style that he makes it very easy for me to drop brutal riffs and NEVER lose sight on the heaviness that seperates us from that sort of " epic , finesse orientated technical metal you hear from a lot of todays tech bands. We want to confuse you, then punch you in the back of the head at the same time before your brain has time to do anything about it!! What do i need to say about the skills of Tony Choy, he was masterful at piecing the ELEMENTS bass and drum sections together so he will no doubt be laying down some dizzying shit fo sho!

We know more than any writers, or others, who think they know whats best for us, and we hope everyone will not choose to be negative about all of this, life is to short to worry about shit like that.... ask our good friend the late great Roger Patterson about borrowed time!! We will not sleep till we have created the Theory of Technical Evolution! Me and Flynn discussed this sort of "Einstien" scenario, whereas Einstien was never the brightest or smartest amongst his peers, but he was extremely creative and clever, and i think that combining the technical knowledge of this metal we play, with cleverness and creativity will trump the equation's of the many bands of today who may have more complicated scales and within their tunes, and maybe are more technical than Atheist, but lack the ability to put it together in a brutal and creative manner , so that people can actually still count on us not losing sight of the latter half of the definition as it's written of our sound DEATH METAL!

With that said we ALSO intend on celebrating the 20th anniversary of Piece of Time release with a bunch of shows in 2009 in Europe and the U.S., A live dvd and now a brand new set of Atheist's metal puzzles for your confusing enjoyment of course. We will keep you posted on all of the details as they happen. Hold on to your brains fuckers! PROMOTERS AND LABELS CONTACT starrfactory@verizon.net to book shows or show interest in helping us take the record to the people who made us! We thank you all so much for making this happen for us, we totally could not do this without your endless urging to DO ANOTHER RECORD! No longer can we ignore the masses of young metal heads just getting into our music for the first time, we never could have imagined it would happen that way, but once it was realised after the Helfest gig in france last summer....we knew we had to consider it. Ok thats it for now, talk to you all soon Cheers
Kelly"

Hmmm bonne nouvelle ça, pour le coup j'ai même lu le copier-coller de Noise.
Ils ont plus que réussi leur retour sur scène en 2006-2007, je garde le fol espoir qu'ils puissent réussir un bon album 15 ans après.

Le groupe va enregistrer une reprise de Rush sur son prochain album :

"On the new ATHEIST record we are going to record a blazing cover of the brilliant 'YYZ' from RUSH. As you all know, we have long been fans of RUSH, and we know this cover is a bit outside the box of what most metal bands do, but then again as a band we are very outside the box of what most metal bands do. And I can confirm that it will fucking destroy, and when people hear [Steve] Flynn's [drums] version of this tune. He renders me speechless. He has always claimed Neil Peart as a major influence, and so it makes perfect sense to cover this amazing piece of music. I thought I would share that with you, along with the fact that we are working hard on compiling the riffs that will soon set the technical metal world on their asses. We will not rest till we have made the record that we and you all hope for when listening to technical metal, it will be a punishing, brutal display of all we have to give... Rest assured there will not be one stitch of vaginal metal on this motherfucker! And then in 2009 were coming for your brains fuckers! Horns to the motherfucking sky! ATHEIST 2009!"

Le live arrive tiens :




ATHEIST: ‘Live At Wacken’ Double CD Set To See Release


Technical metal pioneers ATHEIST will see the release of a special Unquestionable Presence: Live At Wacken 2xCD set this summer.

Unquestionable Presence: Live At Wacken is the complete live set from the band's 2006 reunion gig at Wacken Open Air Festival recorded in front of 60,000 fans. The band is currently streaming the set's opening track, "Unquestionable Presence", online now via their MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/kellysatheistwebsite .

The second disc in the set is a collection of essential ATHEIST tracks as hand-picked by the band. The two are packaged together complete with a 24-page booklet that contains photos and extensive liner notes from the band detailing the Wacken experience and why they chose the selected tracks. Unquestionable Presence: Live At Wacken will see its North American release on July 21st, July 27th internationally and is available Also a low-price combo package including CD + T-Shirt is available

Pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas la pochette est un mix de celle des 3 albums, ce qui facile certes, mais plutôt bien pensé !

si c'est du même niveau que le dernier gros live Death from the wacken, à savoir Bloodbath on peut s'attendre à un must have !

Moi j'dirais au contraire que ça n'est pas pensé.

Atheist c'est bien, mangez-en .

Le coup de la pochette est facile mais le résultat est pas dégueu, je l'ai d'ailleurs en Tshirt depuis 3 ans (le Wacken, justement).

Reactivated seminal technical metal pioneers ATHEIST have set "Jupiter" as the title of their long-awaited fourth album, tentatively due in November. The CD is being recorded at LedBelly studios in Atlanta, Georgia with engineer Matt Washburn and will be mixed by Jason Suecof (TRIVIUM, CHIMAIRA, DEVILDRIVER).

