Citizen Brain is the second album by thrash metal

Thrash metal

Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that is characterized usually by its fast tempo and aggression. Songs of the genre typically use fast percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work...

 band Gama Bomb

Gama Bomb

-Beginnings: 2002-2005:Gama Bomb formed in Newry 2002 and soon built up a loyal following in their native Ireland and the UK, which they consolidated with a rigorous touring schedule and frequent forays into self-released recording. The band first gained attention with their demo The Survival...

. It was released on June 9, 2008 in Europe and June 24, 2008 in the United States and Rest of the World by Earache Records

Earache Records

Earache Records is a heavy metal-oriented record label based in Nottingham, UK and New York, USA. It helped to pioneer extreme metal by releasing many of the earliest grindcore and death metal records in the period 1988-1994.-History:...

. A Bonus DVD featuring tour and studio footage was included in early pressings of the album.

Track listing

All tracks written by Gama Bomb, apart from "Bullet Belt " & "Space Invaders" (Music By Kevy Canavan, Lyrics by Gama Bomb) "Evil Voices" & "Thrashoholic" (Music by Gama Bomb/Kevy Canavan, Lyrics by Gama Bomb)

1. "Zombie Blood Nightmare" - 2:38
2. "Evil Voices" - 2:34
3. "Final Fight" - 2:48
4. "Time Crime" - 2:26
5. "Global Warning" - 2:29
6. "OCP" - 0:41
7. "Hammer Slammer" - 3:18
8. "Sentenced to Thrash" - 3:12
9. "Zombi Brew" - 2:29
10. "Hell Trucker" - 2:19
11. "Return of the Technodrome" - 2:19
12. "Thrashoholic" - 2:10
13. "In the Court of General Zod" - 2:47
14. "Space Invaders" - 2:50
15. "Bullet Belt" - 3:28

In-song references

Citizen Brain contains many subtle pop-culture references, with musical nods to cult favourites The A-Team

The A-Team

The A-Team is an American action adventure television series about a fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel who work as soldiers of fortune, while on the run from the Army after being branded as war criminals for a "crime they didn't commit". The A-Team was created by...

 (Final Fight), This Is Your Life

This Is Your Life

This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards from 1952 to 1961. In the show, the host surprises a guest, and proceeds to take them through their life in front of an audience including friends and family.Edwards...

 (Sentenced To Thrash), Mario Brothers, Tetris

Tetris

Tetris is a puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union. It was released on June 6, 1984, while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic...

 (Final Fight), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an American animated television series produced by Murakami-Wolf-Swenson. The pilot was shown during the week of December 28, 1987 in syndication as a five part miniseries and began its official run on October 1, 1988...

 (Return of the Technodrome), RoboCop

RoboCop

RoboCop is a 1987 American science fiction-action film directed by Paul Verhoeven. Set in a crime-ridden Detroit, Michigan in the near future, RoboCop centers on a police officer who is brutally murdered and subsequently re-created as a super-human cyborg known as "RoboCop"...

 (OCP) and Superman

Superman

Superman is a fictional comic book superhero appearing in publications by DC Comics, widely considered to be an American cultural icon. Created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian-born American artist Joe Shuster in 1932 while both were living in Cleveland, Ohio, and sold to Detective...

 (In The Court Of General Zod). There are also lyrical references to Commando

Commando (film)

Commando is a 1985 American action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Vernon Wells, Rae Dawn Chong, Alyssa Milano, Bill Duke, Dan Hedaya and James Olson. It was directed by Mark L...

, EC Comics

EC Comics

Entertaining Comics, more commonly known as EC Comics, was an American publisher of comic books specializing in horror fiction, crime fiction, satire, military fiction and science fiction from the 1940s through the mid-1950s, notably the Tales from the Crypt series...

, Ren And Stimpy, The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone is an American television anthology series created by Rod Serling. Each episode is a mixture of self-contained drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist...

and other thrash bands among many others.