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Napalm Death - New Single Out


Napalm Death are excited to premiere a new single/video, called "A Bellyful Of Salt And Spleen". The track appears on the band's soon-to-be-released full length effort, Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism, due September 18th through Century Media. The video clip was directed by Sam Edwards & Khaled Lowe.




Vocalist Mark 'Barney' Greenway commented about the song/video as follows: "A Bellyful of Salt and Spleen", you could say, is about building and breaking down in the same discordant breath. The building came in the sense of many layers of coruscating industrial ambience, all marching to the beat of a home-made drum kit consisting of rubbish bins, oil drums and industrial screw parts and other bits that Shane could find littered around the studio grounds. The scope and gravity and density just demanded a vocal that was as baritone and anguished as I could push out of myself.

"The breaking down side of it was the intention to just focus minds to understand that people who traverse continents, suffocate in confined spaces or drown grasping for assistance are as keen to live in dignity and peace - and without violence and hunger - as the rest of us. As ever, quite simply, we are all human beings and if that means anything anymore, a helping hand is the least we can offer.

"Sam Edwards & Khaled Lowe, directing the video, really focussed our minds in the way they wanted to drill down into the indifference generated around these things - via some incredible animation and suchlike married to the stuttering engines of unseaworthy vessels and the precision shunt of our industrial pounding. The whole visual concept of beach life going on around bodies washed up on the shore is a grotesque scenario that illustrates how meaningless those we can't connect to our own small universe can become."

And video directors Sam Edwards / Khaled Lowe from A-Side Films added the following comment: "This film was commissioned by UK Grindcore pioneers Napalm Death. Both the song & video address the disturbing prevalence of the "anti-outsider" in contemporary society; from popular right wing publications filled with hate-fuelled rhetoric through to the chilling nonchalance of holiday makers found relaxing in front of washed up corpses.

"Based on real events, the film uses a combination of live action and animation to depict a doomed voyage; Escaping their ruined city, a family of refugees meet a tragic end when their boat sinks during a storm. As the dinghy sinks near the shoreline, indifferent tourists party & picnic. Bodies wash up on the beach while people take selfies, heedless to the carnage behind them. The story concludes with images of a vast "sea cemetery" of floating gravestones & an obscure ghostly figure drifting on the horizon - these represent the countless lives lost in the pursuit of freedom from oppression and the ease with which they are forgotten."

Source: facebook.com
Band profile: Napalm Death
Posted: 04.09.2020 by conscientiousnes


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04.09.2020 - 23:06
nikarg

I hear Swans and Godflesh. And "Morale". I like.
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05.09.2020 - 21:04
Rapid Fire

Get the Godflesh vibes too. By the tracks they have dropped so far it seems we are gonna get a very diverse album, color me interested.
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Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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