{"id":804018,"date":"2020-02-10T09:25:18","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T16:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=949666"},"modified":"2020-02-10T09:25:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T16:25:18","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-napalm-death-logic-ravaged-by-brute-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-napalm-death-logic-ravaged-by-brute-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Napalm Death, \u2018Logic Ravaged by Brute Force\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Napalm Death<\/a> will always be best known as the band that, in the mid-to-late Eighties, united the aggression of hardcore with the darkness of metal, sped the whole thing up to outrageous tempos, and topped it off with the catchy moniker of grindcore. And more than three decades after landmark releases like From Enslavement to Obliteration \u2014 <\/em>which landed at number 59 on Rolling Stone\u2019<\/em>s 100 Greatest Metal Albums list<\/a> \u2014 they\u2019re still pretty damn great at summoning that same sort of mad-dog intensity<\/a>. But what\u2019s fascinating is just how versatile Napalm Death have turned out to be. Consider the new single \u201cLogic Ravaged by Brute Force,\u201d which arrives ahead of their first studio LP in five years.<\/p>\n

The track centers on an ominous midtempo churn, clearly indebted to the gloomy post-punk of Killing Joke, a prime influence on the band\u2019s moodier, more experimental side. Vocalist Barney Greenway talk-sings ominously during the verses, only unleashing his trademark strident roar during the chorus, when guitarist Mitch Harris \u2014 still recording with the band though he hasn\u2019t played live with Napalm Death since 2014 \u2014 breaks into a fist-pumping metallic riff. A brief bridge pits Greenway\u2019s wordless screams and drummer Danny Herrera\u2019s ferocious fills against a haze of noxious guitars, but mostly the track sticks to a compact, even catchy verse-chorus structure. By Napalm Death standards, it\u2019s an anthem. (\u201cIt\u2019s the coldness and desperation of the guitar chords and voice that swung it,\u201d Greenway said in a press release of why the band settled on this song as a single.)<\/p>\n

The track won\u2019t shock anyone who followed the band through Nineties albums like Diatribes<\/a>,<\/em> which privileged groove and texture over feral intensity, or more recent LPs where they threw in hints of everything from free jazz<\/a> to drone<\/a>. Yet it\u2019s still a reminder that Napalm Death are simply a great underground band who refuse to be boxed in by grindcore or any other niche style. They certainly don\u2019t have to keep pushing as they edge toward their 40th anniversary, but we\u2019re psyched to see that they are.<\/p>\n

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Napalm Death will always be best known as the band that, in the mid-to-late Eighties, united the aggression of hardcore with the darkness of metal, sped the whole thing up to outrageous tempos, and topped it off with the catchy moniker of grindcore. And more than three decades after landmark releases like From Enslavement to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-23 05:06:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}