Atomic Winter is the Swedish heavy metal

Heavy metal music

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 band Destiny

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's second studio album. It was released in September 1988 on both vinyl and CD.

The album contains a re-recording of the song "Spellbreaker" from the previous album Beyond All Sense

Beyond All Sense

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. The album cover was painted by Derek Riggs

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, of Iron Maiden fame.

Reception

The album plunged into obscurity, despite positive responses from reviewers. "I won't waste space with their history, since I need all the space to praise them", a fanzine reviewer wrote. Paul Miller of Kerrang!

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claimed that "Quality of this sort his hard to find" and gave Atomic Winter KKKK½. Domestic reviews were also favourable: "Without doubt one of the most interesting bands" was Tore Lund's verdict on the tabloid GT , whereas Fia Persson of Expressen

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found the album to be "surprisingly fast and good".

Track listing

1. "Bermuda" (Floyd Konstantin, Zenny Gram, Jörgen Pettersson) - 4:15
2. "Who Am I" (Konstantin, Gram) - 3:40
3. "Spellbreaker" (Magnus Österman) - 3:55
4. "Beware" (Konstantin, Gram, Pettersson) - 4:49
5. "Religion" (Stefan Björnshög, Gram, Pettersson) - 5:25
6. "The Extreme Unction" (Petterson, Håkan Ring) - 2:48
7. "Dark Heroes" (Gram, Pettersson) - 6:38
8. "Living Dead" (Björnshög, Gram) - 3:20
9. "Atomic Winter" (Konstantin, Gram) - 8:09

Band members

• Zenny Gram (formerly Hansson) - lead and backing vocals
• Stefan Björnshög - bass, backing vocals
• Floyd Konstantin - guitar
• Jörgen Pettersson - guitar
• Peter Lundgren - drums

Additional musicians

• Henryk Lipp - keyboards
• Pär Edwardsson, Thomas Eriksson - backing vocals