[kj] [KJ] OT: NAPALM DEATH - Killing Joke fans...

[Christof hamille]

At very least I've always admired Napalm Death.  
When they started that scene was booming.  Heresy, Ripcord, Concrete Sox, Deviated Instinct, Extreme Noise Terror and on and on.  Some really great stuff came from the mid-late 80s UK.  
They've been a bit hit or miss for me over the years.  Nothing awful.  
As much as I love Scum and From Enslavement I question whether it stands the test of time.  Sure it is the first chapter in the really aggressive hardcore/grind/thrash/whatever.  But I am not sure if it resonates through as much today.
But yes they have always been very political and unapologetic about it.
And when they come through the US they usually have good bands with them.

BUT it is metal.  Not Screaming for Vengeance.  But pissed off, gutural barks and down tuned chugging.  So not everyone can appreciate it.

Chris



Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:10:52 +0000
From: ade at the-lab.zetnet.co.uk
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: [kj] [KJ] OT: NAPALM DEATH - Killing Joke fans...





[KJ] OT: NAPALM DEATH - Killing Joke fans...







First time I saw 'em, was on that highly entertaining BBC documentary called 'Heavy Metal',


which also includes Jimmy Page for all you Zeppelin haters HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!


Anyway, when I saw them on that docu in '89, I couldn't help but see them as a novelty


- I think many did when they heard 'You Suffer'. I never realised they were so staunchly political.


I've mentioned them on here before & there are a few fans of the earlier material. I always liked


Diatribes, but had not really gotten into the band.


So I went to see them again this summer, a good excuse to get my mate out. Not my c0ck,


I mean to get my friend out the house. No, that's not another euphemism for getting my


c0ck out in public, but if it makes you tingle, then that's OK.


Well, this time it just totally fucking clicked. Pure fucking gold!!!!!!!! Since then I haven't


listened to much else. I love how they came back with Enemy in 2000 & haven't stopped it


since. But then I like the 90's material too - the variation of this band astounds. If you get


a chance to watch 'Punishment in Capitals', it's sure to make your love-glands do things.


And the fact they're (originally) local to me (Birmingham UK, home of METAL!!! \m/ ), highly


political, are a mixture of death, hardcore, punk, alternative, have great influences such as


Killing Joke - they really stand out. They sound very English!. They don't like to conform/


compromise, the original line-ups (the guys who recorded side one of Scum) became Scorn,


Godflesh (talking of early Swans!) - all bands that give me the horn. Anyone heard Scorn's Vae


Solis? Post-ND Cumfest.


So, anyway - give 'em a go - many of you may like to dip into them via 2003's "The Code is Red...


Long Live the Code": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJS76JZbP1s




ade.




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