OTEP Atavist - 2011 Metal CD, regular edition
Format: CD
Condition: New
Year of Release: 2011
Cat. No.: 6232
Label: Victory (USA)
California's OTEP will release its new album, "Atavist", on April 26 2011 via Victory Records.
Former THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN drummer Gil Sharone laid down the drum tracks on the CD, which will be released in both standard and CD/DVD deluxe editions.
OTEP frontwoman Otep Shamaya had the following to say about "Atavist": "This album is a return to the umbra, to the darkest parts of me. I am fortifying this fortress of sound with Cyclopean masonry.
"The language on my lips is forged from forbidden tongues 12 lifetimes old. I am the heart of the gorgon, the broken mind of the lunatic, the courage of the martyr, the voice of the insurrectionist, the agog of the alchemist, I am the defiance in the aching souls waiting for the flame, I am the mighty Minotaur raging against the labyrinths of isolation and sadness.
"There is a purposeful primal spirit to this record, a coded provocation to remember our connection to the infinite, to the mysterious, to each other."
Otep Shamaya was nominated for "Outstanding Music Artist" in the 21st annual Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Media Awards.
An outspoken advocate of gay rights, Shamaya serves as a key figure in the movement to promote fair, accurate, and inclusive representation of people and events in the media as a means of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.
TRACK LISTING:
1 Atavist Animus
2 Atom To Adam
3 Drunk On The Blood Of Saints
4 Remember To Forget
5 Skin Of The Master
6 We Dream Like Lions
7 I, Alone
8 Baby's Breath
9 Fists Fall
10 Stay
11 Bible Belt
12 Not To Touch The Earth
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