MetalProgressive Rock
Tonzonen Records · 23 October 2026
Leipzig trio Godzilla In The Kitchen sing for the first time on “Termination Sequence”, their third album, released by Tonzonen Records on 23 October. According to the band’s notes, the shift started in 2024, when they’d lost their drummer and Thiago Presto took over the stool, who’d left Rio de Janeiro for Leipzig in 2019. Until then an instrumental rock band with progressive and psychedelic roots, the group now bills itself as alternative metal, with lyrics that take on current events.
The push to sing, the notes explain, came from Andy Schmidt of Disillusion, who heard the 2024 demos and told them: “Start singing already.” “We sound much heavier and more aggressive than before,” says Patzschke now. Schmidt is credited as co-arranger. The line-up is Simon Ulm on vocals and bass, Eric Patzschke on guitar and, on drums, Thiago da Silva Amaral, as Presto appears in the credits. All three share the production credit; recording is by Ulm and Erik Dietrich, mixing by Oliver Hannapel and mastering by Carl Saff.
It opens with “Nothing For None” and closes on the title track: eight songs, just over 41 minutes, out digitally, on digipak CD and on vinyl limited to 700 copies. Before it came the self-titled 2015 debut and “Exodus”, released on 28 October 2022 with Felix Rambach still on drums. That same year, the band point out, they played Wacken Open Air.
Text by Roger Estivill