Mad About Rock

  Commanding heavyweights ATARKA are poised to drop their striking new EP, The Mountain, out Friday 14th April. The band have also set loose their furious new single and video, The Nethermost Blight. Watch the video, here - https://youtu.be/HIfRIvAetng Hailing from Birmingham, ATARKA were originally conceived in 2018 and initially comprised of Daniel McCarthy (guitar), Adam Bayliss (bass), Jamie Smith (vocals), Alex Dutton (guitar), and Phil Sheldon (drums). Following the completion of the new record, Daniel McCarthy left the band for new horizons, but this opened the door for Haydn Edwards to step up and put his stamp on the bands' live endeavors. Dispatching a sound that is massively immersing, varied, and undeniably imposing, ATARKA throw down weighty slabs of groove-tinged crushing metal that shifts, twists and delivers every step of the way. The burly riff beasts set loose their debut album, Sleeping Giant, in 2020, and the record put the monstrous quintet on the map by dra...