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Last Updated: 11/20/2009

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Friday, October 30, 2009 
Do you have questions? Frequently? About our new album? Well, here are the answers you never asked for, and we never wanted to give. We hope you're happy now.


Q. In giving us your new album for free you are really spoiling us, but will there be a physical release of Tales from the Grave in Space? I like CDs and records and stuff.

A. Yes, there will be! The plan is to release Tales... as a deluxe CD and vinyl in January 2010. The extra treat is that the album's physical release will include an EP, titled Half Cut, which will not be available for GB-approved download. Half Cut consists of five new, never-before-recorded tracks laid down especially for the EP. There'll also be an extra-special boxed set at some point with CDs, vinyl, a t-shirt and art and all that stuff.


Q. How come your record label are up for giving your album, which cost money to record, away for free?

A. Well, it's because they're undertaking an experiment. Our label, Earache Records, are known for trying out different things, and this to them is a new way of releasing that will hopefully boost interest in the band and lead to more profit for them when they wheel out our physical release and all that jazz. To us, it's about the music reaching more potential fans and raising our profile, so we've got twin goals that don't conflict too much. Get it?


Q. What is the fastest land mammal?

A. The Cheetah.


Q. What's the dealio with the art? Who did it?

A. The AMAZING album art is by painter Jeff Jordan, who's best known for painting the covers of The Mars Volta's albums. He spent a lot of time and effort on it, and was inspired by the likes of Virgil Finlay and E.C Comics artists. The cover was then given a design makeover by the very sexy Rory McGuigan, who designs most of our graphics, sleeves, art and promotional material. They're both top men, and thorough.


Q. You're touring Europe, but you're not coming to my town / country any time soon. How do I remedy that, already?

A. The best way to get us to come to your town is to simply email us and your local promoter, so we can get hooked up with a show in your area. In 2010 we're planning on visiting the U.S and South America, so mail us at askgamabomb@gmail.com and we'll see what we can do.


Q. How can I keep up to date with the nonsensical ramblings of Gama Bomb?

A. Well, there are a few ways to do this: there's our Twitter page, where we talk rubbish (www.twitter.com/gamabombspeaks) and there's also a Tumblr account where we place photos and images when we can be bothered (gamabomb.tumblr.com). Apart from that, send us an email asking what's up and we'll reply if we're not too busy, or visit our frankly terrible blog (gamabomb.blogspot.com) if you fancy having a bad time.


Q. What is a prime number?

A. We don't know. Stop asking that sort of thing.


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Friday, October 23, 2009 
what do you want to hear this Nov/Dec? let us know below
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Thursday, October 01, 2009 
We're two weeks into our four week recording session for Tales from the Grave in Space in rural Suffolk, a place which is comparable to the surface of Mars in terms of things to do and see, and all is going well.

Drums for the album are now complete and sound wicked, and our barn house is ringing day and night with the sound of Domo's solos and my attempts at vocal exercises. Scott Atkins is working his butt off at the mixing desk and we've been drinking Mojitos.

One night we walked to a pub in the middle of nowhere and walked back down the country road in the dark, and nearly got killed by a few cars on the way. Imagine how famous we'd have been then. Damn.

Album tracks:
Polterghost
Skeletron
Last Ninjas Unite
New Eliminators of Atlantis B.C
Escape From Scarecrow Mountain
Return To Blood Castle
We Respect You
Slam Anthem
Mummy Invasion
Three Witches
Mussolini Mosh
Apocalypse 1997

We have been drinking:
Mojitos, Sports Bastard (Amaretto, fake Malibu and Ginger Beer), Boheme beer, Carlsberg, Red Wine, Bacardi, J&B Whiskey. Drinking doesn't make you cool, but it doesn't hurt your coolness, either.

We have been listening to:
Manilla Road, Motorhead, Judas Priest, Al Green, Jackie Wilson, Metal Church, Louis Jordan, loads of Jethro Tull.

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Tuesday, September 08, 2009 
We're pretty happy to announce that this November 5th we're going to be giving our third album, Tales from the Grave in Space, away for free through Earache Records.
On the day you'll be able to visit www.earache.com/gamabomb and download all the album tracks, as well as the cover art by Jeff Jordan, for nothing. 

Here's a video of Philly looking hung over at the Science Museum, trying to explain the whole shebang. 


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Thursday, August 20, 2009 
The signature art for our new album Tales from the Grave in Space, released this November 5th through Earache Records, will be a painting by artist Jeff Jordan, who has previously created album covers for The Mars Volta.

Jeff is a surrealist with an interest in mythology and painting giant farm animals, though he's looking to the work of Virgil Finlay for inspiration on the art for our new record. 

We're very excited to be working with Jeff, whose madness matches our own.

More news as we get it, jerks.

GAMA BOMB - Faster Is Gooder
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 
Our third album, which will be released November 5th on Earache Records, will be titled Tales From The Grave In Space.

