What is the point of the extreme? Since the grottmålade orgies have the artistic man found it difficult to keep away from the obscene. For many, it has an intrinsic value – from Mr. Cools pedofilrap to South Parks könshumor and Watains djurbrännande.
For Napalm Death, on the other hand, it is unrestrained in itself uninteresting. The boys from the british Midlands created grindcoregenren, one of the worst one can listen to. But unlike many of his followers to see the limb as the means rather than the goal.
”Barney” Greenway talks about it in every interview, and the talk follows up on the scene. He is a lecturer. In the ”Call that an option?” punctured the rhetoric about nuclear weapons, ”Standardization” is a blottläggande of how a conformist society easily becomes dangerous. A long speech about the growing european fascism preceding the ”Continuing war on stupidity”. And so on.
the Chaos, the noise, is only there to underline the message. Napalm Death may have created the sub-genre, more than any other is known to crawl around in disgust – some of its biggest bands called Cock and Ball Torture and Holocausto Canibal – but the fact is they are still a bunch of british punks.
they don’t like a little honest data. The music from genre-defining album ”Scum” even today, thirty years later, as incredibly heated. Each song is like its own little nuclear bomb. Comes from nowhere, swirling around for a few seconds and ending in a big scream.
Even the more moderate excursions to classic hardcore and death metal requires one to squint and fill in yourself for the nuances to be heard. The treble can, literally, get ears to bleed.
But it is not scary. When Barney made his strange roddbåtsrörelser so many times that he loses pappabyxorna, stops to snap them and dry will pardon her ”clothing malfunction” becomes the band’s mission most clearly: the Entertainment is for wimps. This is the protest.
Read more music reviews of Noah Soderberg, for example, about how the thing with Mastodon is that they are doing what comes to them in, all the time.
