Gama Bomb Announces New EP

04/15/25 | [dcraley] | General News

Irish thrash masters GAMA BOMB are dropping a new four-song EP titled Necronomicon Automaton on April 18th via Prosthetic Records. Originally written for their 2023 BATS! album, the tracks were recorded in several locations and produced, mixed and mastered by Domo Dixon.

The band comments on the EP, "We approached writing our last album BATS in a very maximalist way: in total we had around 30 demos - some sketches, others fully-worked up - and ended up with a huge shortlist for the album itself. The songs on this EP are those that almost made the album, but were killed off for one reason or another and not fully finished. They kinda sat on a shelf ever since, until we dusted them off and finished the parts that were missing - and we're pretty pleased with the result! This is the bonus level to BATS: four ripping thrash metal deleted scenes rescued from the cutting room floor. We think it's got something of its own to say, and we hope our fans will agree."

Elaborating on the album artwork they add, "We take our art very seriously, and we're lucky to have amazing creative partners to help realise it. The EP's cover is by the legendary Graham Humphreys, artist behind film posters for A Nightmare On Elm Street and The Evil Dead. We were very lucky to get his help - this is the fifth cover Graham has done for the band, something we're very proud of. The art is based on the title track and is inspired by Victorian spiritualist photography. Our mascot Snowy is 'materialising' above the automaton lady. The sepia tone is a bit of a departure for us. Cover design was by Rory McGuigan, who's been our artistic director since we first started the band. The lettering is based on hand annotations which appear on old 1900s prison photos, mixed with symbols used by the Zodiac Killer to give it an occult look."

Necronomicon Automaton tracklist:
01 - Nunchuks!
02 - Intror the Deceiver
03 - Necropanzer
04 - Necronomicon Automaton

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