"Atlantis Ascendant is the fifth studio album by English metal band BAL-SAGOTH. It was released in April 2001 through Nuclear Blast. This was the first Bal-Sagoth album to be recorded (albeit only partially) with digital recording technology. The album's primary story and lyrical concept as written by vocalist-lyricist Byron Roberts centres on the exploits of a fictional nineteenth century British archaeologist and adventurer named Professor Caleb Blackthorne III, who has dedicated his life to the field of antediluvian anthropology and to seeking out evidence as to the true nature of humanity's origin. As with many protagonists in the Lovecraftian fashion, his investigations lead to madness and death." Dissonance Records Tracklisting: 1. The Epsilon Exordium2. Atlantis Ascendant3. Draconis Albionensis4. Star-Maps of the Ancient Cosmographers5. The Ghosts of Angkor Wat6. The Splendour of a Thousand Swords Gleaming Beneath the Blazon of the Hyperborean Empire, Part III7. The Dreamer in the Catacombs of Ur8. In Search of the Lost Cities of Antarctica9. The Chronicle of Shadows10. Six Keys to the Onyx Pyramid
