Napalm Death

Napalm Death
Napalm Death live at Hammerfest 2010.
Background information
Origin	Meriden, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Genres	Grindcore death metal hardcore punk (early)
Years active	1981–present
Labels	Century Media Spitfire Earache Columbia/Sony Combat Relativity Dream Catcher Feto Snapper Music Peaceville
Associated acts	Benediction Blood from the Soul Brujeria Carcass Cathedral Defecation Dream Theater Doom Meathook Seed Extreme Noise Terror Godflesh Lock Up Scorn Terrorizer Unseen Terror Volbeat Venomous Concept
Website	napalmdeath.org
Members	Shane Embury Mark "Barney" Greenway Mitch Harris Danny Herrera

External video

Napalm Death live in Germany, 1987 YouTube, authorized by Earache Records.

Napalm Death are a British grindcore band formed in Meriden, West Midlands, England, in 1981. While none of its original members remain in the group since December 1986, the lineup of vocalist Mark "Barney" Greenway, bassist Shane Embury, guitarist Mitch Harris and drummer Danny Herrera has remained consistent of the band's career since 1992's Utopia Banished

Napalm Death are credited as pioneers of the grindcore genre by incorporating elements of crust punk and death metal, using a noise-filled sound that uses heavily distorted, down-tuned guitars, grinding overdrive bass, high speed tempo, blast beats, and vocals which consist of incomprehensible growls, or high-pitched shrieks, extremely short songs, fast tempos, and sociopolitical lyrics. The band's debut album Scum, released in 1987 by Earache Records, proved substantially influential throughout the global metal community. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, their song "You Suffer" is the shortest song in the world, at only 1.316 seconds long.

Napalm Death have released fifteen studio albums and are listed by Nielsen SoundScan as the seventh best-selling death metal band in the United States.

Napalm Death were formed in the village of Meriden near Coventry, in the United Kingdom, in May 1981 by Nic Bullen and Miles Ratledge while the duo were still in their early teenage years. The duo had been playing in amateur bands since 1980 as an extension of their fanzine writing, and went through a number of names (including "Civil Defence", "The Mess", "Evasion", and "Undead Hatred") before choosing Napalm Death in mid 1981. The band were initially inspired by the early wave of punk bands, particularly the anarcho-punk movement (a subgenre of punk music focused on anarchist politics), and associated groups such as Crass.