Napalm Death

With over a million albums sold to date, NAPALM DEATH leads the way in the top of the most profitable bands in the small club of the death-metal elite. More than 30 years after the famous “Scum” debut, the only representative of the extreme steel industry along with the 1,400 names in the glorious Rock Compendium (published by Rough Guide in 1999), remains the most aggressive, nonconformist, but also the most inventive overall of the metal scene.

Mitch Harris says once of their much-trumpeted secret of success:

"NAPALM DEATH has its own way of understanding brutality and constantly tests new sounds, preserving the basic style. We will approach the path of the experiment in the future, but we will certainly remain the same extreme band"

With NAPALM DEATH, the damage done to the thrash, speed, black, and death styles by the mainstream rock press was partially recovered, the band continued, with the massive support of the Earache Record Label (the first record institution entirely devoted to thrash and its drastic variants), to instigate, inspire and lead a large legion of underground bands in search of sound identity. Even if the music establishment continues to unjustly ignore the essential contribution of the band to the birth and development of the grindcore subgenre, the discographic prolificacy, the constant effort of stylistic recovery that does not betray the extreme precepts, and the insatiable appetite for concerts and tours, proves that NAPALM DEATH is an essential group, despite the difficulties of perception of the ordinary listener. Rarely has the extreme underground propelled its name so quickly, and the band's trajectory, after the release of the first LP, has shown that anything is possible.

NAPALM DEATH originally appeared in Birmingham in 1982 as a punk band, but, dispersing its original style in the mid-1990s, it absorbed the essence of punk, metal, and thrash brutality, generating that chaotic, ultra-fast, excessive mix of speed, which totally neglects the melody and harmony, called grindcore, the most extreme of all musical forms.