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Napalm Death
Creating some of the most ferocious, abrasive, thundering sounds ever heard,
West Midlands band Napalm Death re-interpreted heavy metal in the late 1980s,
turning it into a hardcore, a-tonal eruption of noise known as grindcore.
Inspired by the classic hard rock acts Black Sabbath and Motörhead and the
anarcho-experimental punk of Crass and Throbbing Gristle, the band really took
off when, championed by Radio 1 DJ John Peel, debut album Scum (1987) went on to
become a landmark of the underground metal scene. Their 1.3 second track "You
Suffer" was listed in the Guinness Book of W...
