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From Motorhead, through Anvil to Metallica--it seemed heavy metal couldn't get any more extreme without descending into outright silliness. Then came Birmingham's Napalm Death: wholly ungroomed and imageless, unashamedly political and so utterly unconcerned with daytime radioplay their songs were blasts of unholy noise lasting less than a minute. The radical DJ John Peel was, naturally, their main champion, and this collection takes in three sessions the band performed for him between 1987 and 1990, plus a 1996 effort for the Friday Rock Show. Nicely summing up their musical history, it begins with three tracks completed in a crazy 57 seconds, then gradually slows into the Black Sabbath-recalling grindcore they popularised later. Though the vocals lose humanity as Lee Dorrian's grunts and yelps are replaced by the deep growl of the seemingly Satan-mimicking Mark "Barney" Greenway, the instrumentations are unremittingly rough and profoundly heavy throughout.
--Dominic Wills
Album Details
2000 compilation for the influential British grindcore progenitors features 16 tracks. Includes three sessions recorded the influential DJ John Peel & four previously unreleased tracks, 'Glimpse Into The Genocide', 'Greed Killing', 'My Own Worst Enemy', & 'Anti-Body', recorded for the Friday Rock Show in 1996. Strange Fruit.