Mesmerised

Norwegian extreme metal outfit Atrox was originally founded in 1988 under the very popular, and therefore unusable name of "Suffocation" (which they soon discarded), but their first album, Mesmerised would only surface nearly a decade later, in 1997. By then, the band's initial predilection for straightforward death metal had given way to a highly unconventional form of progressive death fusing elements of metal with opera, jazz, ambient music, space rock, and even electronica. Led by singer/keyboardist...