Atlantis is the eleventh studio album by Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 hard rock

Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

 band TNT

TNT (band)

TNT is a Norwegian hard rock/glam metal band from Trondheim, formed in 1982. The band has released twelve studio albums, three EPs and two live albums while going through numerous line-up changes since its formation...

. It was released on September 22, 2008.

Track listing

1. "Hello, Hello"(Ronni Le Tekro, Tony Mills, Erland Hvalby) - 4:03
2. "Peter Sellers Blues" - 4:45
3. "Baby's Got Rhythm" - 3:39
4. "Tango Girl"(Tekro) - 4:08
5. "Me and Dad" - 7:52
6. "Atlantis" - 4:09
7. "The Taste of Honey"(Mills, Tekro, Persen) - 3:42
8. "Bottle of Wine" - 3:17
9. "Missing Kind" - 4:07
10. "Love of My Life" - 3:14
11. "Had it, Lost it, Found it" - 4:55

Bonus tracks

• "June" (live in 2007 - bonus track on Japanese edition)
• "Substitute" (live in 2007 - bonus track on European edition)

Band/Personnel

• Tony Mills
  Tony Mills (musician)
  Tony Mills is an English musician and the vocalist in the Norwegian hard rock band TNT.Hailing from Birmingham, when he was 14 years old, he sang in his first band, the punk band The Rip-Offs, before joining fellow Birmingham punk band Cracked Actors as bass guitarist...
  
   – lead and harmony vocals
• Ronni Le Tekrø – guitars, backing vocals, sitar
  Sitar
  The 'Tablaman' is a plucked stringed instrument predominantly used in Hindustani classical music, where it has been ubiquitous since the Middle Ages...
  
   on "Baby's Got Rhythm"
• Victor Borge
  Victor Borge (bassist)
  Victor Cito Borge is the bassist in the Norwegian hard rock band TNT and the black metal band Tulus. He joined TNT in 2005, replacing Sid Ringsby.Borge started playing the bass when he was 8 years old...
  
   – bass guitar, backing vocals
• Diesel Dahl
  Morten Dahl
  Morten "Diesel" Dahl is the drummer and co-founder of the Norwegian hard rock band TNT.He started playing the drums at the age of 15, and played in bands like Burn, Edge and Hotlips before he formed TNT together with vocalist Dag Ingebrigtsen in 1982...
  
   – drums and percussion

Additional personnel

• Mari Persen - violin and violin arrangements on 7
• Markus Klyve - keyboads on 4, 7, 9
• Tony Caputo - organ on 3
• Jon Johannessen - additional twang guitar on 3
• Heidi Ruud, Renate Helland - additional backing vocals on 8
• HP-Gundersen - slide and additional backing vocals on 4, piano on 3, 11
• Erland Hvalby - synthesizer on 1, castanets on 4
• Dag Stokke
  Dag Stokke
  Dag Stokke was a Norwegian keyboardist, church organist and mastering engineer best known for his work with the Norwegian rock bands TNT and Vagabond...
  
   – keyboards
• Tommy Hansen – mixing

Reception

The album was much more well received than The New Territory

The New Territory

The New Territory is the tenth studio album by the Norwegian hard rock band TNT, and was released on 30 June 2007.-Track listing:# "A Constitution" - 4:16# "Substitute" - 2:42...

, with many Norwegian outlets giving it 5 or 6 out of 6, European metal review site Hard Rock Haven giving it 8.1/10. However, Melodic Rock gave it a significantly less enthusiastic review of 69%, though the reviewer did state it was better than The New Territory. German newspaper reviews have been detracting.