UMUR "Disturbing the Noise" is the 3rd full-length studio album by Brazilian thrash metal act Attomica. The album was released through Cogumelo Records in 1991. Attomica had temporarily been a four-piece on "Limits of Insanity (1989)", with bassist André Rod also taking on the vocal duties on that album, but on "Disturbing the Noise", Attomica are back in a five-piece constellation again. André Rod solely concentrates on playing bass on this album and new lead vocalist is Fábio Moreira. There´s been a change on the guitarist post too as João Márcio Francis has replaced Pyda Rod as the band´s second guitarist. Besides André Rod, guitarist João Paulo Francis and drummer Mário Sanefuji are the usual suspects in the lineup.

With a different lead vocalist on each of the band´s first three albums, Attomica naturally hadn´t settled on a sound that they could say was their own. The debut features a savage blackened old school thrash metal assault, while "Limits of Insanity (1989)" was a more technically oriented thrash metal album with a very high pitched and monotone vocal style on top. On "Disturbing the Noise" the sound has changed again, and this time around the music is reminiscent of the more aggressive and fast-paced 80s Slayer and especially mid-80s Dark Angel. It´s safe to say that by 1991 that wasn´t exactly the most original thing to play, but Attomica are convincing and deliver their music with both decent skill and passion.

New lead vocalist Fábio Moreira is a pretty standard raw type thrash metal singer with a staccato delivery. he is nothing out of the ordinary, but he gets the job done and compared to the monotone and brain meltingly high pitched vocals by André Rod, he is a 100% upgrade to Attomica´s music. The instrumental performances are raw, unpolished, and reasonably skillfully delivered. Pounding, fast, and powerful drumming, fast-paced thrashy riffing, and some blistering screaming atonal solos, are some of the ingredients in the band´s music. The sound production is raw and powerful and suits the band´s music perfectly.

After the rather weak "Limits of Insanity (1989)", I didn´t have high expectations to the quality of "Disturbing the Noise", but Attomica pull it off pretty great on this one, delivering a quality raw and aggressive thrash metal album and a 3.5 star (70%) rating is deserved.

UMUR "Limits of Insanity" is the 2nd full-length studio album by Brazilian thrash metal act Attomica. The album was released through Cogumelo Records in April 1989. There´s been one lineup change since the 1987 self-titled debut album as bassist André Rod has taken over the lead vocals in addition to playing bass and Laerte "Animal" Perr who sang on the debut album is out of the band.

The change on the lead vocalist spot has a major impact on the band´s sound. While the debut album was a slightly blackened and very raw and old school sounding thrash metal release, the music on "Limits of Insanity" is slightly more technical and features a little bit of a power metal influence because of André Rod´s singing style. He has a very high pitched vocal style, but even though he is more a singer than a barking raw staccato delivering thrash metal vocalist, his vocal lines are strangely lacking melody and they are ultimately rather monotone. His voice is of the kind that pierce my skull and makes my ears bleed, and it´s actually a bit of a trial listening to him sing for the duration of "Limits of Insanity". He is definitely in the catagory of singers that are an aquired taste.

The instrumental part of the music doesn´t help him shine either. It´s pretty standard thrash metal played by average musicians, packed in a thin and pretty poor sounding production. Although the debut album wasn´t without flaws, it had that raw old school charm to it, that can save most standard thrash metal releases from becoming completely redundant, but "Limits of Insanity" doesn´t possess that charm and ultimately comes off as a very mediocre thrash metal release with monotone high pitched vocals. If you can endure the vocals, the album might appeal a bit more to you than it does to me, but as it is now I can´t rate it higher than a 2.5 star (50%) rating.

UMUR "Attomica" is the self-titled debut full-length studio album by Brazilian thrash metal act Attomica. The album was released through Equinox Discos in 1987. It was reissued and remastered on CD by Kill Again Records in 2006. The reissue features four bonues tracks.

The music on the album is filthy, raw and energetic thrash metal. Because of the high pitched snarling vocals I´ll even dare call this a blackened thrash metal release. The sound production is pretty lo-fi, noisy and distorted and it would be a stretch to call it professional sounding. It does however suit the extremely raw nature of the music very well. Other than "Lost Time" which is an instrumental track, the rest of the 7 tracks on the 37:00 minutes long album, are all aggressive blackened thrash metal tracks, delivered with fierce conviction and sometimes in a very fast pace too. It might not technically be blast beats, but considering that this album was released in 1987, the drumming is occasionally pretty fast-paced.

So if you like them as raw as they come, "Attomica" might by your poison. The musicianship could have been on a higher level, the sound production could certainly have sounded more professional and the songwriting is at times not of the highest quality either, but damn this album still possesses a rare "raw to the bone" type charm... a 3 star (60%) rating is warranted.