#unquestionable presence

[onlyhurtforaminute]

ATHEIST-UNQUESTIONABLE PRESENCE

[rastronomicals]

4:07 AM EDT October 9, 2024:

Atheist - "Enthralled In Essence" From the album Unquestionable Presence (August 30, 1991)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Tech Death

[phantomlordreshiram]

Some art of Ellis (design inspired by @isshusgotissues)! It’s some old art but I have a backlog of art I need to post lol. Art was inspired by possibly one of my favorite prog/death albums, Unquestionable Presence by Atheist.

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Atheist - Unquestionable Presence (1991)

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Atheist  - Enthralled in Essence

[alextherake]

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Atheist - Unquestionable Presence (1991)

I listened to this in early January. I was coming down from the high-octane Christmas season, going through some strange personal turmoil, and feeling a little (or a lot) exhausted from my monthlong metal binge.

Instead of helping me process my angst, this album just agitated me. I felt, intellectually, that I could jive with the anxious, jazzy movement of this music, but emotionally I was ticked off by what I heard as pseudo-enlightenment in the lyrics. It was all too reminiscent of the righteous ramblings of a mentally ill friend of mine, whom I miss incredibly.

Outside of the music, I kept circling around the themes delusion and disillusion. The sentence that kept coming to me was, “Why can’t people just be truthful with themselves?” I expect this most of all from artists, which is perhaps unfair of me, given how much myself and my friends, as artists, suffer from equal self-unsureness and delusion.

I’m letting myself feel anger about the fact that people can’t always be truthful with themselves. I’m not letting that anger get in the way of compassion for those people, including myself. I’m trying really hard not to let my attitude be coloured by self-directed anger. And all these swirling emotions aren’t attached to either action or repression, which is new territory for me. I discover I’m a stranger in a strange land, and that strange land is my own consciousness, and the only thing to do there is hang out.

Oh great, now I’M the Messiah of pseudo-enlightenment!

Anyways, looking back on my January notes for this, all I wrote was “I miss Nina Simone” - and left myself a reminder to link this song, so here ya go.

[rastronomicals]

August 30:

On this date in 1985, Stormtroopers of Death released their first album, Speak English Or Die. Gleeful with the politically incorrect, face-meltingly heavy, better than anything the members ever did in their day bands, better than this band would ever be again, Speak English scans heavy in the second decade of the 21st century.

On this date in 1989, Atheist released their debut album, Piece of Time. In fact, each of their first three albums was released on August 30th, Unquestionable Presence in 1991, and Elements in 1993. Which pretty much makes August 30 the greatest day in Tech Death history, right?

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7:36 AM EDT June 10, 2024:

Atheist - "Your Life's Retribution" From the album Unquestionable Presence (August 30, 1991)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Tech Death