Total Metal: The Neat Anthology - Atomkraft

Atomkraft possibly changed the metal world forever with their brand of proto-thrash metal but with several band line-up changes and a lack of commercial success, they are rarely credited with it. Initially just another band in the NWOBHM movement, their style differed from their contemporaries as they played a quicker brand of metal with vocals ranging from an almost motorhead sound to the occasional screaming track and heavy militant drumming rather than the power metal popular at the time. The booming vocals had to have influenced Slayer as they just sound to similar at times not to have done, the growls and screams thrown in often before guitar solos may ...  Read the complete review