Atonement | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | February 24, 2017 | |||
Recorded | Millbrook Sound Studios, Millbrook, New York | |||
Genre | Death metal | |||
Length | 48:48 | |||
Label | Nuclear Blast | |||
Immolation chronology | ||||
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Atonement is the tenth studio album by American death metal band Immolation. It was released on February 24, 2017, through Nuclear Blast Records. [1]
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 82/100 [2] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles | 9.5/10 [3] |
Consequence of Sound | B [4] |
Exclaim! | 9/10 [5] |
Metal Forces | 9/10 [6] |
MetalSucks | [7] |
Pitchfork Media | 7.7/10 [8] |
Sputnikmusic | 3.7/5 [9] |
Terrorizer | 9/10 [10] |
Atonement received universal acclaim from critics. At Metacritic (a review aggregator site which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 from music critics), based on 5 critics, the album has received a score of 82/100, which indicates "Universal acclaim". [2] Serena Cherry of Terrorizer called Atonement "one of the greatest albums of their career", being "packed with exactly the kind of mind-bogglingly intricate guitar work, meticulous song writing and guttural satanic growls that we have come to expect." [10] Exclaim! ranked the album at number 8 on their list of Top 10 Metal and Hardcore Albums of 2017. [11]
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "The Distorting Light" | 3:14 |
2. | "When the Jackals Come" | 3:54 |
3. | "Fostering the Divide" | 3:27 |
4. | "Rise the Heretics" | 3:41 |
5. | "Thrown to the Fire" | 4:04 |
6. | "Destructive Currents" | 4:26 |
7. | "Lower" | 4:01 |
8. | "Atonement" | 4:32 |
9. | "Above All" | 4:55 |
10. | "The Power of Gods" | 3:58 |
11. | "Epiphany" | 4:22 |
12. | "Immolation" (Re-recorded from Dawn of Possession) | 4:13 |
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