Endlich!
Natürlich gab es die Reissues aus 2000, aber auch diese drei Atheist-CD's gehen auf eBay für rund 45 Dollar. Jetzt werden Relapse die drei Scheiben wiederveröffentlichen. Erst kommt eine Vinylbox (limitiert auf 1000 Stück), dann folgen die Silberlingen.
Hier einige Kommentare von Kelly Shaeffer, zu lesen auf der Relapse-Website:
"I am overwhelmed with joy to see the re-release of the entire ATHEIST catalog after so many years." commented guitarist/vocalist and founding member Kelly Shaefer. Shaefer continues, "I've toured extensively since making these records, and everywhere I go I run into people who were not just into ATHEIST, but who praised the band's uniqueness and how much it forced them to progress as musicians and push the boundaries as players."
"I have been hunting for a label that would treat the catalog with the respect it deserves and whose goal is the same as ours: to turn the new generation of extreme metal and prog metal heads onto ATHEIST. Relapse is that label as it has a true understanding of where ATHEIST helped to rewrite the timeline of metal."
Relapse will start by issuing a limited edition, foil-stamped box set containing LP versions of each of the ATHEIST full-lengths, as well as the R.A.V.A.G.E. (pre-ATHEIST) "On They Slay" 7" EP exclusive to this edition. The LP box will be strictly limited to 1,000 copies and surface in July. The CD re-issues will follow in the late Summer/early Fall starting with Elements on August 30 (US) and September 5 (Europe).
More ATHEIST news and reissue information will be made available at the Relapse Records website: www.RELAPSE.com.