Napalm Death recently performed live at the NPR headquarters in Washington, DC as part of the “Tiny Desk Concert Series.” You can watch that set below:
Vocalist Mark “Barney” Greenway commented:
“I’ve dipped in and out of ‘Democracy Now!’ via NPR Radio for decades now to get my unvarnished-yet-thoughtful North American news. So when the NPR ‘Tiny Desk’ thing came up, it kind of blew my tiny mind a little bit. We realized that we were going to reach far more people than usual with the ‘Tiny Desk’ performance, but as you might expect from Napalm Death, we were never going to temper the performance to any degree. We hope everybody at least gets something from it, even if it’s just an understanding of musical abrasion being pushed to the nth degree. Please always support public access broadcasting in view of the ongoing relentless attacks upon it.”
NPR Music producer and writer Lars Gotrich added:
“The first grindcore band at the ‘Tiny Desk’ had to be the founding fathers. I turned down or said ‘maybe later’ to so many others — that’s how important it was to me to get this right. There is only one Napalm Death, not only exemplary of extreme music but also what it takes to be human in what feels like an inhumane time.”
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