Leaders Not Followers
Napalm Death
Engineer: Simon Efemey, Russ Russell,
Producer: Simon Efemey, Russ Russell
Relapse Records (USA), 2006
1 CD
Catalogue #: 6452
EAN: 0781676645220
UPC: 781676645220
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Napalm Death: Mark "Barney" Greenway (vocals); Mitch Harris, Jesse Pintado (guitar); Shane Embury (bass); Danny Herrera (drums).
Recorded at Jacobs Studios, Surrey, England on from July 21-24, 1999. Includes liner notes by Borivoj Krgin.
With LEADERS NOT FOLLOWERS, metal/hardcore heavyweight outfit Napalm Death joins the ranks of Slayer and Metallica in releasing an EP of cover songs, taking this premise in an even more extreme direction. While Metallica brought songs by bands such as Budgie and Killing Joke to a metal mainstream audience, Napalm Death pays tribute to underground hardcore, grindcore, metal, and punk acts, some of which saw the legendary tape trading phenomenon of the '80s as their only means of distribution.
LEADERS NOT FOLLOWERS spans the globe in its nostalgic trek, from Italy's Raw Power, through Toronto's Slaughter (not to be confused with the hair metal band of the same name), to little-known Pentagram from Chile. The centerpiece of the set is "Nazi Punks Fuck Off, " by the Dead Kennedys, re-recorded especially for this essential collection.
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Napalm Death
Napalm Death was one of the definitive death metal/grindcore bands to emerge from England's anarcho-punk scene of the early-1980s. They've written some of the most sonically ferocious songs ever, playing a brutally loud, ridiculously fast hybrid of punk and metal and infusing it with politically charged lyrics, which are often obscured by rumbling, razor-shredded vocals. The band continued to record throughout the 1990s and into the 2000s, and has helped spawn numerous equally extreme subgenres--from doom and black metal to power violence and metalcore.
