Atheist – Piece Of Time (Orange LP Vinyl)

Florida's Atheist were doing something almost no one else was in 1989, threading jazz-influenced chord progressions and odd time signatures through death metal in ways that made even seasoned technical players stop and reconsider what the genre could hold. Piece of Time, their debut, landed like a blueprint for a style that wouldn't have a name for years, with Roger Patterson's bass work alone making it a document worth returning to.