Regarding the direction of the new material, Shaefer wrote in a recent online posting, "[We] have taken great strides to make this the record we, as fans, would want to hear from ATHEIST. It's ferocious, intelligent, and dead-balls heavy as shit!

"When people hear this, they're going to say, 'It's ATHEIST!'"

"There are so many twists and turns in the average ATHEIST song, and we felt like it was very important to have enough killer material written so as to make it the most interesting record we have ever created. We wanted to make sure we took the next logical step in the evolution of our music. According to the critics out there, it's a tall — almost impossible — order. However, we feel like we have done it."

"Our late and great friend and foundational element of the ATHEIST sound, Roger Patterson, was always with us in spirit in the process of writing," added Shaefer. "In fact, that frantic, technical Patterson spirit has come shining through once more in the form of Jonathan Thompson, our newest guitar player. 'JT' is a young-spirited multi-talented player — he also plays bass for Flynn's band GNOSTIC. As long-time ATHEIST fans, JT and Chris Baker understand what ATHEIST is at its core and what the fans expect. Both have proven to be invaluable in bringing out that classic ATHEIST sound and have been instrumental the course of writing this long-awaited record."

"Jupiter" track listing:

01. Second To Sun
02. Fictitious Glide
03. Fraudulent Cloth
04. Live And Live Again
05. Faux King Christ
06. Tortoise The Titan
07. When The Beast
08. Third Person

Seulement 8 titres donc j'imagine qu'on aura pas droit à un album de plus 75 minutes comme beaucoup de groupes de retour après un long sommeil proposent (cf le dernier Accept par exemple). ça change...


Sinon vous trouvez pas qu'elle a une classe folle cette pochette !?

Elle me fait un drôle d'effet... mais c'est plutôt esthétique.

Je ne connais pas ATHEIST, c'est du Death à la CYNIC nan?

En gros oui ils font partis de la vague Death qui vient de Tampa en Floride.

C'est un poil plus brutal que Cynic et le chant plus criard.

Un court extrait : http://searchndestroy.net/2010/09/02/at ... 26+Destroy)

J'ai hâte qu'il sorte ce disque à la pochette séduisante! J'attends toujours aussi un suite à Formless d'Aghora...

Tony Choy (ex Pestilence - Ex Atheits) devrait monter un projet avec Santiago Dobles d'Aghora et ça s'appellera Synchronisity.

Pour la suite D'aghora la derniére info sur leur site officiel date de 2008 et ça racontaient que l'ecriture du 3eme album était en court.

De toute façon Aghora a un gros problème : le chant féminin à l'ouest, une fois la surprise instru passé le chant gâche tout je suis actuellement incapable de réécouter Immortabl Bliss en entier et c'est encore pire sur Formless malgré le changement de chanteuse.

Dobles et Choy, cela pourrait donner quelque chose de pas mal! Merci pour l'info!!!
Il est vrai que le chant très linéaire n'avantage pas les albums d'Aghora... C'est dommage s'ils en restait là... Il y a avait de belles choses...

ATHEIST est un groupe de Death Technique ou "Techno Death".
Leur deuxième album "Unquestionable Presence" est considéré pour beaucoup, comme un chef d'œuvre du genre. Groupe de Death Floridien par excellence, produit par le gourou de la scène, Scott Burns, ATHEIST est inscrit dans le registre des formations culte du Death US, tout comme DEATH et MORBID ANGEL. Leur bassiste, Tony Choy, est aussi reconnu et sollicité (chez PESTILENCE et CYNIC) que Steve Digiorgio de SADUS (de DEATH à AUTOPSY).
Il va s'en dire que leur nouvel album est attendu de pied ferme. Retrouver la "légende" de toute une époque est un grand moment. Le sera-t-il vraiment ? Toute la question est là.

MODBID ANGEL? Le peu que j'en ai écouté ne m'a pas fait du tout penser à ce genre de groupe... Un album particulier à me conseiller?

J'aime le style d'ATHEIST et je vais écouter leurs quelques albums. Et en effet, espérons que leur retour sera à la hauteur.

A propos de retour, que penses-tu de celui de CYNIC?

Je parle de la popularité du groupe, pas de leur style particulier.MORBID ANGEL et DEATH sont deux groupes phares du style, mais leur approche de la musique est différente. Idem pour ATHEIST.

Sinon pour situer, écoute "Unquestionable Presence", il déchire, tout simplement. Avec ses huit titres et ses 32 minutes de Metal moribond et technique, le voyage est stupéfiant . Un grand cru de l'année 91 et du Death en général.

Pour CYNIC, j'ai lâché l'affaire depuis "Focus" le surestimé du groupe, lui aussi surestimé. C'est mon avis, hein.
Donc le dernier, je ne l'ai pas écouté attentivement pour en dire grand chose.