They have hit a total of 450 shows between Italyand the U.K., often supporting several notorious outfits, such as Linea 77, Planet Funk, Articolo 31, TheFabulous Disaster, Panic Cell, Million Dead, Vision Divine, 3 Allegri RagazziMorti, Extrema, Forty Winks, Marla Singer, Addiction Crew, Decrew, DaveAbruzzese.

In their early days, events such as SanRemoRock&Trend, I-Tim tour and Ritmi Globali Europei gave the band awareness and confidence abouttheir songwriting potential.

The debut album “KEEP COOL AND DRY” was recorded at Blue Noise Studiofeaturing Alex Guadagnoli (Addiction Crew, Earache Records) as artisticproducer. Mastering sessions were supervised by Mauro Andreolli (Extrema,Ligabue, Negrita, Biagio Antonacci, Daniele Silvestri, Casino Royale, VisionDivine, Addiction, Folder…).

“KEEP COOL AND DRY”, was released for Casket Music/Copro Records onJanuary 2006 under a worldwide distribution agreement with Plastic Head. BothArtwork and band logo have been created by Geoffrey Rousselot (Strapping YoundLad, Devin Townsend band, Annihilator, Biohazard.) for Deep Peace Design.

The album got enthusiastic reviews in Europe as well as the rest of theworld, and many songs have been broadcast by radios in U.K., Spain, Belgium,France, Holland, Denmark, Romania, Germany, Greece, Russia, Poland, Argentina,Australia, South Korea, Japan, U.S., and Canada.

Following this release, the band toured the U.K. in 2006, among theirlabel “Casket Lullabies Tour 2006”, playing 10 gigs between England and theWales, with smashing live acts in London’s Underworld, Manchester’s SatanHollow, Melton Keynes’ Pitz, Coventry’s Jailhouse.

While promoting their tour, the band appeared on most popular UK musicmagazines, such as Kerrang!, Metal Hammer UK, Rock Sound UK, and Terrorizer,and also radios such as London’s TRR (Total Rock Radio) interviewed the band’ssinger, Junior. The Casket Lullabies Tour 2006 got 4Ks out of 5, on Kerrang! onits live act review page.



In the meantime, many appearances on ROCK TV and italian music magazinesprovided Atomic Ants with remarkable notoriety. The video was on rotation alsoon ABC Australia and Match Music (Italy). Many live shows followed, whilewriting new music.

Atomic Ants also appeared in the CD compilation called “This Love: A Tribute to Dimebag” in memory of Pantera’s guitar player Dimebag Darrell,with a cover song of Pantera’s Mouth for War. This compilation arose lots ofinterest on medias all around the world, supported by Roadrunner’s news portalBlabbermouth and Max Cavalera (Sepultura, Soulfly).

The second album, "FORTHCOMING COUNTDOWN TO UNNEGOTIABILITY"was recorded, mixed and mastered between 2009 and 2012 at Red Angela Studios inBologna.

MUSIC STYLE (TAKEN FROM REVIEWS)

“... Among Metal, Funk, Crossover and much more than that, their soundadvance through roundabout coordinates without leaving no stone unturned. Avery good technique supports the originality of the songs, which are neverboring... It is difficult to image what Atomic Ants’ sound can reach, becausethe versatile faces of their musical behaviour suddenly hide and appear leavingyou shocked...”

“...this creole-sound reaches the edge when melting Funk and Cross-Over/ Nu-Metal power and anger, definitely catchy, it bumps into you and makes youshake your butt…”

" Atomic Ants are at their best when re-formulating rock music withhyper-sustained rhythmical approaches, such as the tribal of “Mariah”, thesustained funky of “Fidij” or the industrial of “John G.”..."

INFLUENCES

Faith no More, Stone Temple Pilots, Alice in Chains, Deftones, Pantera,Pink Floyd, RHCP