Gama Bomb is a Thrash Metal band hailing from Newry, Ireland; founded in 2002 by vocalist Philly Byrne, bassist Joe McGuigan and former guitarist Luke Graham. They started off with releasing their first demo The Survival Option and single The Fatal Mission in 2002 and 2003 respectively. After being signed to Witches Brew, they released their first album, Survival of the Fastest, in 2005 before joining Earache in 2007 alongside Evile, Municipal Waste, Bonded By Blood and many others as a part of the second wave of Thrash Metal. With Earache came 2008's Citizen Brain and 2009's Tales From The Grave In Space, before leaving the label for AFM Records. They released The Terror Tapes in late April/early May of 2013. Their 5th full-length album, Untouchable Glory released in October 30, 2015.
Gama Bomb shows examples of:
- Audience Participation Song: "I killed Bob Morton 'cause he made a mistake - DICK JONES! DICK JONES!"
- Cluster F-Bomb:
- Shitting Yourself to Live.
- Guilty aaaaaaaaaaas...note
- Digital Piracy Is Okay: Emphasized during the release of Tales From The Grave In Space, which was released for free.
- Everything's Deader with Zombies: Count how many songs the band has on zombies.
- Heavy Meta: A ton. Main offenders go to "Sentenced To Thrash" and "Bullet Belt".
- Hollywood Satanism: Parodied in "Lords of the Hellfire Club" and especially the video, which is a sendup of both later-era Hammer Horror and the 1960s era of Anton LaVey and the Black House.
- Homage: OCP, Final Fight, Space Invaders, In The Court of General Zod, Return To The Technodrome... the list goes on.note
- Horrible History Metal: "Time Crime" and "Mussolini Mosh".
- Kneel Before Zod: Trope is mentioned IN NAME in "In The Court Of General Zod".
- Metal Scream: Before the surgery, Philly Byrne was a near master of Type 4. They were almost entirely absent on Untouchable Glory, came back again on Speed Between the Lines and they're back in full force as of Sea Savage.
- Re-release the Song: "Bullet Belt", from 2005's Survival of the Fastest to 2008's Citizen Brain.
- Shout-Out: In multiple songs.
- Special Guest: James Stewart tracked session drums on Sea Savage.
- Spell My Name With An S: Gama Bomb is spelt with one "m".
- Video Full of Film Clips: The video for "Ninja Untouchables / Untouchable Glory" is composed of clips from various martial arts films.