Attomica
Disturbing The Noise

THE REVIEW

After a long and exhausting week of work, there's nothing better than a good overdose of Japanese anime and old-school thrash metal, the more vintage, the better, that sounds truly old, handcrafted but blows your brains right out of your nose. 

I am convinced of this.

Work is stressful.

Power metal gives you diarrhea.

Thrash is simply cool. It's my manna from heaven.

Back to us. I've already sung the praises of the aforementioned Carioca band with the unoriginal moniker, very similar (the plagiarism is evident) to that of the seminal Testament and with a truly brutal sound. A review of their self-titled album, which I myself consider a crappy review, definitely written poorly (but I was just starting out……). 

However, that record, “Attomica,” drove me nuts.

This “Disturbing The Noise” is their third album, released right after “Limits Of Insanity” which I never had the honor and pleasure to listen to.
Unable to make comparisons with the previous one, I will with the debut album from the Atomic Brazilians, that is, the aforementioned self-titled album.

First of all, the production. It's definitely improved, a bit dirty (but it's good like that… today all those polished productions don't do justice to thrash metal, damn it!). Just enough to make the guitar sound very distorted and so "mosquito-like" (a term I just coined and hope will end up in the dictionary one day). 

Another thing that immediately catches the ear is the singing of singer-guitarist João Márcio, who has abandoned the early black screams (which gave the impression of being possessed) to adopt a more human type of voice, allowing us to understand what the hell he's singing (or rather: screaming). He's still a first-rate singer. 

The speed also seems to have decreased. But it's just an impression. This is because, in this album, Attomica has decided to show off their skills in an exaggerated manner. No more unbridled and crazy speed, but a more thoughtful, reflective songwriting. More focused on substance and the care of the "song form". A decidedly more technical album, with sudden tempo changes and incredibly intricate riffs. But, when it's time to accelerate, Attomica doesn't hold back and… even those fairies from Dragonforce, in comparison, seem like cheap snails. Listen to believe the opener, “Violen Adn Terror” or “Blood”, just to name 3 at random. 

Sudden solos played at the speed of light and chased by the demonic drummer and his kit that sows devastation and seems to be a jackhammer with an inexhaustible power source. 

Simply fantastic. Simply unrepeatable in their genre.

It's a shame they didn't achieve the success they deserved. 

The only weak point of the album? Its poor, almost unobtainable availability.

For everything else: a true ATTOMIC bomb!