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AGANKAST To Cover ATOMKRAFT

August 15, 2006

Former ATOMKRAFT guitarist Rob Matthew, whose current responsibilities include managing the young British metal band AGANKAST, has issued the following update:

"Twenty years ago ATOMKRAFT were four young lads from Newcastle. We rode on the coattails of our mates VENOM, gigging, writing and hanging out with them. In fact I am probably the only person to claim to have had VENOM do an impromptu gig in their bedroom... we were all still kids.

"Although VENOM were way superior to us back then, ATOMKRAFT still managed to hold our own, and we eventually began to give the American thrash invasion of Europe a run for their money in the mid-'80s.

"So what anyway has this to do with AGANKAST? Well, it has been said to me many times since the formation of AGANKAST of the similarity of the sound with ATOMKRAFT/AGANKAST and a legacy that seems to exist now.

"I had not given that much thought until it was kept being pointed out to me. And it's true, I guess. AGANKAST follows the DNA of ATOMKRAFT. AGANKAST are a young band... every member of '80s ATOMKRAFT is old enough to be AGANKAST's dads now... and that freaks me out. The guys are now all prepared for Bloodstock [festival in September] and they suggested to me that they would want to open up their set with ATOMKRAFT's classic 'Total Metal'. I said, 'Yes, go for it.' But that will be a strange one for me and im sure many old ATOMKRAFT fans in the audience on the night.

"I did not set out for things to be heading this way but it's like the spirit of ATOMKRAFT lives on now in 2006.... But I would love this band to do what we in ATOMKRAFT did not achieve in the 1980s... and that was to shove it back to the Americans big style (no offense)."

AGANKAST's new album, "Welcome to Insanitarium", is available for download at www.scotloads.co.uk.

AGANKAST is:

Allan Scot (24) - Vocals/Bass
Ciaran Wright (19) - Guitar
James Savage Animal (18) - Drums
Jimmy Manningham (18) - Guitar

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