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Napalm Death

Musical Group
Forfans of extreme metal, grindcore, hardcore punk and politically charged heavy music
47 Reviews 12 Definitions 23 Charts
Grindcore Death Metal Old School Hardcore

The Profile

British grindcore band from Birmingham, pioneers of grindcore and active since the early 1980s.

Renowned for extreme speed, abrasive production and politically charged lyrics. Reviews repeatedly mention core members Mark "Barney" Greenway (vocals), Shane Embury (bass), Mitch Harris (guitar), Danny Herrera (drums) and earlier contributors Nicholas Bullen, Mick Harris, Jesse Pintado, Lee Dorrian and Bill Steer.

Napalm Death are presented across dozens of DeBaser reviews as the founding figures of grindcore and persistent purveyors of extreme music. Critics emphasize their ferocity, political lyrics, and continual experimentation (death metal, industrial, noise). Key albums cited repeatedly include Scum, From Enslavement to Obliteration and Utopia Banished. Reviews range from ecstatic fandom to dismissive hostility, but overall celebrate the band's influence and longevity.

Notable Quotes

❝ "Scum", as we know, is now history, a work that shines more for its conceptual significance than for its intrinsic content, a work that, for better or worse, marked a point of rupture and no return in the history of music as a whole.
❝ The fathers of Grindcore are back; once again to confirm their absolute dominance... Coded Smears and More Uncommon Slurs... Ad Maiora.
❝ "You Suffer But Why" screams Nicholas Bullen with his cavernous growl.
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