Spitfire
2001
Enemy Of The Music Business
About This Album
While no one should ever accuse Napalm Death of being complacent, there's nothing like record label troubles to force a band to pool its collective energy and refocus its intent. Napalm's previous two records, Inside the Torn Apart and Words From the Exit Wound, were every bit the grind metal excursions fans expected them to be, although they seemed a bit uninspired in comparison to the band's benchmark releases Scum, Harmony Corruption, and Fear Emptiness Despair. When the group's longtime relationship with Earache Records hit the skids, the subsequent bitterness from both parties gave Napalm Death the fuel to regroup, reorganize, and reemerge as the unwieldy, venom-spewing grind python that longtime followers craved. The result? The none-too-subtle Enemy of the Music Business, which kicks off with "Take the Poison," one minute and 49 seconds of abject, heart-bursting terror, guitarists Jesse Pintado and Mitch Harris peeling off flesh-filleting riffs with deadly accuracy as lead throat Barney Greenway shrieks like a speared baboon. In fact, the first seven cuts on Enemy just don't let up, no riff, growl, or certifiably insane drum fill wasted, all muscle and no fat, slabs of meat meant to be consumed by only the strongest of stomachs, 20 suffocating minutes of limb-flailing, venomous, full-tilt Armageddon punctuated by lung-busters "Thanks for Nothing" and "Can't Play, Won't Pay.
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