Atrocity

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ot to be confused with Atrocity from Bamberg, Bavaria who changed their name to Atrocity Exhibition.

The band originally played grindcore under the name Instigator. Upon changing their name to Atrocity, they changed to a death metal sound, as heard in 1990's debut Hallucinations and 1992's Todessehnsucht under the membership Alex Krull (vocals), Oliver Klasen (bass), Mathias Röderer (guitars), Richard Scharf (guitars) and Michael Schwarz (drums). On the 1994 album Blut with Markus Knapp taking bass, Atrocity started to incorporate influences from other genres like hardcore, goth rock, folk, and industrial metal. Later releases saw the band continue to experiment with varying genres on each release until 2013's Okkult where the band largely returned to a death metal sound.

Before the band's sound shifted to Death Metal there was a large discography of releases in the form of Willenskraft now with Thorsten Bauer on guitars and songwriting (tracks 2-5, 7, 8) and Chris Lukhaup on bass. Werk 80 (1997), Gemini (2000) with Martin Schmidt on drums and songwriting (tracks 1, 3-5, 7-10), Atlantis (2004), Werk 80 II where the4 drum roll was once again change this time to Moritz Neuner.

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