NAPALM DEATH On Next CD: 'Expect More Short, Sharp Shocks And Lots Of Stop-Start Spontaneity'

After releasing the "Time Waits For No Slave" album via Century Media Records in 2009, British grindcore gods NAPALM DEATH have been busy travelling around the globe to massively promote the CD.

Commented vocalist Mark "Barney" Greenway: "Having just returned from a string of dates in Thailand, Australia and Japan, it's a great feeling to know that NAPALM is able to get out far and wide.

"Despite the fact that NAPALM has trail-blazed across the world, I still hope next year there will be a few new places that we can set foot in where other bands just don't go. That's still a great source of excitement.

"Back in Europe, we're pleased to be coming back on tour again in November. There are old mates in MACABRE and IMMOLATION especially, and so it'll be good to round off the touring for 'Time Waits'. with a real blowout amongst friends. We'll be turning the setlist on its head, I think, so expect a few things you haven't heard perhaps from the mists of time. Hopefully we'll know what the fuck we are doing when we come to play all that stuff.

"Which leads us into a new album, which we'll begin to piece together in January next year. Expect even more short, sharp shocks from what Shane [Embury, bass] and Mitch [Harris, guitar] have told me so far on the music front, and lots of stop-start spontaneity. No finished lyrics as yet — I'm waiting with baited breath on the first nasty-sounding MP3 roughs so I can lock myself away and get going."

Fan-filmed video footage of NAPALM DEATH's August 28, 2010 performance at the Elsrock festival in Rijssen, The Netherlands can be viewed below (courtesy of "letthedeathmetalflow").

"Time Waits For No Slave", the latest album from NAPALM DEATH, entered the German Media Control chart at position No. 95. The CD, which was released in the U.S. in February 2009 via Century Media Records, was recorded 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.

Greenway told Rock Sound magazine about "Time Waits For No Slave", "Each album appears to have got progressively better and better. There was no great master plan, really. We're just a very organic band, very spontaneous, and we just try to write the best songs possible. If there is anything in the back of our minds, then I think it's that we always try to make each album differ without losing the thread of what should be there and I think we've done that with this album."