UK Grindcore pioneers NAPALM DEATH will be releasing their new studio album Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism on September 18 via Century Media Records / Sony Music Australia.
They have released their first single off the upcoming album. Watch the lyric video for Backlash Just Because by Cloud Music Typography below.
NAPALM DEATH’s vocalist Mark ‘Barney’ Greenway comments about the song as follows: “This song in particular really spurred me on when I was writing lyrics for the album overall. It’s raucous and traditional, but also quirky and discordant and ultimately catchy-as-anything in the context of rampaging noise. Lyrically it was directed at the spiteful art of creating easy targets and fomenting paranoia and revulsion, which is something that I feel has become de rigeur in very recent times. I really let loose on the more sporadic vocals at the end of the song – it’s a real barkfest at that point. Lovely.”
Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism is the highly anticipated follow-up to 2015’s acclaimed Apex Predator – Easy Meat album and the 16th (!) studio album effort by NAPALM DEATH. It was again recorded with longtime producer Russ Russell and features artwork by Frode Sylthe.
From the pinnacle of confrontational instrumental extremity and steadfast lyrical humanity, NAPALM DEATH’s new album warps musical landscapes all over again. Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism includes 12 songs seething with caustic evolution and unrelenting scope.
Next to the Jewelcase CD edition of the album, Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism will also be available as Digital album and as limited Mediabook CD (+ Patch) with 3 bonus-tracks: Feral Carve-up, White Kross (Sonic Youth cover-version) and Blissful Myth (Rudimentary Peni cover-version). The vinyl version of the album will include a double-sided A2 poster and the bonus-track Air’s Turned Foul in Here in the following 180g.
