✦✦✧✧ How do Napalm Death make politically aware grindcore sound so ferocious yet so catchy?! These songs, mostly penned by bassist Shane Embury, lean more experimental and unpredictable than we’ve been getting from ND lately, which is great news. And great noise. See the rest here
Although I suppose we could come up with a definition of metal based on some combination of objective musical criteria (e.g. double-bass drumming, de-tuning, distortion, etc.) or some common sense standard like the Supreme Court’s definition of pornography (i.e. “you know it when you hear it”), I have a nagging suspicion that metal is best defined by the particular emotions it most commonly expresses. See the rest here
★☆☆☆ With this album, Napalm Death have reasserted their role as the honey badgers of the metal world. Call it an improbable three-way head-on collision between punk, indusrtial, and grindcore. The resulting carnage works better than you’d think, especially at high volume. It’s impressive, really! At the same time, I’d be very very surprised if I ever willingly listened to this again. See the rest here
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