We formed Gama Bomb in 2002 as a project to reincarnate ourselves as this weird, old thrash band called Nuclear Assault. They seemed to have vanished from existence at the time, leaving behind only the battered cassettes we scooped up in a local library clearance. This was before Encyclopedia Metallum, or even MySpace. Basically the stone age.
All summer long we sat around like little caveboys, listening to singer/guitarist John Connolly bark, “Another oil spill, atomic waste displaced, another forest dies. Bring on the acid rain!” The politics were progressive, the vibe angry and un-self-serious. It seemed obvious we’d do the same. We wrote this song called Racists! and laughed at how retro and obvious it was to do something condemning Nazis. In the era of the still-flowering Northern Irish peace process, it seemed absurd.
