Atka - Untitled Album 1 (2018)^{Release ID: 14030}

PURE…… CHAOS……

PURE… UNADULTERATED…. UNMITIGATED…. RELENTLESS CHAOS!!!!

That’s what German mathgrind outfit Atka bring to the table alright. Seventeen short, sharp shocks to the system through incredible insanity, complexity, urgency & savagery & a front man who must surely be only moments away from a hernia given just how nuts he goes on every track. I’m honestly not sure how a band like Atka can keep this up for more than one or two releases & that seems to have rung true for Atka who haven’t been seen or heard of since.

I really am a sucker for inexcusably brutal yet well produced extreme metal music, aren’t I? Particularly when the level of musicianship is as high as it is here. I mean if The Dillinger Escape Plan looked side to side I’m sure they’d see Atka sitting right alongside them in that department only they’re carrying a whole array of super-intense blast-beats to scare your boss, your girlfriend & your Aunty’s best friend right back to wherever it is they came from. At just thirty minutes in duration you would think that a record like this one would be well-served by the short runtime but I would think that even such a brief dalliance with the senses would be almost too much to bare in one sitting for the majority of casual metal fans. Thankfully I’m not a casual metal fan by any means & this record was right up my alley. May the song structures have ADD & the blast-beats be eternal I say!

For fans of Discordance Axis, Antigama & Fuck The Facts.

Good amount of chaotic potential, though much too intense for my liking. Daughters' Canada Songs had the one to two minute grind-mathcore song aspect done much better. And those song titles are hard as sh*t to type without copy-pasting! The final 6 and a half minute epic works out well, but the rest of the album? No thanks! This is just another case of grind-mathcore sounding more than I can take....

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