Before Napalm Death, the bracing amalgam of extreme metal, brutal hardcore and intense speed called grindcore did not exist. With the groundbreaking albums Scum and From Extinction to Obliteration, ...

A stagediver jumps into the crowd as Napalm Death perform on stage at the ICA, London, United Kingdom, 1990. (Photo by Martyn Goodacre/Getty Images) The grindcore story dates back to the summer of ...

Of all of metal’s various subgenres, grindcore might well be the most extreme - and it’s arguable whether or not it is actually part of the metal family tree at all. Taking sonic and ideological ...

Grindcore pioneers Napalm Death‘s 1988 sophomore album, From Enslavement to Obliteration, is a certified classic, and we’ve teamed up with Earache to make an exclusive repressing limited to 200 on ...

Shane Embury had only ever attended one Glastonbury festival before Napalm Death were invited to become the first grindcore band to play the Worthy Farm site in the summer of 2017. That was in 1989, ...

Mark “Barney” Greenway and his co-conspirators in Napalm Death are back with Utilitarian, their new Century Media-released LP due on Feb 27th in the EU and Feb 28th in the US. We recently dropped a ...

Agit-grindcore godfathers Napalm Death have announced a string of North American tour dates kicking off in April and Orlando will have the pleasure of hosting these cult heroes. Even better, the band ...

What makes NAPALM DEATH so special? Well, let’s think back 30 years: Would you have thought that a grindcore band from Birmingham would ever make it into the official album charts with some of the ...

It’s looking very well. We’ve been extremely busy since Apex Predator. Many shows, many tours. We’re going back to Russia again in September and we recently put out Coded Smears album of rarities ...

Mark “Barney” Greenway is a man of uncompromising conviction. The wiry 55-year-old is well-versed in the world’s sociopolitical happenings and looks to history as an indicator of what must be done to ...

Napalm Death will fuck with your perception of the passage of time, man; maybe your perception of reality. Look back with me. The first iteration of the band was formed in 1981. No one involved with ...