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AtomizerThe Only Weapon Of Choice Animosity International/Independent Subtitled "13 Odes To Power, Decimation And Conquest," 'The Only Weapon Of Choice' proves another fine offering from Melbourne thrash/black metal band Atomizer. As the above summary implies, numerous themes run through this album, the most noticeable being that of war (dealt with on six tracks). Much of the material on 'The Only Weapon Of Choice' is fast, sometimes very much so: particularly tracks such as And The Hunt Starts Again, Isolation and Join The Blackheart Reich. Slower pieces include The Campaign, whose first half is essentially an instrumental; and Sometimes They Hear The Bullet, a track I found particularly interesting. It opens with a deceptively gentle bit of guitar strumming before launching into the song proper: a slow, heavy and ominous-sounding piece littered with samples of rattling shell casings, whizzing bullets and other war-related sounds, something that works to great effect. In various places on this album, spoken word vocals are used: a first for an Atomizer release. These appear in When I Die, I Wanna Die Violently - a somewhat humorous song about preferring a violent and spectacular death over the more mundane forms of demise that most people hope will take them from this world - and at the end of the pessimistic For Blackness Absolute, a piece about the utter finality of death. They also make up the entire final track, the short but powerful The Fog Of War; a piece of narration uttered to the accompaniment of guitar music, vividly describing the hell of jungle warfare.  |
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