Napalm Death Announce New Album Title and Release Date

HAPPY FUCKIN’ NEW YEAR!!!

Okay okay okay, so it’s only October (well, November, really), but Napalm Death, the twenty-fourth best metal band of all time, have just announced what’s sure to be the first contender for Best Album of 2015: their FIFTEENTH studio album, Apex Predator – Easy Meat, which will be released on January 27 via Century Media.

Says frontman Barney Greenway of the record:

“Sometimes you have to ponder long and hard for an album title, but following the Rana Plaza disaster of last year (collapse of a textile sweatshop building in Bangladesh), it spurred me on to try and craft an exposé of slave labour in the modern world (and the surrounding conditions propping it up).

“Some in power like to declare that slavery is consigned to the history books. But if you look beneath the surface it is alive and well in many different forms – it just has a different face now, and exists in ways that may seem ethically ambiguous. Using the terminology of evolution particularly interests us, so in this case the ‘Apex Predator’ represents those who bring the slavery to bear (and capitalise from it), and the ‘Easy Meat’ is of therefore those who feel they have no option but to comply.

“Fittingly, the music on ‘Apex Predator – Easy Meat’ is punishing. We feel it’s more ambient, more expansive, more unsettlingly discordant than ever, and importantly, still extremely rampant at excessive speed. We hope in every respect – both musically and lyrically – this album will make your eyes burn with the harsh sonics and harsh visions of the dumping ground of globalisation.”

 Barney, my man, my eyes are wide open and ready to be burned. Do you worst!

In case you missed it, here’s some fan-filmed footage of the band debuting a new song, “Dear Slum Landlord,” at Roadburn earlier this year: