Atonement (Immolation album)

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Atonement
Immolation Atonement album cover.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 24, 2017 (2017-02-24)
RecordedMillbrook Sound Studios, Millbrook, New York
Genre Death metal
Length48:48
Label Nuclear Blast
Immolation chronology
Kingdom of Conspiracy
(2013)
Atonement
(2017)
Acts of God
(2022)

Atonement is the tenth studio album by American death metal band Immolation. It was released on February 24, 2017, through Nuclear Blast Records. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 82/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles 9.5/10 [3]
Consequence of Sound B [4]
Exclaim! 9/10 [5]
Metal Forces 9/10 [6]
MetalSucks Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Pitchfork Media 7.7/10 [8]
Sputnikmusic3.7/5 [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]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
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

Personnel

Immolation

Technical

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