Phenomenal introductory track; makes me wonder if and how long you've been messing around with music production before you've started to submit your music tracks here almost twenty years ago. Your tunes might be filed solely under industrial in the Audio Portal, but I can hear all kinds of influences from different genres and styles throughout your discography. It's very apparent in your early material that the low-tuned, growling nature of metal guitars is the primary element you tend to work with though. You've definitely tried to branch away from relying on it too much with new approaches and tones later on, but to me it's always the guitars in particular which became the primer for your sonic-represented canvases stylistically.
When you look at your entire music history as a whole with that perspective in mind, it might seem that your library suffers from a lack of variety. But I think it's the defining trait of your personal style, and to me what sells a Helix6 composition. Along with the dance-oriented beats and bass-infused drums. Your electronic synths blend in really well too.
The above is something I could really copy and paste for when it comes to reviewing the bulk of your work, but it's a note I just wanted to get out of the way to start off with. A lot of aspiring musicians start their potential journeys on the Newgrounds, and granted a lot of them are genuinely capable and talented. I don't want to brush those people who have actually earned themselves a producing career, or any sense of legitimate success whatsoever. But in my two decades of lurking within the audio portal, I've found that no one has come close to honing their craft like you have in such a short time.
Maybe I'm just ignorant, but you're still my favorite user who's ever produced music on this platform after all of these years. Helix6 has been a quintessential part of all of my music libraries, MP3 players, and life itself. I'm at the point now where I've existed while being familiar with your material longer than I've been alive without it. Sadly it's been a long time since we've heard anything new from you, but I still have a glimmer of hope that someday you'll find the desire to return and produce something new.
But alas, onto the track itself now...
Atlantis might be one of your quieter tunes, but I think it's deliberately an attempt of creating something more foreboding in atmosphere. Or trying to create a background environment tone that whispers danger. Rather than establishing something that demands your attention or wants to yank your teeth out. Essentially the calm before the storm, if you will.
With that being said, The reference to the subterranean mythology that's full of mystery was the perfect title for the final results here.
I'm not too sure if the sample at the beginning works though. I don't know if it's the result of it being filtered, or the lower resolution of the bitrate that destroys it. I know distortion is a common element you seem to embrace, but I would have liked to been able to understand the exact words in retrospective. It seems like your music - while instrumental - seems to reflect your perspective against politics for the most part, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's a quote taken from that part of the world.
Structure wise, I think the song is solid as it is. The pacing and duration is perfectly balanced, and I don't think there's much that you could have revised apart from maybe a more distinctive third act towards the end. Perhaps you could have kept that same guitar melody at its core, but slightly expanded upon that and used a different drum pattern than re-using the same bit from earlier on? Definitely some different mixing of the elements for the introduction for your sample would have helped, though!
The conclusion is the most interesting part to me, and it's clear this serves as an transition towards your following song, Overkill. Maybe they can be considered a part one and two, or one whole mega track?
I wouldn't call Atlantis a highlight of your library of work, but the signs of the greatness that was yet to arrive at the time. A starting point for potential that was ripe for exploration; and discovery which indeed was found in subsequent time. Not much else to point out here, but I'm sure that I'll definitely have more to say as I cover the rest of your submissions in due time though.
Helix6 
