Napalm Death have always enjoyed a crossover appeal in the punk and hardcore scene – one which famously saw them being hand selected by Glassjaw as tour support.
They are set to continue that with ‘Apex Predator – Easy Meat’, their fifteenth studio album. The record will be released in Europe on the 26th January 2015, and the US on the 27th via Century Media Records.
“There are many meanings that you could grab from the new album artwork, I think. But one is the representation of how our natural and most basic needs for happiness and communication are being stripped away by materialism and pre-packaged garbage – crap that we don’t need, filtered to us through the media via the megacorporations with the goal to maintain the bloated bottom line of profit,” Shane Embury of Napalm Death says of the Frode Sylthe designed artwork. “It’s all just stuff that will be obsolete in 6 months time. And behind the scenes of course, modern day slavery is alive, well and obscured by this facade. It’s all an exercise in deceit to shower us with fake fulfilment, while the poor and underprivileged fall further by the wayside.”
Napalm Death recently unveiled the lead track from the album, entitled ‘Cesspits’. The full tracklisting can be viewed below.
TRACKLISTING:
01 Apex Predator – Easy Meat
02 Smash A Single Digit
03 Metaphorically Screw You
04 How The Years Condemn
05 Stubborn Stains
06 Timeless Flogging
07 Dear Slum Landlord…
08 Cesspits
09 Bloodless Coup
10 Beyond The Pale
11 Stunt Your Growth
12 Hierarchies
13 One-Eyed
14 Adversarial / Copulating Snakes