Thursday, January 22, 2009
Cream Brutally Anti-Slave: No Sympathy from Napalm Death
Posted by Matt Sullivan on Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 9:29 PM
Napalm Death have a new album coming out. It's called Time Waits for No Slave, comes out on Feb. 10 in the U.S. and is streamable on their MySpace page. From what I've heard so far, it ain't bad, but hopefully this means a U.S. tour is in the works. I was in the dark when they played at the Muse over two years ago. Even worse, I claimed on this blog that they hadn't been good for a very long time. The band has existed for 28 years, and this is their 13th album. Their '90s output was total nu-metal crap, so I kinda lost track . Little did I know they had mounted a massive return to form early this century. Sorry, Napalm Death.
At the risk of seeming self-important, here's something I wrote for the Kansas City Pitch several months ago and why it should be a big deal if they decide to come back to Nashville:
In 1981, four gutter-punk kids from Birmingham, England, instigated the seemingly endless splintering of metal subgenres in forging the sound that would later be dubbed "grindcore." Playing hardcore punk at impossibly breakneck speeds, Napalm Death's revolving-door lineup married punk's pissed-off, anarchic aesthetic to the intensity of extreme metal. As the forefathers of the genre, the band -- with its 1987 debut, Scum -- introduced one of grindcore's trademarks: concision. With songs rarely cracking the one-minute mark (including the infamous, one-second-long "You Suffer"), the first record in the Napalm catalog chronicles the creativity of a group of kids who were long on ideas and short on patience. 27 years later, Napalm is still cranking out brutal grindcore, albeit with much more nuance and complexity than the bands that have been replicating the riffs from Scum for the past two decades.
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