Artist: Nuclear Assault
Venue: Brooklyn Music Terminal (Brooklyn)
Opener: unsigned
Date: 8/26/2005
Label: SPV Records

One of the things I intend to do a little more as the main force behind my own web based magazine, is to open myself up to bands that I never really followed or had a strong level of interest in over the years. Let’s face it, you cannot like everything or find time to see all that is going on around you in the music scene. My chance to do this would come when Nuclear Assault would play at the BMT Club which is also called the Brooklyn Music Terminal. This was my second time here and I was hoping that the slight issues with the space would keep being worked out. Friends of mine loved Nuclear Assault back in the day, but they were never my fancy. To prove that Thrash Metal has not died the guys in the Legendary Nuclear Assault have returned to let you know in the only manner that they know how. On this second visit to the venue in about a one week time period I had to say that this was the perfect venue for the group. In their heyday they were often mainstays at the original L’Amour and most of the guys were neighborhood musicians. Nuclear Assault would be promoting and showcasing some new material from their upcoming release “Third World Genocide” which comes to us courtesy of SPV Records and this will be the bands first release in over 10 years. I admitted a little bit of surprise in the fact that Anthony Bramante (the bands original guitarist) had not come back by this time. I felt that with so many bands reuniting and doing recordings and touring it made me almost expect to see it happen. On “Third World Genocide” guitarist Eric Burke handles the shredding but at this show we would have Karl Cochran handling the duties. Karl is no stranger to performance and has played with Ace Frehley and Joe Lynn Turner. He was excellent at pulling off all of the riffs with relative ease.
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