NAPALM DEATH: Bucharest Footage Available

Video footage of British grindcore pioneers NAPALM DEATH performing in Bucharest, Romania on January 12, 2009 can be viewed below.

NAPALM DEATH will release its new album, "Time Waits For No Slave", via Century Media Records on the following dates:

Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Benelux, Italy: January 23
Spain, Portugal: January 27
Sweden, Finland, Hungary: January 28
UK: February 2
France, Greece, Denmark, Norway, Rest of Europe: January 26
USA: February 10

NAPALM DEATH recorded "Time Waits For No Slave" with producer Russ Russell. Drums were tracked at Parlour Studios in Kettering and guitars, bass and vocals were done at Foel Studios in Wales. The band then returned to Parlour for the mixing sessions.

Check out the song "Diktat" on the band's MySpace page.

The cover artwork for "Time Waits For No Slave", which was created by artist Mick Kenney, can be viewed below.

Regarding the lyrical concept of the new album, NAPALM DEATH frontman Mark "Barney" Greenway recently told Swedish webzine CriticalMass.se, "The religious theme is still in there, it's less prevalent, but it's part of the overall theme. Talking about a general theme, the album really is quite a simple concept. Originally I tried to make it not conceptual at all, but I always seem to lean toward these — some would say — grand theories or ideas. You know, we, as humans, spend a lot of time working ourselves into the grave. For some of us it's because we've kind of been conditioned to think that that is the thing to do. For some others, it's because we believe we need to get as much money or other status symbols as we can. I think that maybe I personally fit into the first category. This is as much an observation of myself as it is of anyone else. And given that I think that we sometimes fail to acknowledge and appreciate the simple things around us, understand and experience what it is to take a day off and go and sit in the park on a bench or under a tree or whatever, and watch the world unfold around you know. Because we miss those things sometimes, because we're not looking, and I think in some ways unless we have that kind of understanding of the simpler things, we can't really understand the more complex things in life. So I think it's really important that we take a step back and acknowledge that and perhaps do something about it, you know. That's the concept of the album, basically. It's quite a basic concept that perhaps you and other people have thought about yourselves, but then there are a lot of other things that branch of from that, things like marriage, religion, personal faith, the perceived role of women today and things like that."

"Unfit Earth":

"Suffer The Children":

"From Enslavement To Obliteration":