Atomsmashers

Atomsmashers pulls on grindcore, steel, digital hardcore, pc editing and enhancing technology, and the usual earsplitting noise to make their challenging, groundbreaking intensive music hybrid. Their particular sound is practical after taking into consideration its people’ diverse specific backgrounds: guitarist/bassist/head James Plotkin is well known for his function proceeding the experimental Earache-label steel band Old as well as for his dark ambient collaborations with Mick Harris and K.K. Null; drummer Dave Witte provides earned a popularity as a fantastic grindcore/steel drummer predicated on his efforts to Discordance Axis, Individual Remains to be, Burnt By sunlight, and other clothes; and vocalist Speedranch provides garnered interest for his confrontational, noise-laden electronica recordings with collaborators such as for example Jansky Sound and Venetian Snares. Atomsmashers’ people live in distinct locales — Plotkin and Witte in NJ, Speedranch in Manchester, Britain — plus they possess utilized some unconventional method of documenting their music so far: their self-titled debut was documented with Plotkin acquiring Witte’s already-recorded drum parts, digesting them, adding bass and electric guitar, and lastly adding in Speedranch’s very own heavily prepared vocals, which he previously sent overseas on the CD-ROM. That record arrived in middle-2001 for the Increase H Noise Sectors label, an experimentally willing subsidiary of Hydrahead Information. Quickly before Atomsmashers’ discharge, it had been announced that the trio got agreed upon to Ipecac Information — the label operate by Mr. Bungle/Fantomas frontman Mike Patton — because of their second full-length discharge.