Biography
Born as a 5-piece band in 2001, Atomic Ants have been playin’ together for their first 4 years in Italy more that 150 shows supporting several notorious outfits, such as Linea 77, Planet Funk, Million Dead, Addiction Crew, 3 Allegri Ragazzi Morti, Forty Winks, Moravagine, 24 Grana.
Afetr that, the band recorded their debut album at the Blue Noise Studio (Trento, Italy) featuring Alex Guadagnoli (Addiction Crew, Earache Records) as artistic producer, and Fabio de Pretis as Sound Engineer.
At the end of the recording session the band parted ways with the fifth member, and chose not to replace him.
Mastering session have been supervised by Mauro Andreolli (Extrema, Ligabue, Negrita, Biagio Antonacci, Daniele Silvestri, Casino Royale, Vision Divine, Addiction, Folder…) at DAS ENDE DER DINGE STUDIO (Trento, Italy) .
This album, named “KEEP COOL AND DRY”, was released for Casket Music/Copro Records on January 2006 under a worldwide distribution agreement with Plastic Head. Both Artwork and band logo have been created by Geoffrey Rousselot (Strapping Yound Lad, Devin Townsend Band, Annihilator…) for Deep Peace Design.
The album got enthusiastic reviews on each corner of Europe and the rest of the world also, and many songs have been broadcasted by radios everywhere (Spain, Belgium, France, Romania, Germany, Russia, Argentina, Australia, South Korea, Japan, U.S., and Canada).
Following this release, the band toured the U.K. in Sept. 2006, among their label “Casket Lullabies Tour 2006”, playing 10 gigs between England and the Wales, with smashing live acts in London’s Underworld, Manchester’s Satan Hollow, Milton Keynes’ Pitz, Coventry’s Jailhouse.
While promoting their tour, the band appeared on most popular UK music magazines, such as Kerrang!, Metal Hammer UK, Rock Sound UK, and Terrorizer, and also radios such as London’s TTR (Total Rock Radio) interviewed the band’s singer, Junior.
The Casket Lullabies Tour 2006 got 4Ks out of 5, on Kerrang! on its live act review page.
Shortly after the end of the UK tour, the video for their single John G. was presented to the italian crowd, as the band hosted a 1-hour show called DATABASE on Italy’s premiere Rock/Metal TV channel, called ROCK TV. The video is in rotation also on MatchMusic.
ATOMIC ANTS ARE CURRENTLY WORKING ON THEIR SECOND ALBUM.
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