Atrocity "Hallucinations"

Hallucinations is the debut album by the German death metal band Atrocity. It was released in 1990 by Roadrunner Records and was produced by Scott Burns. This is a concept album which follows the story of a young girl who is sexually abused as a child, and her descent into drug abuse and eventual death.

The album was reissued in 1997 with the Blue Blood EP.

Track listing

1. "Deep in Your Subconscious" – 5:26
2. "Life Is a Long and Silent River" – 3:36
3. "Fatal Step" – 2:45
4. "Hallucinations" – 4:30
5. "Defeated Intellect" – 5:25
6. "Abyss of Addiction" – 3:39
7. "Hold out (To the End)" – 5:14
8. "Last Temptation" – 5:17

Music by Mathias Röderer.

The album includes the following warning note: "The characters, places and incidents described in Hallucinations are the product of Alexander Krull's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locations, is entirely coincidental".

The cover painting:

Work #93, "Hommage an S. Beckett I"

100 cm x 80 cm painted in oil on wood, 1968.

Recording information:

Recorded and mixed at Morrisound Recordings, Tampa, Florida, June/July 1990.

Co-produced and co-mixed by Atrocity