Napalm Death
| Napalm Death | |
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 Napalm Death in Tokyo, 2019 |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Grindcore , Death Metal , Crust Punk (formerly) |
| founding | 1981 |
| Website | http://www.napalmdeath.org/ |
| Founding members | |
| Nicholas "Nik" Bullen (until 1987) | |
| Miles "The Rat" Ratledge (until 1985) | |
| Current occupation | |
singing |
Mark "Barney" Greenway (1989–1996, since 1997) |
bass |
Shane Embury (since 1987) |
| Mitch Harris (since 1990) | |
Drums |
Danny Herrera (since 1991) |
| former members | |
guitar |
Justin Broadrick (1985-1987) |
Drums |
Mick Harris (1985-1991) |
bass |
James "Jimmy" Whiteley (1986-1987) |
singing |
Lee Dorrian (1987-1989) |
guitar |
Bill Steer (1987-1989) |
guitar |
Frank Healey (1987) |
singing |
Phil Vane (1996–1997; † 2011) |
guitar |
Jesse Pintado (1989-2004; † 2006) |
Napalm Death is a British crust punk , grindcore and death metal band from Birmingham , which was founded in 1981 and was instrumental in the development of extreme metal .
history
Bassist Nicholas (Nik) Bullen formed the band in 1981 at the age of 13. Bands like Discharge , Chaos UK and Disorder had a decisive influence on the music of the early years . After various line-up changes , the band recorded the A-side of their debut album Scum in 1986 with the line-up of Nik Bullen (bass, vocals), Justin Broadrick (guitar) and Mick Harris (drums) . All pieces for this session were written by the duo Bullen / Broadrick, who left the band after the recordings. Broadrick founded Godflesh , and Bullen went to college. At the beginning of 1987 Lee Dorrian (vocals), Jim Whiteley (bass) and Bill Steer (guitar) were added, so there was not a single founding member in the band. The quartet recorded the B-side of their debut album in 1987, which was released on Earache Records in late 1987 . Shane Embury , who initially worked as a roadie for the band and replaced Jim Whiteley on bass from 1988, was already present at the 1987 recordings . With this line-up, the band recorded From Enslavement to Obliteration in 1988 , which rose to number 1 on the UK indie charts .
In 1989, Bill Steer left the band to concentrate on his second band, Carcass . Due to musical differences, Lee Dorrian left a little later and founded the doom metal band Cathedral . A replacement was found with Barney Greenway (vocals, ex- Benediction ) and the American Jesse Pintado (guitar, ex- Terrorizer ). In the same year Napalm Death took part in the legendary Peel Sessions of radio presenter John Peel .
The debut album Scum and the successor From Enslavement to Obliteration each contain over 25 tracks with a playing time of just over 30 minutes. On Scum is the title You Suffer , which only lasts a second. Both albums contain fast-paced grindcore that alternates with thrash metal and hardcore punk riffs. The lyrics are all political in nature.
At the beginning of 1990, another American followed, Mitch Harris (ex- Righteous Pigs ). Marked by these rapid line-up changes, the band recorded Harmony Corruption in 1990 at the Morrisound studio in Tampa , which specializes in death metal . Produced by Scott Burns , the album was very death-metal- heavy and received a mixed response. A second peel session followed . Due to the massive criticism of the fans of the change in style that began with Harmony Corruption , the band recorded the EP Mass Appeal Madness in 1991 , which is stylistically more oriented towards Grindcore.
Drummer Mick Harris left Napalm Death in 1992 and then devoted himself to bands like Naked City and Scorn . His job was taken over by the hitherto largely unknown Danny Herrera. In the same year Napalm published Death Utopia Banished , which continued the style correction started with Mass Appeal Madness . On the following albums, Fear, Emptiness, Despair and Diatribes , the band was open to small musical experiments. They almost completely dispensed with the typical Grindcore speed, which gave them the opportunity to incorporate more rhythmic elements and thus develop new fan groups. In 1995 singer Barney Greenway left the band at short notice and joined Extreme Noise Terror . For a short time their former singer Phil Vane took over the vocals for Napalm Death. But after a short time Greenway returned to the band and the recordings for Inside the Torn Apart could be completed. 1996 Napalm Death last appeared for the BBC on the Friday Rock Show . These recordings were released in 2000 along with the tracks from the John Peel Show under the name The Complete Radio One Sessions .