The album is inspired by the horror and sci-fi compendiums of the 1950s and 60s and will feature cover artwork by a well-known fantasy illustrator.
Inspired by collections like Tales From The Crypt, The Twilight Zone, Eerie and Creepy, Tales From The Grave In Space's tracks take in topics ranging from the undead, technology run amok and ninja assassins to ghouls, ghosts and murder most foul.
It's business as usual, boils and ghouls. 

The record will be produced by Scott Atkins at Grindstone Studios, Suffolk, this autumn. Keep your eyes peeled for more major news on Tales as soon as we can let the (reanimated) cat out of the bag.

GAMA BOMB - Faster Is Gooder
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009 
We sat down to talk rubbish with Metal Hammer magazine recently, and are now part of a frankly bizarre but highly entertaining video compilation of bands both good, bad and 'who are these shit heads?' talking about the art of Speaking Welsh, Driving The Porcelain Bus, Shouting Rainbows and Eating Your Chips Backwards. Vomiting, like.

Watch and enjoy, and if you'd like to share your own story about gastric regurgitation with us, let us know below!

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New videos with other topics, like 'skull eating' and possibly 'man sex', will be posted every Monday for the next 8 weeks on the Metal Hammer site, so keep an eye out for more exciting and exclusive and excitingly exclusive GAMA BOMB exclusivity of an excitingly exclusive sort.

GAMA BOMB - Faster Is Gooder
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009 
Most of you guys know that we are forging a new LP this year. The idea behind it is 'more faster and more about less stuff'. 
Deal? Good. 
So, over the next few months we will be updating this blog and our blogspot  with some stuff, lyrics, links, tidbits and general cool things relating to our new Long-Player.
We'll be recording this new record in September with producer extraordinaire Scott Atkins for a late-2009 release, followed by our most ambitious live campaign so far.
There's a lot we still can't tell you though. Gigantic plans are afoot. Hop in on the ground floor.

To start the ball rolling here's some cryptic lyrical selections from our new songs...

"They were here once before (the village people) / Got no satisfaction,
ruling with a steel jaw / brain wine concoction (serious beatings)"

and

"Unable to bend their arms Due to the pole down their jumper / They mean to do us harm"

"Laughing with voices made of straw"

In the meantime, here are some videos of our new tunes Polterghost and Skeletron from our Hellfest and Tuska Open Air warm-up show with Lawnmower Deth at the weekend.

Got the picture? Check back with us soon for more information, you suckas.

GAMA BOMB - Faster Is Gooder
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Friday, May 29, 2009 
We'll be playing with LAWNMOWER DETH at a special warm-up show before our sets at Hellfest and Tuska, and we wanna offer YOU the chance to travel from London to fabulous Milton Keynes with us for the day. The plan is simple: You pay a thrifty £25, and get a ticket for the show along with a return coach trip from London to Milton Keynes. You'll also get a few tins of beer, the chance to bang with the Bomb to a soundtrack of thrash hand-picked by the band and a copy of the Bangers And Mash UK Thrash compilation. The coach pick-up is at 2pm in Golders Green (tube: Northern Line) and will drop passengers off in Golders Green at approximately 1am (night buses: N5 and N13). Howzaboutthat? The offer is open only to UK fans, and there are extremely limited places available on the Beer Bus, so get your name down now at the following internet number: www.resiliencerecords.bigcartel.com. Keep on thrashing and watching Predator 2 and cooking waffles in the toaster, mother fuckers! GAMA BOMB
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Friday, May 08, 2009 

Current mood:Child Uses Gun
So the ANVIL show in Dublin has been cancelled. Don't ask why: the reasons are the stuff of action men's nightmares, things only a hard-ass Snake Plissken copyist from Italy could ever understand.


BUT


All is not lost; we have slammed together an amazing, once-in-a-life time dream bill (for those who like old UK thrash bands) in the place of the Anvil show.

On June 5th at the Pitz in Milton Keynes we will be joined by the amazing LAWNMOWER DETH, fresh from their, er, being about to play Download the week after.

Also on the bill will be bad boys VIRUS and the amazing METAL MESSIAH. We are very humbled to play a show like this with so many of our heroes. Up the U.K.A.C!

What more could you ask? Acid Reign? Well...

So, we are hard at work bench-pressing new gama bomb album tunes into order. How would we describe them? Well, using only the 'plot keywords' from the IMDB Robocop 2 page we'd say:

Gatling Gun

Bloody Body Of Child

Megacorporation

Child Boss

and
Giant Robot

A set full of these descriptive-sounding songs will be seen at the gig on June 5th. New album blogs start next month.

By the way, got nothing to do? go check out Bonded By Blood touring the UK now.

JP you later, ID4 face!

GAMA BOMB - Faster Is Gooder

If it's not JP - It's extinct.

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