NAPALM DEATH Frontman: 'We Have Always Been A Band That Goes Against The Grain'

November 24, 2006

NAPALM DEATH frontman Mark "Barney" Greenway told Scott Iwasaki of the Deseret Morning News that when the pioneering grindcore act went into the recording studio to record its new CD, "Smear Campaign", band members thought it would be an uneventful session.

"We were in the country in Wales, five miles away from any big disturbance," Greenway said. "All we had were a herd of cows and some other farm animals. But things got interesting."

Greenway had to perform multiple vocal tracks because of the "mooing," he said. "I'd get ready to scream, and since I was using a remote microphone, it would pick up this awful 'MOOO!' and I would have to start over."

Then one day someone left a gate open, and the cows stampeded onto the studio grounds. "Some of our crew got nudged around, and we stepped in a lot of smelly things."

Still, those little things didn't stop NAPALM DEATH, the founder of grindcore — a blend of punk and speed metal — from recording its new album "Smear Campaign". "This album, I think, is the most single-issue album we have done. I think the world is in a scary place.

"I mean, I think any kind of oppression is bad. I think racism is bad and I think self-righteousness is bad. And this album addresses things like that. We have always been a band that goes against the grain, but I think we've zeroed more on single issues than a wide variety of issues as in the past."

Read the entire article at www.deseretnews.com.

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