Atrocity News

Thursday, 10 December 2009 01:00

The top-20 chartbreakers keep their promise of delivering something completely new on their upcoming album.


While the band is preparing for the European run there is some great news to be announced: ATROCITY are recording a new record. It will be a project album featuring YASMIN, and it will be out next year!

The collaboration with Yasmin started previously on ATROCITY's legendary "BLUT" album (1994) where Alex's sister was doing guest vocals. In 1995 the mystical and very special ATROCITY feat. YASMIN "Calling The Rain" mini album was released, and became a success. "Calling The Rain" contained mainly acoustic songs which was a completly new aspect of making music for a Death Metal band in that time. As no other band was playing that kind of music, it was simply called "Ethno Metal". "A funny name for creating a kind of Metal, nobody had a name for. As we are a Metal act and playing with Yasmin songs influenced by "Ethno and World music", it's ok to me, although I don't like categories." states Alex Krull. The last ATROCITY feat. YASMIN song recorded was "Desert Land" for the first ORKUS Compilation in 1999. Since then fans kept on waiting for new material and asking for a new official release of ATROCITY feat. YASMIN. Last year "Calling The Rain" was re-released on Napalm Records.

After the Top 20 album "Werk 80 II" was released, ATROCITY announced that the new record will be totally different again and another special project album with Yasmin. Through the years ATROCITY wrote new songs for the new album with Yasmin. The production is in full swing and drummer Seven Antonopoulos has completed his drum tracks. On this album Seven utilzed a great amount of different percussion instruments.

Seven Antonopoulos: ''I really had fun tracking this record. Nowadays records are so over produced and slick sounding. It was nice to get in the studio and use organic drum sounds as well as a ton of percussion instruments. For the drums I played a 5 piece PDP kit and we used a few different DW wood snares. The 8' edge Collectors series was the main one though. A couple years ago I started experimenting with different kinds of percussion. On this record I used a cajon on almost all the tunes. As well as congas, bongos, timbales and all kinds of Rhythm Tech shakers and tambourines. Again, it was so refreshing to utilize natural instruments in a recording situation. I think the fans will be taking by the whole vibe and mood of the tracks.

This was my first time to work with Yasmin. She has a great voice and it was a real treat to see how she interpreted the songs. At this point I've been playing with Leaves' Eyes/Atrocity for a year. So, the studio process is pretty much second nature. All in all I'm proud of the work on the record, and I can't wait to hear the final mixes.'




Post: Francisco Monteiro