Atlantis Ascendant

by Bal-Sagoth

Atlantis Ascendant cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 17 April 2001
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 48:57
  • Community rating: 3.36/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Jonny Maudling, other, Byron Roberts, Chris Maudling, Mags, Mark Greenwell, Dave Mackintosh

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Continuing their massively ambitious, pulp-fantasy narrative universe, the British group delivers a remarkably cinematic, high-speed metal opus. The album heavily features bombastic keyboard orchestrations, frantic black metal blast beats, and elaborate spoken-word interludes.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, fantasy, harsh-vocals

Tracklist

  1. The Epsilon Exordium (3:36)
  2. Atlantis Ascendant (5:27)
  3. Draconis Albionensis (6:19)
  4. Star-Maps of the Ancient Cosmographers (5:12)
  5. The Ghosts of Angkor Wat (2:22)
  6. The Splendour of a Thousand Swords Gleaming Beneath the Blazon of the Hyperborean Empire (Part III) (7:18)
  7. The Dreamer in the Catacombs of Ur (5:16)
  8. In Search of the Lost Cities of Antarctica (5:42)
  9. The Chronicle of Shadows (5:34)
  10. Six Keys to the Onyx Pyramid (2:07)

Credits

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