These German grinders kick total ass on this short-but-annihilating 3" CD. Opening with a intense spoken word piece, these six songs of monstrous chaotic grindcore kick in quickly with huge metallic riffs, super chaotic (but also INSANELY tight!) song structures, hyperspeed machinegun blastbeats and mathy, offbeat breakdowns, and a vocalist who seems to be channeling both Kevin Sharp and Jon Chang at the exact same time. This shit is nuts! No keyboards, no ambience, no electronics, just straight punishing grind played with virtuosic skill for the first few songs, but then - whoa - the last song comes in and all bets are off, it's a supremely catchy and melodic grindmetal anthem, with a KILLER midpaced thrash riff that turns into this weird almost garage-rock pop hook in the blink of an eye, super catchy, but with those bestial vocals still going, and then at the end it builds into an epic crescendo of melodic, almost shoegazey Swervedriver like guitar and soaring feedback, then done. What the fuck?! Before I got this in, someone had described Atka to me as a cross between Discordance Axis, Botch and Cephalic Carnage...seemed unlikely at the time, but hell, that seems a lot more accurate after finally hearing this thing... The whole thing is over in six minutes, but it's six minutes of anthemic technical grindcore AWESOMENESS, with that final song that I'm hoping, dreaming signals more to come from this band.

I've been working on getting their other releases in stock, it's slow going as Atka have no distribution here in the U.S> and most of their stuff is only available on vinyl, but keep an eye out for more to come...