Napalm Death
Words From the Exit Wound

THE REVIEW

Sixth and final album of the nineties for the band from Birmingham.

And as always, they hit hard, very hard; without hesitation. A defined, recognizable sound.

Mark is back in the ranks after the very brief stint as singer for Extreme Noise Terror; and he's angrier than ever with his heavy growl.

The production and mixing by Colin Richardson manage to highlight all the instruments; although I would have preferred, particularly referring to the guitars, a more "closed", suffocating, raw sound.

They look to the past and project into the future; a sequence of ear-splitting tracks.

The opener "The Infiltraitor" remains, even today, one of their best album starts; a track of immense power containing Death Metal elements that collide with frenzied Hardcore openings. As I already wrote in a recent listening, one of those tracks capable of unleashing a catastrophic "moshpit" near the stage at one of their concerts; experienced many times on my battered skin: guaranteed also by DeMa for me.

The Napalm are the recognized godfathers of Grindcore; and then they spit in our face with the two minutes of total sonic apocalypse of "Ulterior Exterior": a track that wouldn’t look out of place compared to their first two epic works of the eighties, Scum and From Enslavement to Obliteration. The pachydermic movements of "Next of Kin to Chaos", the industrial noises in the first minute of the subsequent "Trio-Degradable / Affixed by Disconcern", the uncontrollable fury of "Thrown Down a Rope".

Not a top-rated work; but as always, maximum respect and veneration, at least from me, towards this institution of musical extremism... CLEANSE IMPURE...

Diabolos Rising 666.