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They have managed to capture the madness in this years tour, and after several years working towards producing the album, it appears that producing newer experimental tracks, and having the conflict of a full commitment for performing every night some months, will take its toll.
We’re here with the band “Atomic Unknown” and talking to them about their recent success in their tour and album release this February.
Formed in Nottingham over 20 years ago, and huge fans of guitar virtuoso’s of what was 20 years before they had considered the pact between them, Atomic Unknown set out as a metal band, who would aim to capture what metal encompassed at the time; their “hair rock” like music; based on bands such as whitesnake and Bon Jovi was short lived, and when they began to discuss what music that brought them into playing their instruments, they soon realised after a few small pub gigs, that they would have been more accustomed to the fusion Genre’s of blues to acid rock.
So lets take a look at what they think of their own current success, and how they sometimes didn’t reach the goals they wanted to.
Here’s what three of the members had to say when we caught up with them:

When you first met, what where you’re impressions of each other?
David Galloway: I felt uneasy at first, we all kind of met up and I felt almost like a child at their day of school, I was very unsure about what people wanted to do, it took a while before we knew where we were going.
Mike D: It didn’t concern me too much, I’d felt uninspired for many years, and I wasn’t concerned with what we where going to do, but I guess I’m the drummer.
Jamie Ball: I felt positive, by the sound of it, I was the only person who was, without blowing my own trumpet, I’d like to think I turned the attitude around pretty quick.

From this where did you go, how did you decide what type of band you wanted to be?
Mike D: I sat back and just let things go wherever, if I could hit the beat I’d play it, which kind of pushed us into the popular metal scene at the time. It took me probably 10 gigs before I realised my playing didn’t need to be all about speed.
David: I think that was part of the problem, we just wanted to prove ourselves as who was going to be the alpha male, and we all constantly tried to outdo each other; the solo’s on each instrument kept trying to get harder and harder, it improved our playing, but definitely pushed us further apart at the time.

From here, how did you manage to turn things around from this skill boasting to actually being a band, which some of the current tracks could even be described as Chilled out, and that we’d want to feature here in Acid?
Jamie: We definitely reached a boiling point from a stressful type of music, look at Eddie Van Halen, that guy smokes a hundred a day for a reason, it was too much stress, and from here we knew we needed to almost fight against stress, and become a band which had variety and a better atmosphere.
Mike D: There definitely wasn’t a set day where we changed, I think it was a progressive change, literally, from clear cut 3 minute tracks, into a song where we could relax for a few minutes, and then jam for 6 minutes.

Once you where established as what you wanted, how did you re-promote yourself and finally take the band to where you are today, an unrecognisable image of what you would have been when you started out?
David: I don’t think any band excepts to come out looking as they went in, we certainly didn’t, and I think it helps us represent the music we’re now playing, we’ve progressed like a track we could write for the next album, or one after that, I except us to leave this industry probably completely different as to what we are today.

From this, how did this years tour get arranged, was it a mutual agreement between you?
Jamie: We knew it was that time, we’d been discussing it whilst the album was in production, and we all felt like the tracks where ready to become gig worthy, I was insecure at first that some of the tracks wouldn’t be suitable for gigs, if people had come to our previous gigs, but I’m convinced things went down better than ever
Mike D: (laughs) I never really saw a need for insecurities with music, its what we feel and its what we play, if people didn’t like the album, they wouldn’t have wanted to see it live

From here, where do you want to go, and what messages would you want to give to the fans?
Mike D: I want us just to keep where we are, and let the music take us wherever, and I want the listeners to know that without them, this really wouldn’t be possible.
Jamie: I couldn’t agree more, its listeners that have took us to where we can do this, and I feel that we’ve got the capabilities to take this wherever we want, which is really a great feeling, I’m confident about a future tour similar to the one we just did, but with newer material.
David: I’m looking forward to seeing the band on a dvd cover in a HMV somewhere, that’d be pretty awesome. (Here I will put the magazine logo to show this is the end of the article.)