Country: Sweden
Genre(s): Alternative Progressive Rock
Format: CD, digital
Release date: May 1, 2015
Tracklist:
1. Event Horizon (2:46)
2. What's Your Legacy to the World? (4:48)
3. Weapons of Mass Redemption (5:04)
4. In the Realm of the Living (5:01)
5. The Greatest Hoax (1:35)
6. We Created a Monster (3:58)
7. Memento Mori (7:22)
8. A Tribute to Carl Sagan (0:50)
9. Wrong (7:12)
10. Living a Lie (5:14)
11. Dreamweaver of the Dreamscape (6:15)
12. Sirenum Scopuli (4:29)
13. Purusartha (1:24)
14. Hitchslap (5:38)
15. Tambora Dirge (0:44)
16. We Will Never Live Again (3:49)
17. True Freedom (5:00)
Line-up:
Adam Hansen-Chambers - guitar, bass
Philippe Longchamps - drums, guitar, keyboards
With
Yoed Nir - cello on song 6.
Johnny Åman - upright bass on song 6 and bass overdubs on songs: 4, 10 & 14
Jörgen Birch-Jensen - guitar overdubs on songs: 10 & 14
Chris Larsen - additional bass on song 2 and guitar overdubs on songs: 2, 14 & 17
Mark Base & Lina Longchamps: additional back vocals on song 3
Description/Reviews:
With “Memento Mori” Atlas Volt returns with a vision-defining album that thoroughly establishes their wide-ranging style and eclectic sound. This new release features 17 original tracks including some long progressive songs, short interludes, riff-oriented alternative rock songs and a few instrumental tunes. “Memento Mori” is a concept album reflecting upon the secular humanist worldview. It questions the fundamentalist dogmas of religions and New Age cults, while examining their promises of an afterlife and restrictions on personal freedom. Moreover, “Memento Mori” is a narrative based on a retrospective introspection into the band members’ own religious upbringing. The lyrics are often presented as an inner dialogue between an “old-self” preaching the value of faith and morality, and a “new-self” defending the ethical values that emerged from the Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution. After being profoundly affected by the waves of violence sweeping around the world in recent years, Adam Hansen-Chambers and Philippe Longchamps decided to dedicate this new album to all the innocent victims of faith-based fundamentalism throughout history.
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