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Atheist - Piece Of Time



8.5 | 398 votes |
Release date: 2 January 1990
Style: Technical death metal

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01. Piece Of Time
02. Unholy War
03. Room With A View
04. On They Slay
05. Beyond
06. I Deny
07. Why Bother?
08. Life
09. No Truth
10. No Truth [demo] [2005 re-release bonus]
11. On They Slay [demo] [2005 re-release bonus]
12. Choose Your Death [demo] [2005 re-release bonus]
13. Brain Damage [demo] [2005 re-release bonus]
14. Beyond [demo] [2005 re-release bonus]
15. Hell Hath No Mercy [demo] [2005 re-release bonus]
16. On They Slay [demo] [2005 re-release bonus]
17. Brain Damage [demo] [2005 re-release bonus]
18. Undefiled Wisdom [demo] [2005 re-release bonus]

Top 20 albums of 1990: 14

Additional info
Produced by Atheist and Scott Burns.
Executive producer: Borivoj Krgin.
Engineered by Scott Burns.
Recorded and mixed at Morrisound Recording, Tampa, Florida in November-December 1988.
Mastered by Mike Fuller at Fullersound, Miami, Florida.
Front cover illustration and logo by Ed Repka.
Art direction and design by Mark Weinberg.
Back cover photograph by Tim Hubbard.

Guest review by
Horlequism
Rating:
7.2
Florida gives the technical death metal scene an interesting band in Atheist. It took Atheist four years to release a proper demo due to constant instability with member changes. After 1988's demo Beyond, Piece of Time was finally released on Active Records. The heavily diverse jazz/fusion technical death metal pioneer debut here with an intriguing marriage of two genres: jazz fusion and death/thrash metal. The combination of soothing cool musical aesthetics with tight metallic technicality and brutal death is highly innovative.

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published 06.06.2006 | Comments (10)

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Comments: 9   Visited by: 572 users
22.01.2012 - 23:59
Rating: 9
musicalkaratekid

Absolutely cracking start to a career that would eventually form one of the most innovative and inspiring bands from the 'death metal' tag (though i would just say they were experimental). A powerful opener and closer that stay true to two of my favourite songs from atheist. Great album.
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10.09.2012 - 20:46
Rating: 8
Angry Chair

Just listened to it. ITS AMAZING.

there is a thrash feel to it imo
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"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
- Denis Diderot
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11.09.2012 - 23:24
Rating: 9
JÄY
Metal slave
Written by Angry Chair on 10.09.2012 at 20:46

there is a thrash feel to it imo

Most definitely....That's the main reason I consider this to be their masterpeice over the next release
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12.09.2012 - 00:05
Rating: 8
Angry Chair

Written by JÄY on 11.09.2012 at 23:24

Written by Angry Chair on 10.09.2012 at 20:46

there is a thrash feel to it imo

Most definitely....That's the main reason I consider this to be their masterpeice over the next release


Yeah, I do also prefer this one over the next release (unquestionable presence I think its called). I am quite a big fan of thrash metal so I did really enjoy this.
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"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
- Denis Diderot
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04.07.2013 - 18:32
Rating: 8
NocturnalStalker
Metal Addict
I like this album and find it really good, but still prefer the next two albums for "Piece of Time" sounds a bit less technical and more thrash-y.
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"And we are not who we think we are
We are who we're afraid to be"
- Lux Occulta "The Opening of Eleventh Sephirah"
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18.02.2022 - 15:19
Dylan 1974

Most modern tech death bores me fucking senseless but this is awesome. It's intricate but still engaging and I always return to it.
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11.03.2022 - 18:10
Rating: 10
ChapuLviz
Tropical Goat
I don't know why I had never heard this album, it's awesome.
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23.04.2022 - 08:38
Rating: 8
AndyMetalFreak
A Nice Guy
Proper old school tech death, with the aggression of Kreator, and the groove of Slayer. It's very well produced, with excellent bass, and crazily complex riffing, but also very melodic at the same time, with a real progressive element too, not just over the top technical wankery of some tech death bands nowadays as people call it

"On They Slay", "Why Bother" and "I Deny" are truly impressive songs.
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11.11.2023 - 10:37
Rating: 9
DarkWingedSoul

Revisiting this classic awesomeness....
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