Gama Bomb

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Gama Bomb
Country	Northern Ireland & Republic of Ireland
Years active	2002–Present
Genres	Thrash metal Speed metal Heavy metal
Labels	Witches Brew
Members	Philly Byrne Luke Graham Joe McGuigan Paul Caffrey Domo Dixon
Website(s)	www.gamabomk.tk

Gama Bomb are a thrash metal band mainly based in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

1 Background
2 Discography
- 2.1 Albums
- 2.2 Singles & EPs
3 External links

[edit] Background

Gama Bomb exploded onto the Irish music scene in 2002 with their first release 'The Survival Option' telling wild tales of zombies, hell truckers and skeets, and soon earned themselves a reputation as an energetic and uncompromising live act. After the release of 2004's 'The Fatal Mission' Gama Bomb relentlessly toured the UK and Ireland with front man Philly Byrne dressing as a chef, a priest, a pirate and an unhinged scientist in an ever more outrageous live stage show.

Stylistically rooted in 1980s metal and influenced by acts such as Nuclear Assault, Kreator, Agent Steel, Sodom, and early Megadeth, Gama Bomb released their full-length debut 'Survival of the Fastest' through European music label Witches Brew in 2006.

The band have just completed recording on a new studio album tentatively named "Citizen Brain" which they plan to release in summer 2007. They are currently scheduling gigs throughout the UK and Ireland in preparation for a release.

As of 2007 Gama Bomb consists of Philly Byrne (vocals), Joe McGuigan (bass), Luke Graham (guitar), Domo Dixon (lead guitar) and Paul Caffrey (drums).

[edit] Themes And Lyrics

Gama Bomb's lyrics are heavily referential of horror, action and sci-fi movies, cartoons and computer games of the 1980s, as well as paying tribute to many classic heavy metal themes and motifs. Infrequently, they also write topical songs on current issues like racism and global warming. The band strive to inject their own sense of humour into their lyrics, often manifesting itself as deliberate grammatical error and bizarre sentence construction in their lyrics, as well as through nonsensical and convoluted song concepts which satirise the classic heavy metal formulae. Recurrent themes to be found in Gama Bomb songs are cannibalism, war, zombies, human sacrifice and technological revolt.