Napalm Death parted company last year with Earache Records, the label that they put on the map by filling it to the brim with their side-projects, friends bands, and almost two dozen studio EPs, singles, live albums, split releases, and videos. Napalm, however, seem totally renewed by the experience. A good friend of mine was in a band on Earache, and he likened it to a living hell. After his group split up, he still had a binding contract with the label, and had to get permission from them to have his new band's single released on another label. It s a business.
Money changes everything.
It s funny how some people change their whole attitude once the concept of actually making a living at this stuff enters the picture. The first thing that most people scratch their heads in amazement at is the utter intensity of it all. It sound like the band is fighting its own audience off. Armed with only a salty microphone, drums and guitars. This CD should establish Napalm Death as noise artists ala Aube or Merzbow.