NAPALM DEATH & MELVINS

40 Watt

6:00            Doors
6:30-7:00       Dark Sky Burial
7:15-7:45       Weedeater
8:05-8:50       Melvins
9:10- 10:10  Napalm Death

40 Watt Club

About The MelvinsThe Melvins are one of modern music’s most influential bands. Having formed in 1983Montesano, Washington, the group - founded by vocalist/guitarist Buzz Osborne, withdrummer Dale Crover joining a year later - has been credited with merging the worlds of punkrock and heavy music, forming a new subgenre all their own. Over their 40-plus-year career,they’ve released more than 30 original albums, numerous live records, and far too many tocount singles and rarities. Recent releases include 2024’s Tarantula Heart, a really goodcollection of what the Melvins do, what they can do and what they want to do, and Five LeggedDog (2021), an ambitious 36-track acoustic collection that reimagines their heaviest songsalongside covers of their favorite artists. Throughout their discography, the Melvins havecollaborated with Jello Biafra, Mudhoney, and Fantômas for individual releases and toured theworld many times over. Remarkably, they had the misfortune to be in both Christchurch andTokyo for their 2011 earthquakes. In 2012, the Melvins completed the “51 States in 51 Days”(50 states +DC) tour, which was chronicled in the film “Across The USA in 51 Days.” The currentincarnation of the band is Osborne, Crover, and Steven McDonald (Redd Kross). Previous line-ups included a pairing of Osborne and Crover with Jared Warren and Coady Willis of BigBusiness, a four-piece featuring the current trio plus Butthole Surfers’ Jeff Pinkus, as well asMelvins Lite, which partners Osborne and Crover with Mr. Bungle’s Trevor Dunn. Sometimes, ifyou’re extra lucky, one version of the Melvins will open for the Melvins.

Although the name Napalm Death has existed since 1981,as the band’s first line-up plundered the post- and anarcho-punk scenes for inspiration, it was 1987’s seminal Scumalbum that would ensure their place in the grand pantheonof heaviness. A visceral dismantling of conventions, iteffectively kick-started the entire Grindcore scene, gainingNapalm Death something approaching household namestatus for their insane speeds, animalistic screams anduncompromising political stance. From that moment, theband became synonymous with both proudly-held ethicalprinciples and the relentless pursuit of new ways to terrorisepeople with riffs and noise.By the early ‘90s, Napalm Death had coalesced around asteady line-up of vocalist Barney Greenway, bassist ShaneEmbury, drummer Danny Herrera and guitarists MitchHarris and Jesse Pintado. Renowned for both unrelentingtour schedules and a steady stream of consistently well-received albums, they have powered forward ever since,weathering transient trends, media indifference and industry skulduggery along the way. Despite the sadpassing of Pintado in 2006, the 21st century has seen Napalm Death continue to refine and redefine their stillepoch-wrecking sound, with instant classic albums like Smear Campaign (2006) and Utilitarian (2012) addingfurther flesh to the bones of this ongoing legend.While many veteran bands are content to repeat themselves or to wallow in nostalgia, these noise-hungrystalwarts seem to have gained fresh impetus and momentum in recent times, as showcased on 2015’s ApexPredator – Easy Meat, and its universally acclaimed and truly mind-bending Throes Of Joy In The Jaws OfDefeatism (2020). The creation of the latter masterpiece clearly ranks as one of the most fertile periods inNapalm Death history, as the band are now to unleash a brand new 30-minute mini-album, Resentment isAlways Seismic - a final throw of Throes. Boasting some of the band’s most experimental material yet,alongside the expected bursts of bone-shattering extremity, the new release continues Napalm Death’sdevotion to a defiantly underground punk rock ethos.“It was all recorded during the sessions for the last album, but as you know, we always record a shitload ofstuff!” says Barney Greenway. “We purposely said, right, we’re going to put a mini-album out for a change!Being from the school of hoary old punk rockers, we like to do these stripped down releases. We recordedenough that we still had a lot of bonus tracks for the original album release, and we had all this extra stuff leftover!”Continuing the fearless exploration of their legendary sound’s outer limits, Resentment is Always Seismic… isfull of jaw-dropping moments where heaviness and insanity collide. From the crushing, ultra-distorted groovesof opener Narcissus and the sluggish, Swans-saluting oppression of Resentment Always Simmers, to thevisceral rage attack of By Proxy and blistering covers of Bad Brains’ Don’t Need It and industrial noise rockicons SLAB!’s pummelling People Pie, Napalm Death’s music has never sounded more vital or unique.Nowhere is that more evident than on the new mini-album’s closing title track, wherein bassist Shane Emburymorphs into his Dark Sky Burial alter-ego for a synapse-torching remix for the ages.“These songs are pretty much an extension of the last album, but there’s a lot of crazy stuff on there and wereally went for it,” Barney concludes. “With the title track, Shane punted the idea of doing a remix, and I thoughtyeah, why not? We’ve always shared a love of things like Coil, and all that dark, soundscape stuff, so I wasquite happy for him to do that. Him and Russ [Russell, producer] built the track, with all kinds of inanimateobjects being thrown around in very unsavoury ways! [Laughs] It turned out really fucking good.”

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