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At some point, Frank Hart was a part of a band called [[Love in Grey]] before forming Atomic Opera. | At some point, Frank Hart was a part of a band called [[Love in Grey]] before forming Atomic Opera. | ||
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+ | Atomic Opera formed in September 1991 when founding member Frank Hart moved from Missouri and joined forces with producer/ | ||
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+ | In December 1991, Atomic Opera went into Rampart recording studio with producer Sam Taylor, and Engineer Steve Ames to record a demo consisting of the songs "For Madmen Only", "Daze of Love In Grey", "The Meaningless Word," and " | ||
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+ | In September 1992, Sonnier quit the band, and was replaced on bass by his good friend and bass tech, Jonas Velasco. | ||
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+ | In 1994, after Derek Shulman, president of Collision Arts (a subsidiary of Giant Records) saw the band play live at Zelda' | ||
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+ | Often compared with [[King' | ||
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+ | The band's label Collision Arts ceased operations, and Atomic Opera found itself without a home, and released their next two albums without a supporting label. After struggling to gain mainstream popularity, the band broke up in 1995 and parted ways with Taylor. Hart continued to write music and decided to release a follow up album in 1997 under the Atomic Opera name called //Penguin Dust//, recruiting former drummer Mark Poindexter and multi-instrumentalist [[Kemper Crabb]] to assist; this album was released directly by Hart and shopped to various independent outlets. | ||
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+ | Due to the strength of //Penguin Dust//, Metal Blade Records quickly signed the band to a long term deal. Crabb became a full-time member, with longtime Hart friends John Simmons and Ryan Birsinger also rounding out the lineup. While working on new material, Hart compiled the album //Alpha and Oranges//, a collection of unreleased demos originally from the //For Madmen Only// lineup, and released this independently as well. In 2000, the band released //Gospel Cola// on Metal Blade with its new lineup; the album garnered some positive notice in both Christian and mainstream music outlets. | ||
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+ | Since that time, the band have endured a lot of setbacks (such as a flooded recording studio) and pursued various side projects (such as raising families, session work, multimedia projects, Hart's role as worship leader at a Houston area church, and managing Hart's label Feverdream Records). After adding [[Trip Wamsley]] to the lineup in 2004, and parting ways with Metal Blade, the band were working on a new album called //The Mystery of Hope//, but there has been no news on this effort for several years. The band did have a reunion concert in late 2014 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of //For Madmen Only//, in addition to re-releasing a remaster of the album with bonus tracks. | ||
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The Atomic Opera Timeline from the old Atomic Opera website: | The Atomic Opera Timeline from the old Atomic Opera website: | ||
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- | //(...to be continued...)// | + | ==== Gospel Cola ==== |
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+ | 2000 Metal Blade Records | ||
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+ | Frank Hart - Vocals, guitar, cello\\ | ||
+ | Ryan Birsinger - Bass, Chapman Stick, vocals\\ | ||
+ | John Simmons - Drums, percussion, vocals\\ | ||
+ | [[Kemper Crabb]] - Vocals, mandolin, dulcimer, recorder, bouzouki, harmonica, ocarina | ||
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+ | - Jesus Junk (3:29) | ||
+ | - October (3:58) | ||
+ | - Winterland (4:02) | ||
+ | - Reiah Discerns the Times (2:20) | ||
+ | - Malediction (5:30) | ||
+ | - My Head (3:59) | ||
+ | - Silence (2:48) | ||
+ | - Muse (6:02) | ||
+ | - Love is as Strong as Death (3:59) | ||
+ | - The Circle is Closed (4:49) | ||
+ | - Stop My Heart (3:35) | ||
+ | - Doxology (5:58) | ||
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