Napalm Death revealed to the world that they were recently in the studio recording their fifteenth offering. Up until now we’ve not heard any news on the follow up to Utilitarian bar that it will be released some point in 2015 however the album now has a title. Rather profoundly the album will be called Apex Predator – Easy Meat, speaking of the album’s meaning Napalm Death vocalist and brummie legend Barney Greenway stated that the album deals with the idea of slavery. With most believing that the act has been abolished when in fact it is painfully apparent in the modern age, however its manifested in a different form. Read the singers in depth explanation of the album’s title below :
“Sometimes you have to ponder long and hard for an album title, but following the Rana Plaza disaster of last year (collapse of a textile sweatshop building in Bangladesh), it spurred me on to try and craft an expose of slave labour in the modern world (and the surrounding conditions propping it up). Some in power like to declare that slavery is consigned to the history books. But if you look beneath the surface, it is alive and well in many different forms — it just has a different face now, and exists in ways that may seem ethically ambiguous. Using the terminology of evolution particularly interests us, so in this case the ‘Apex Predator’ represents those who bring the slavery to bear (and capitalize from it), and the ‘Easy Meat’ is of therefore those who feel they have no option but to comply.
Fittingly, the music on ‘Apex Predator – Easy Meat’ is punishing. We feel it’s more ambient, more expansive, more unsettlingly discordant than ever, and importantly, still extremely rampant at excessive speed. We hope in every respect — both musically and lyrically — this album will make your eyes burn with the harsh sonics and harsh visions of the dumping ground of globalisation.”
As ever Apex Predator – Easy Meat, doesn’t sound set to be a happy tale, nevertheless I believe that it is one that we should all heed, that much of this is going on throughout modern day. Perhaps the album itself could work on two different levels? Showcasing the harshness of the “slavers” and the defenceless “slaves”, perhaps a little too in depth there… It is Napalm Death after all. Stick with us and we will let you know the second we hear more on the album.
Apex Predator – Easy Meat will be released January 27th via Century Media Records, to ensure that Napalm Death will remorselessly shake off those Christmas blues.
