Napalm Death album update

Earlier this year we heard news that Napalm Death were hitting the studio to work on their new record and were getting the drum track down. As we meet October we’ve yet to hear the sweet sounds of grindcore.

Their new song “Dear Slum Landlord” played at Roadburn 2014 tied us over but we want more! Much to our pleasings, the band has released a statement giving us an update on where they stand:

“When we say that we’ve been working on the album recording for nearly a year, people might thinking that this all sounds a bit too extravagant for grindcore-type behaviour. The full story is though that we’ve been recording it in segments to try and achieve varying types of sonic assault. There is a belief in certain quarters that you can only do so much with our particularly noisy strain of music. We think otherwise, so as well as a few stylistic quirks on the album (that are sometimes happy accidents), generally it’s rawer, perhaps a little looser and of course always dense, nasty and, hopefully, invigorating too. Certainly not more polished – yuk!

Russ Russell helped us to give lots of people headaches down the years. He doesn’t mind us adopting certain, erm, techniques with studio equipment that most producer-engineers would find somewhat distasteful. So back we went again with Russ to Parlour Studios in the comparatively scene surroundings of Northamptonshire to do damage. There’s possibly some of the fastest and spazziest stuff we’ve ever done and, on the other end of the scale, some of the weirdest, most oppressive and adventurous no-wave-type stuff too.

Some song titles for you to chew on: ‘Copulating Snakes’, ‘Dear Slum Landlord’ (aired at Roadburn 2014), and ‘What is Past Is Prologue ’, ‘Stunt Your Growth. We’re nearly finished – we promise!”

From that very confusing update the words that stuck out were “spazziest” and “distasteful”. Not sure whether we should be concerned or excited. Either way, we can look out for a Napalm Death album release soon...ish.


As always, stay heavy.

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