Since Inside the Torn Apart , the band's line-up has remained relatively constant and Napalm Death released new albums at regular intervals. In 2004 Jesse Pintado left the band due to illness and died in 2006 of complications from a diabetic coma . The band stopped playing the second guitar and continued, as in the early days, with only one guitar.
With Leaders Not Followers (1999) and Leaders Not Followers Part 2 (2004) Napalm Death released two records with cover versions of their musical role models. Among other things, they covered Nazi punks Fuck Off by the Dead Kennedys , which has a permanent place in the setlist at concerts to this day . Musicians who were friends, including Jello Biafra and Jeff Walker , often played on their later albums .
meaning
The band is often mistakenly referred to as the inventor of grindcore . However, she herself was significantly influenced by Repulsion , whose 1986 demo Slaughter of the Innocent was only released posthumously as an LP in 1989 under the title Horrified - two years after Scum . The debut work Scum was groundbreaking in 1987 in terms of brutality and speed. During the 1990s, Napalm Death became musically more moderate and turned to death metal . A considerable number of Death Metal / Grindcore classics come from her pen, such as Mass Appeal Madness , Greed Killing , Suffer The Children , Twist the Knife (Slowly) (which was also used in the movie Mortal Kombat ) or just that just over a second long You Suffer . Napalm Death's lyrics are socially critical and reflect the left-wing attitude of the band.
Discography
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Demos
- 1982: Halloween
- 1982: And, Like Sheep, We Have All Gone Astray
- 1982: Punk Is a Rotting Corpse
- 1983: Kak
- 1983: Unpopular Yawns of Middle Class Warfare
- 1985: Hatred Surge
- 1986: From Enslavement to Obliteration
Studio albums
- 1987: Scum
- 1988: From Enslavement to Obliteration
- 1990: Harmony Corruption
- 1992: Utopia Banished
- 1994: Fear, Emptiness, Despair
- 1996: Diatribes
- 1997: Inside the Torn Apart
- 1998: Words from the Exit Wound
- 2000: Enemy of the Music Business
- 2002: Order of the Leech
- 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
Live albums
- 1989: Live EP
- 1990: Live at the ICA in London
- 1998: Bootlegged in Japan
- 2003: Punishment in Capitals
- 2019: Live at Rock City
Other publications
- 1988: The Curse (EP)
- 1989: Napalm Death / SOB Split 7 "Flexi (split album)
- 1989: Mentally Murdered (EP)
- 1989: The Peel Sessions (compilation)
- 1990: Suffer the Children (EP)
- 1991: Mass Appeal Madness (12 ", LP)
- 1992: Death by Manipulation (Compilation)
- 1992: The World Keeps Turning (EP)
- 1994: Hung (EP)
- 1995: Greed Killing (EP)
- 1996: Cursed to Tour - Split CD together with At the Gates
- 1996: In Tongues We Speak (split CD with Coalesce)
- 1997: Breed to Breathe (EP)
- 1999: Leaders Not Followers (EP)
- 2003: Noise for the Music's Sake (Best-of)
- 2005: Tsunami Benefit ( Tsunami -Benefiz-Split-CD with Heaven Shall Burn and The Haunted )
- 2012: Converge / Napalm Death (split CD with Converge )
- 2018: Coded Smears And More Uncommon Slurs
- 2020: Logic Ravaged by Brute Force (EP)
swell
- ↑ a b Jan Jaedike: Napalm Death: That's how it used to be . In: Rock Hard . No. 263 .
- ↑ Barry Lazell: Indie Hits 1980-1989 . Cherry Red Books, London 1997, ISBN 978-0-9517206-9-1 , pp. 157 .
- ↑ a b c d e Holger Stratmann (Ed.): RockHard Enzyklopädie . 700 of the most interesting rock bands from the last 30 years. Rock Hard Verlag, Dortmund 1998, ISBN 3-9805171-0-1 , p. 272 .
- ↑ Chart sources: Germany - Switzerland - Great Britain - France - Finland
