ATOMIC – Separate Races CD

Description

Long-lost second full length album from Atomic that should have been released in 1996 but never did, until now! This is very typical of the time; the riffs are more mechanical and chunky, drums are more punchy and industrial-sounding. It sounds quite like Fear Factory, basically. Now the Nuclear War Noobs contingent may scoff at this, but the mid-90s was a time where pretty much all bands were effected in some way by this tidal change in sound. As someone who was unfortunate enough to be a teenager at that time, I kinda felt like I just missed out on all the cool stuff of the late 80s but it encouraged me from a really young age to be foreced to explore the underground more. Anyway, I rambling…I LIKE the first couple of Fear Factory albums. They still stand up! And a band who knows how to write a good riff, still knows how to wrie a good riff if they’re playing mid-paced groove metal or priitive thrash. So this gets my approval, for what it’s worth.