Napalm Death released their sixteenth studio album, Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism .
The band's first album since Apex Predator – Easy Meat follows the singles "Backlash Just Because," "Amoral," and "A Bellyful of Salt And Spleen."
Regarding the album's concept, vocalist Mark “Barney” Greenway (who was our most recent guest on The Wikimetal Happy Hour ) explains, “The phrase that came to mind when I started thinking about the lyrical direction of this album was 'the other',” states Barney. “You could recognize at the time that there was a rapidly growing fear and paranoia about everyone, from people migrating to people with fluid sexuality, and this was beginning to manifest in very antagonistic reactions that you thought were almost approaching violence. Not everyone has reactions like that, of course, but even basic misunderstanding can become toxic over time.”
“I’m not saying this is an entirely new phenomenon, but that it has been fueled in recent history by some particularly ‘swallowed minds’ in political matters and, as always, I felt that the natural antidote would be to endorse basic humanity and solidarity with everyone,” he concludes.
Listen below to Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism , by Napalm Death.
