Attomica

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Attomica
General information
origin São José dos Campos , Brazil
Genre (s) Thrash metal
founding 1985, 2002
resolution 1994
Website www.attomica.com
Current occupation
Alex Rangel
João Paulo Francis
Electric guitar
 Jonas Rodrigues
Ricardo Takamatsu
Rodrigo Kusayama
former members
E-bass, meanwhile also vocals
 André Rod
Drums
 Mário Sanefuji
Electric guitar
 Pyda Rod
singing
 Laerte "Animal" Perr
singing
 Fábio Moreira
Electric guitar
 João Márcio Francis
Electric guitar
 Luiz Amadeus
Drums
 Vittor Fryggy
Drums (live)
 Paulo Giolo

Attomica is a Brazilian thrash metal band from São José dos Campos , which was founded in 1985, disbanded in 1994 and has been active again since 2002. In the meantime the group called itself Atomica .

history

The band was formed in October 1985 by guitarist João Paulo Francis and drummer Mário Sanefuji. A short time later, the singer Laerte Perr and the brothers Pyda (electric guitar) and André Rod (bass) joined and completed the line-up. The first appearances followed, as well as a first demo in 1986, which was followed by the self-titled debut album via Equinox Discos in 1987 . The publication was followed by a tour of Brazil, after which the singer Perr left the band and was replaced by Fabio Moreira. The second album Limits of Isanity was released in 1989 via Cogumelo Records . In the meantime Moreira had already left the band, so that the bassist Rod also took over the vocals on the album. After another tour of Brazil, where Paulo Giolo worked as a drummer, the guitarist Pyda Rod left the line-up and was replaced by João Paulo's brother João Márcio Francis. The 1991 album Disturbing the Noise featured Fabio Moreira, who had returned to the band. The music video for Deathraiser was broadcast on various TV shows, including MTV . The publication followed various appearances, including as the opening act for Kreator at his appearances in Brasília and São Paulo . In 1994 the band split up.

The band was re-founded in 2002, with Luciano Peru as the new singer. In 2004, Cogumelo Records re-released a remastered version of Disturbing the Noise , which includes the two live songs Deathraiser and Ways of Death and the music video for Deathraiser as a bonus . In the same year, the live album Back and Alive was also released on Hellion Records , on which the group called itself Atomica. On the 2012 studio album 4 , the band called themselves again Attomica. You can hear Alex Rangel as the new singer.

style

According to Eduardo Rivadavia from Allmusic , the first demo played fast heavy metal with Portuguese lyrics before turning to a mixture of speed and thrash metal with English lyrics. Limits of Isanity is very similar to the Thrash Metal style from the San Francisco Bay Area . According to classicthrash.com , the band plays classic Brazilian Thrash Metal on Attomica . The songs are powerful, but they get boring in the long run. Limits of Insanity is more ordinary and emotionless compared to its predecessor, as the songs now lack energy. The songs are not very memorable. In Disturbing the Noise there is strong vocals, the songs are wild and energetic. The lyrics are stereotypical and stupid, even by Thrash Metal standards. They would contain cheap violence and horror movie references. 4 shows that a band, even more than 20 years after the last album was released, can publish a sound carrier that hardly offers a tonal difference to the old material.

According to thethrashmetalguide.com , the band on Attomica plays aggressive Thrash Metal in the style of groups like Vulcano and Sarcófago . The sound quality is bad, so that you can only hear a wall of noises, from which you can most likely still recognize the singing, which are black metal- like shouts . The song Lost Time has a ballad-like intro, Flesh Maniac is modern Thrash Metal and Samurai is one of the first real Death Metal compositions. Limits of Insanity is much more moderate, so that one wonders whether this is still the same band. The biggest difference is above all the new singer André Rod. The music is Thrash Metal, with borrowings from other areas of Extreme Metal and also Power Metal influences can be heard. The speed of the songs is now slower and the musical demands are higher. The title song is seven minutes long. Disturbing the Noise is less cliché than its predecessor. Thrash Metal can be heard on the album, which sounds like a mixture of Sepultura's Beneath the Remains and Slayers Reign in Blood . It also sounds like the Devastation album Idolatry , which was released that same year. 4 offers Thrash Metal with slight crossover influences and loud shouting . In addition to fast Thrash Metal, there are also songs like Black Death , which is a gentle mixture of Power and Thrash Metal, as you could hear on the debut.

Discography

Demos

  • 1986: Children's Assassin (self-published)
  • 1990: Attomica (own publication )
  • 2005: Atomica 2005 (self-published) As Atomica.

Studio albums

  • 1987: Attomica (Equinox Discos)
  • 1989: Limits of Insanity ( Cogumelo Records )
  • 1991: Disturbing the Noise (Cogumelo Records)
  • 2002: Back and Alive (Hellion Records) as Atomica.
  • 2012: 4 (Oversonic Music)
  • 2018: The Trick (Marquee Records)

Concert albums

  • 2002: The Blast of Video (DVD; self-published)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Biography. (No longer available online.) Rockdetector.com, archived from the original on November 9, 2014 ; Retrieved November 9, 2014 .
  2. ^ A b Eduardo Rivadavia: Attomica. Allmusic , accessed November 9, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Biography ( Memento from August 18, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
  4. ^ Classic Thrash - Reviews - A. classicthrash.com, accessed November 9, 2014 .
  5. ↑ ATOMICA (BRAZIL). thethrashmetalguide.com, accessed November 9, 2014 .