Birmingham's NAPALM DEATH will never set back with their struggle to speak out against the harm perpetrated by greedy few upon poors, unpriviligedand disadvantaged groups and with a brand new album coming out end of January 2015 the foursome proves, whether necessary, there's still a lot to speak out against 33 years into their career.The album’s striking artwork, which can be seen above, was created by Danish designer Frode Sylthe / Friktion.com, who has previously worked on NAPALM DEATH’s latest album “Utilitarian” as well as with bands such as At The Gates, Totalt Javla Morker, The Haunted or Burst. NAPALM DEATH checked in to comment about the artwork as follows:
“There are many meanings that you could grab from the new album artwork, I think. But one is the representation of how our natural and most basic needs for happiness and communication are being stripped away by materialism and pre-packaged garbage - crap that we don't need, filtered to us through the media via the megacorporations with the goal to maintain the bloated bottom line of profit. It's all just stuff that will be obsolete in 6 months time. And behind the scenes of course, modern day slavery is alive, well and obscured by this facade. It's all an exercise in deceit to shower us with fake fulfilment, while the poor and underprivileged fall further by the wayside“. - Shane Embury / NAPALM DEATH
“Across the albums, we have had some very complex and interconnected artwork. This time we wanted to keep it more simple - strip it down perhaps to a single image that would sharpen the focus. I loved the idea of the supermarket-style packaging as soon as I saw it, as when you go into one of those places with nourishment in mind and you're greeted with some miserable, artificially-enhanced foodstuff contained in a bleak little receptacle of industrial plastics, it doesn't exactly inspire you. To then fill that plastic tray with the dregs of meat production, well, that is the 'easy meat' in the title - representing the people who suffer for burgeoning consumption degraded and dumped in the most pitiful way”. - Mark 'Barney' Greenway / NAPALM DEATH
The tracklisting for the standard edition of “Apex Predator - Easy Meat” reads as follows:
NAPALM DEATH - “Apex Predator - Easy Meat”:
1. Apex Predator - Easy Meat
2. Smash A Single Digit
3. Metaphorically Screw You
4. How The Years Condemn
5. Stubborn Stains
6. Timeless Flogging
7. Dear Slum Landlord…
8. Cesspits
9. Bloodless Coup
10. Beyond The Pale
11. Stunt Your Growth
12. Hierarchies
13. One-Eyed
14. Adversarial / Copulating Snakes
Most recently, NAPALM DEATH debut the album’s first single online and you can now check out the relentless “Cesspits” here: https://soundcloud.com/centurymedia/napalm-death-cesspits/
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