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.
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