Author: Napalm Death

Format: Import

Release Date: 17-10-2000

Details: Amazon.ca From Motorhead, through Anvil to Metallica--it seemed heavy metal couldn't get any more extreme without descending into outright silliness. Then came Birmingham's Napalm Death: wholly ungroomed and imageless, unashamedly political and so utterly unconcerned with daytime radioplay their songs were blasts of unholy noise lasting less than a minute. The radical DJ John Peel was, naturally, their main champion, and this collection takes in three sessions the band performed for him between 1987 and 1990, plus a 1996 effort for the Friday Rock Show. Nicely summing up their musical history, it begins with three tracks completed in a crazy 57 seconds, then gradually slows into the Black Sabbath-recalling grindcore they popularised later. Though the vocals lose humanity as Lee Dorrian's grunts and yelps are replaced by the deep growl of the seemingly Satan-mimicking Mark "Barney" Greenway, the instrumentations are unremittingly rough and profoundly heavy throughout. --Dominic Wills

UPC: 605563609129

EAN: 0605563609129

Languages: english

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: New