BAND OF THE DAY: ATOMCK

Having played almost every decent grind-related show, or designed the poster for it, within the blast radius of Wales and the Midlands, once-digital (bastard) noise trio Atomçk spliced together a storm of harsh electronica, brutal death/grind, sludge-like ditches of the dead and disorientating industrial oddness since inception in 2006. Fans of Rich Hoak's Peacemaker and Winters in Osaka, aside from being mostly art wankers, were stoked.

As prolific in output as you can only be if 40% of your material sounded like tiny sexy robots squeaking their tiny sexy robot mating calls at each other, and until fairly recently your drums are programmed, they've a deluge of old stuff to check out for free. So go do it. 

Since 2009 they've stopped being the cowardly meat-slaves of the machines, downgrading to straight up ball-crushing grind. Atomçk have a split 7” with Chicago mincecore outfit Paucities on the way and will be releasing an EP through J Randall's, he of upsetting metalheads on the internet and Agoraphobic Nosebleed fame, Grindcore Karaoke – which sort of means very little if you've released about a million things for download already, but the validation is nice, especially from the Ron Jeremy of sexy robot mating calls.