After the band’s great 2023-released ‘Atomic Goat Exterminium!’-EP, I have kept my binoculars focused on Ecuador to see if there was any movement in the Atomic Goatcrime camp. The first 4-track EP definitely was a great appetizer and promised to be a perfect runner up for whatever was coming from this South American one-man army. Now, roughly 18 months on, we can now take the plunge with ‘Thermonuclear Humanicde’, a just over 30 minute exercise in bludgeoning Black/Death Metal in the most savage fashion.
One year and a half in between recordings isn’t necessarily much, but already after just a few moments of listening you actually know: literally nothing has changed since ‘Atomic Goat Exterminium!’. With commendable precision Subsonic Decimator (the pseudonym of the man behind the band) continues the musical course chosen on this album’s predecessor. That means that this is basically just the EP times two. There’s really hardly any difference, but I had to mention something it feels like this album is slightly more riff-based and does seem to lean less on the chaos-side of the Bestial/War Metal spectrum. But don’t worry, there is more than enough of that relentless pummelling and caveman savagery. If you liked the Bestial Warlust meets Conqueror of the band’s first feat, then this will definitely not disappoint.
At the risk of repeating myself a bit too often when reviewing this sort of music: Atomic Goatcrime is not here to reinvent the genre, or anything for that matter. In fact, Atomic Goatcrime is here to devastate and annihilate. Sometimes not many words are needed to express what something sounds like: totally destructive, a hoot if you like Bestial Warlust and Conqueror.
