WHAT’S SO FUNNY ABOUT PEACE, LOVE, AND NAPALM DEATH?
Friday, July 25th, 2008 at 4:20pm by Axl Rosenberg
Two Napalm Death stories in as many days! Yowza!
So the Gods of Grind have been experiencing something of a renaissance with their excellent last two albums, The Code is Red… Long Live the Code and Smear Campaign; now the extreme metal pioneers are back in the studio working on an album about love, beauty, and helping your fellow man.
Wait… what?!?
In a statement, vocalist Barney Greenway explains:
“[The album] will be intense, naturally, and like always we’ll be looking to move things along a notch production-wise and stylistically. Conceptually, it will, generally speaking, be a tale of analyzing life and stripping it back to the point where I’m asking the question: why are we killing ourselves to get ahead and not appreciating the real simplistic, beautiful things around us? If that sounds hippy-ish, I don’t care, ha ha.”
Of course, knowing Napalm Death, I’m sure they’ll talk about appreciate the real simplistic, beautiful things around them in the angriest possible way imaginable. I mean, this band ain’t gonna turn around and record “Here Comes the Sun” or anything like that.
In case you haven’t been keeping up with how awesome the last couple of Napalm Death albums were, here’s the band’s video for “When All is Said and Done” from Smear Campaign. I’m fairly certain that this is the most melodic song on the album.
-AR
Only one way to describe this band. NAPALM FUCKING DEATH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Here Comes the Sun” is an awesome song.
Barney is like the nicest dude ever. Seriously.
Barney fucking owns. He was at the Birmingham 36 Crazyfists gig last month. In fact he’s going to sing on their next album. Cant wait to hear this!
Quite a departure from their more death metal phase:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_al5ROynGbo&feature=related
Really pussy stuff, to be honest. Then again, Napalm Death have tended to “go with the times”, so why should these times be any different? They certainly aren’t playing grindcore anymore.
man napalm death’s new single from this record is going to be “here comes the sun…..bleeding from the sky”
Saw Goatwhore and Cattle Decapitation open up for Napalm in Nashville a few years back, great show, Napalm sounded great!
too bad they dont sound much better than any of the many bands that are ripping them off.
What do I win for noticing this was posted at 4:20?