Thirty years ago, Birmingham’s Napalm Death invented ‘grindcore’, and initiated a dialogue between hardcore anarcho-punk, extreme metal, and the experimental jazz crew. Without them, almost nothing your surly weed-eyed nephew nods out to at weekends would exist.
Today, behind an ersatz protest punk sleeve, a long serving line-up finds Barney Greenway bellowing fearsomely incomprehensible cut and paste complaints over shifting high velocity blast beats.
John Zorn wafts in from the New York conservatoire to blow a sax solo, and there’s an uncharacteristic symphonic moment on the chorally enhanced Fall On Their Swords.
Maximum happiness achieved, Jeremy Bentham’s mummified head is doubtless delighted.
James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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