Mark Greenway

Mark "Barney" Greenway

Mark "Barney" Greenway (born July 13, 1969 in Birmingham , England ) is a British rock musician and singer of the grindcore / death metal band Napalm Death .

biography

Greenway was born in Great Barr, a suburb of Birmingham , in 1969 . He and his brother reported a happy childhood until he moved away from home at the age of 17.

He began his musical career in 1988 with the English death metal band Benediction . He released an album with Benediction before switching to Napalm Death , where he is still active as a singer today. From 1995 Greenway was also the singer of the grindcore band Extreme Noise Terror , with whom he also released an album, before he left the band in 1997. In 1998 he founded the band Nothing but Comtempt with Carl Stokes von Cancer , with which he did not make any publications.

He sang in a live performance with the progressive metal band Dream Theater . At times Greenway writes record reviews for Kerrang magazine ! and rock hard .

Greenway's trademark is deep guttural singing . In the late 1980s he was one of the singers who developed the style of early representatives of the so-called Death-Grunt by adding aggressive elements and an even lower pitch , along with the earlier Napalm Death singers Nicholas Bullen and Lee Dorrian .

person

Mark Greenway has been a vegetarian since he was 14 and supports the animal welfare organization PETA . He is considered to be politically left-wing and is involved in voluntary work. a. in the British Musicians Union. In interviews, Greenway expresses himself in detail about his political stance and his socially critical texts. B. in the cover version of Nazi Punks Fuck Off by the band Dead Kennedys , which he recorded with his band Napalm Death .

Greenway is a fan of the Aston Villa football club .

He got his nickname "Barney" (after the comic character of the same name from the Flintstones series ) from the drummer of the English crustcore band Doom , because Greenway was a bit uncoordinated when he was drunk and so reminded of the clumsy man from the comic series.

He gives Kam Lee from Death (later Massacre ) as an important influence .

Discography

Benediction

• 1989 The Dreams You Dread (Demo)
• 1990 Confess All Goodness (split EP with Pungent Stench )
• 1990 Subconscious Terror

Napalm Death

• 1990 Suffer the Children (EP)
• 1990 Live at the ICA in London (live)
• 1990 Harmony Corruption
• 1992 Death by manipulation
• 1992 Utopia Banished
• 1992 The World Keeps Turning (EP)
• 1994 Fear, Emptiness, Despair
• 1995 Greed Killing (EP)
• 1996 Diatribes
• 1996 Cursed to Tour (split CD with At the Gates )
• 1997 Inside the Torn Apart
• 1998 Bootlegged in Japan (Live)
• 1998 Words from the Exit Wound
• 1999 Leaders Not Followers (EP)
• 2000 Enemy of the Music Business
• 2002 Order of the Leech
• 2003 Punishment in Capitals (Live)
• 2004 Leaders Not Followers II
• 2005 The Code Is Red ... Long Live the Code
• 2006 Smear Campaign
• 2009 Time Waits for No Slave
• 2012 Utilitarian
• 2015 Apex Predator - Easy Meat

Extreme noise terror

• 1997 Damage 381

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In the chat box: Barney Greenway . In: Rock Hard . No. 125 .
2. ↑ Death Grunt. (No longer available online.) Spiritus-Temporis.com, archived from the original on April 5, 2012 ; accessed on January 31, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Out There: Napalm Death. PETA Online, accessed January 28, 2009 . 
4. ↑ Alexander Eitner: Interview with Barney, Frank & John from Napalm Death, Suffocation & Warbringer. Metalnews.de, May 30, 2008, accessed January 28, 2009 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Jan Jaedike: A fantastic feeling of freedom. Interview with Mark Greenway . In: RockHard magazine . No. 261 , p. 39 .
6. ↑ Napalm Death: Interview with Mark Greenway. Absolutmetal Online Metal Zine, February 7, 2003, accessed January 31, 2009 .