For years I’ve kinda ignored these guys, but recently, after hearing snippets off their more recent material, my interest has been aroused.
Anyone here into them?? Where should I start?? Have listened to bits and pieces of ‘Smear Campaign’ and loved it, if that is any indication…! Is that one of their better ones??
Would like to hear from other board members on this one.
(P.S I have heard ‘Scum’ and didn’t like it. So will probably avoid their earlier material…)
Yup another Napalm Death fan here. aw man it’s too bad you don’t dig their earlier stuffs. that’s where it’s all started.
Albums like Scum, From Enslavement to Obliteration & Harmony Corruption is where they were at their peak.
I’ve stopped listening to them when they went to a more metal direction musically.
I love ND. I kinda ignored them for years but got into them about 10 years ago now. I’m more of a fan of their “newer, more metal” side. I would suggest the albums :
The Code Is Red… Long Live The Code
Fear, Despair, Emptiness
Words From The Exit Wound
Inside The Torn Apart
Enemy Of The Music Business
And their album Scum is a serious MUST HAVE for any ND fan. Trust me… It grows on you.
Peace!
Krowe
…and another fan here.
actually i got my ass kicked once for wearing their Nazi Punks Fuck Off t-shirt
Smear Campaign is great. Essentially, after Enemy Of The Music Business they went back to their trademark relentless approach… Inside The Torn Apart was their attempt at expanding their horizons, they sound a little like Godflesh or Killing Joke at times on that album.
Their early 90s death metal albums I’m not too much into, simply because they were a fairly sloppy band at the time and their more recent attempts at the style are far better.
Smear Campaign is hands down one of the greatest metal albums of the 21st century.
Seriously…it gives my Painkiller albums a run for their money in terms of ferocity.
Also, for a ‘political’ metal album, it makes The Last Sucker look utterly ridiculous. Smear Campaign is the real deal.
ND arent heavy enough.
for me they are right in that spot between being full on grindcore, and being bothersome. if they were just a little harder, id like them.
that being said ‘long live the code’ and ‘scum’ have some pretty cool moments.
not heavy enough? compared to what?
in recent years ND has easily become one the most intense extreme metal bands out there.
in terms of the sort of heaviness that death metal and grindcore metal bands have, they are also the heaviest i have seen live, beating such bands like Morbid Angel, Cannibal Corpse, Behemoth etc
I’m also going to ignore your disinterest in Scum, and say that the best album to get is, in fact, Scum. Especially now that it has that keen documentary that comes with it.
not heavy enough? compared to what?
I’ll second that!
What do you mean ‘not heavy enough’??
[shocked]
I’ll also add that the best album to start on would be either Smear Campaign or the compilation Noise For Music’s Sake.
One of my first concerts ever - saw them in London when I was 14-15 or something. Awesome show - if I remember it about 15 years later, it’s a good show.
i have always been a fan of ND, but they consistently have run a course of like 3 good lps, 1 bad one… etc.
the early years material is excellent but it’s really off to other bands to get music in that exact style now (see: Discordance Axis, etc).
the newest ones have returned a bit from ‘death metal’ song lengths and riffs and back to a bit more grind. and i’d say everything post earache thus far has been fairly quality stuff.
not heavy enough? compared to what?
in recent years ND has easily become one the most intense extreme metal bands out there.
in terms of the sort of heaviness that death metal and grindcore metal bands have, they are also the heaviest i have seen live, beating such bands like Morbid Angel, Cannibal Corpse, Behemoth etc
oh no, i guess i didnt word it right, its not that htey arent heavy… they are… its just that, they are not heavy enough to capture my interest. they sound like the scores of other grindcore beathgrind bands out there that just arent heavy enough to interest me on a grindcore level, but arent light enough to be normal metal.
id much rather listen to pig destroyer, anal cunt, agor. nosebleed, or any other scott hull stuff.
and i know their importance, and im not knocking that… just saying i’d like them to be heavier.
im seeign them open for devildriver in 2 months or so.
Ive heard pig destroyer, agoraphibic nosebleed etc and I still hold that ND is heavier than those bands.
Not yet.
…
YOU SUFFER!!!
I’ll also add that the best album to start on would be either Smear Campaign or the compilation Noise For Music’s Sake.
Thanks.
Have done a bit of background homework and have concluded that the best albums to get (according to various sources):
Fear, Emptiness, Despair
Enemy Of The Music Business
Smear Campaign
From Enslavement To Obliteration
And to avoid:
Words From The Exit Wound
Order Of The Leech
Diatribes
Order of the leech is quite good actually.
I’m telling you that you’ll be missing out if you skip Words and Long Live…
Honestly? There are plenty of torrenst where you can grab all their stuff in one go for about 1.4 gigs. I would suggest grabbing it and just giving it a quick run through… If you get to an album you hate, delete it. Simple as that. There is way too much GOOD ND to ignore and enough bad ND to need sorting through. Although some of it grows on you. Scum did that to me. I hated it at first and now it’s a regular in my deck.
Peace!
Krowe
“Opening” for Devildriver???
Er…ah…ahouldn’t that be the other way 'round?
Dez Fafra.
( shudders )
yeah i was shocked to see that, but i love devildriver. WAY WAY better than coal chamber… WAY WAY better… haha…
and hey! i like jamey jasta! hatebreed is pretty tight, and kingdom of sorrow is fucking awesome.
From what I’ve seen this is the way it is and always will be. I like the fact that no matter how “big”, “famous”, or “influential” or whatever Napalm Death gets they always wind up the opener. Shows their spirit. They aren’t in it for the fame or the money or to headline. They just wanna play their music. And damn right! Wish more bands would take a freakin’ cue from their pagebook and stop being such publicity whores.
And yeah… Some of the Hatebreed catalogue is good. I like their newer stuff more than the old stuff as it’s all got that easy groove to it. Nothing spectacular but it’s a decent head-bob background noise.
Peace!
Krowe
Not yet.
…
YOU SUFFER!!!
But why!?