Napalm Death - Apex Predator - Easy Meat [2015]

Napalm Death are a grindcore band formed in Birmingham, England in 1981. While none of its original members remain in the group, the lineup of vocalist Mark "Barney" Greenway, bassist Shane Embury, guitarist Mitch Harris and drummer Danny Herrera has remained consistent for most of the band's career.


Napalm Death are credited with defining the grindcore genre by incorporating elements of hardcore punk and death metal, using a noise-filled sound that uses heavily distorted, down-tuned guitars, grinding overdrive bass, high speed tempo, blast beats, and vocals which consist of incomprehensible growls, or high-pitched shrieks, extremely short songs, fast tempos, deep guttural vocals and sociopolitical lyrics. The band's debut album Scum, released in 1987 by Earache Records, proved substantially influential throughout the global metal community.


Napalm Death have released fifteen studio albums and are listed by Nielsen SoundScan as the seventh best-selling death metal band in the United States.







In October 2014, Napalm Death made a press release about the ongoing work on the upcoming album, revealing details of the recording status and some song titles. In the press release vocalist Mark Greenway mitigated concerns about the duration of the album recordings: "The full story is though that we've been recording it in segments to try and achieve varying types of sonic assault."


Having just wrapped up a tour through Japan, UK Grindcore pioneers NAPALM DEATH are now launching the cover artwork and the tracklisting for their upcoming 15th studio album. Entitled "Apex Predator - Easy Meat", the album will be released on January 26th, 2015 in Europe and January 27th, 2015 in North America via Century Media Records.


The album's striking artwork, which can be seen above, was created by Danish designer Frode Sylthe / Friktion.com, who has previously worked on NAPALM DEATH's latest album "Utilitarian" as well as with bands such as At The Gates, Totalt J?a M??r, The Haunted or Burst. NAPALM DEATH checked in to comment about the artwork as follows:



Quote:
"There are many meanings that you could grab from the new album artwork, I think. But one is the representation of how our natural and most basic needs for happiness and communication are being stripped away by materialism and pre-packaged garbage - crap that we don't need, filtered to us through the media via the megacorporations with the goal to maintain the bloated bottom line of profit. It's all just stuff that will be obsolete in 6 months time. And behind the scenes of course, modern day slavery is alive, well and obscured by this facade. It's all an exercise in deceit to shower us with fake fulfilment, while the poor and underprivileged fall further by the wayside". - Shane Embury / NAPALM DEATH










Quote:
"Across the albums, we have had some very complex and interconnected artwork. This time we wanted to keep it more simple - strip it down perhaps to a single image that would sharpen the focus. I loved the idea of the supermarket-style packaging as soon as I saw it, as when you go into one of those places with nourishment in mind and you're greeted with some miserable, artificially-enhanced foodstuff contained in a bleak little receptacle of industrial plastics, it doesn't exactly inspire you. To then fill that plastic tray with the dregs of meat production, well, that is the 'easy meat' in the title - representing the people who suffer for burgeoning consumption degraded and dumped in the most pitiful way". - Mark 'Barney' Greenway / NAPALM DEATH






Line-Up:
Shane Embury – bass (1987–present)
Mark "Barney" Greenway – vocals (1989–1996, 1997–present)
Mitch Harris – guitar, backing vocals (1990–present)
Danny Herrera – drums (1991–present)




Discography:
1982 Punk Is A Rotting Corpse [Demo]
1985 Hatred Surge [Demo]
1986 From Enslavement to Obliteration [Demo]
1987 Scum
1988 From Enslavement To Obliteration
1988 The Curse [EP]
1989 Mentally Murdered [EP]
1989 Napalm Death & Electro Hippies
1989 Napalm Death & S.O.B
1990 From Enslavement To Obliteration + Scum
1990 Harmony Corruption
1991 Mass Appeal Madness [EP]
1992 Death By Manipulation
1992 Live Corruption
1992 The World Keeps Turning [EP]
1992 Utopia Banished
1993 Nazi Punks Fuck Off [EP]
1993 The Peel Sessions
1994 Fear, Emptiness, Despair
1994 Hung [EP]
1995 Greed Killing [EP]
1996 Diatribes
1996 Napalm Death & At The Gates - Cursed To Tour
1997 Breed To Breathe [EP]
1997 Inside The Torn Apart
1997 Napalm Death & Coalesce - In Tongues We Speak
1998 Bootlegged In Japan
1998 Words From The Exit Wound
1999 Leaders Not Followers [EP]
2000 Enemy Of The Music Business
2000 The Complete Radio One Sessions
2002 Order Of The Leech
2002 The Leech Sampler [EP]
2003 Noise For Music's Sake
2003 Punishment In Capitals
2004 Leaders Not Followers, Part. 2
2005 Napalm Death & The Haunted & Heaven Shall Burn - Tsunami Benefit
2005 The Code Is Red...Long Live The Code
2006 Smear Campaign
2009 Time Waits For No Slave
2012 Utilitarian




Playlist:
01. Apex Predator - Easy Meat
02. Smash A Single Digit
03. Metaphorically Screw You
04. How The Years Condemn
05. Stubborn Stains
06. Timeless Flogging
07. Dear Slum Landlord...
08. Cesspits
09. Bloodless Coup
10. Beyond The Pale
11. Stunt Your Growth
12. Hierarchies
13. One-Eyed
14. Adversarial / Copulating Snakes



Info:
Artist: Napalm Death
Album: Apex Predator - Easy Meat
Genre: Grindcore
Subgenre: Death Metal
Country Of Origin: United Kingdom
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Audio codec: MP3
Riptype: Web-Rip
Bitrate: CBR 320kbps
Size: 109.80 MB
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Genre: Grindcore
Subgenre: Death Metal
Bitrate: 320 k
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