0:35 mark.
Milligram is one of no less than three fantastic bands fronted by Jonah Jenkins (Only Living Witness). The first time I heard this song, it was on YouTube and cued up with footage of the Operation Castle nuclear weapons tests at the Bikini Atoll.
The music seemed to fit flawlessly with the images that I was seeing. Sailors huddled on the deck of their ships, a plane flying overhead readies its bomb bay. A brilliant flash of light and a massive mushroom cloud, the decimated target. A moment that would even until today, poison the environment and people of the Marshall Islands.
When this riff hits, it is that blast. That towering plume of smoke, that deafening explosion that can be heard for miles. It creeps into your ears like radioactive fallout, leaving you forever changed. This is a song that should have been cranked through the cabin of the Enola Gay, as it made its return flight after raining death on the city Hiroshima. It would have been an auditory revelation of the magnitude of the situation at hand. A eerie feeling of foreboding in the aftermath of annihilation.
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