Every Friday, The Metal Examiner delves metal’s endless depths to present the genre’s most important and exciting albums.
Atheist: Jupiter (11/8/2010, Season of Mist)
Atheist’s first two albums are landmarks of technical death metal. These recordings represented a visionary take on metal composition conceived by injecting jazz-fusion riffing into the more structurally integrated style of death metal. Though under-appreciated during their time, these albums — Piece of Time and Unquestionable Presence — have since become part of the extreme-metal canon.