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 Scum album that would ensure their place in the grand pantheon
of heaviness. A visceral dismantling of conventions, it effectively kick-started the entire Grindcore scene, gaining Napalm Death something approaching household name status for their insane speeds, animalistic screams and uncompromising political stance. From that moment, the band became synonymous with both proudly-held ethical principles and the relentless pursuit of new ways to terrorise people with riffs and noise. By the early ‘90s, Napalm Death had coalesced around a steady line-up of vocalist Barney Greenway, bassist Shane Embury, drummer Danny Herrera and guitarists Mitch
Harris and Jesse Pintado. Renowned for both unrelenting tour 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 sad passing of Pintado in 2006, the 21st century has seen Napalm Death continue to refine and redefine their still epoch-wrecking sound, with instant classic albums like Smear Campaign (2006) and Utilitarian (2012) adding further flesh to the bones of this ongoing legend. While many veteran bands are content to repeat themselves or to wallow in nostalgia, these noise-hungry stalwarts seem to have gained fresh impetus and momentum in recent times, as showcased on 2015’s Apex Predator – Easy Meat, and its universally acclaimed and truly mind-bending Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism (2020). The creation of the latter masterpiece clearly ranks as one of the most fertile periods in
Napalm Death history, as the band are now to unleash a brand new 30-minute mini-album, Resentment is
Always 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’s
devotion 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 of stuff!” 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 recorded enough that we still had a lot of bonus tracks for the original album release, and we had all this extra stuff left
over!” Continuing the fearless exploration of their legendary sound’s outer limits, Resentment is Always Seismic... is
full of jaw-dropping moments where heaviness and insanity collide. From the crushing, ultra-distorted grooves of opener Narcissus and the sluggish, Swans-saluting oppression of Resentment Always Simmers, to the
visceral rage attack of By Proxy and blistering covers of Bad Brains’ Don’t Need It and industrial noise rock
icons 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 Embury
morphs 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 we really went for it,” Barney concludes. “With the title track, Shane punted the idea of doing a remix, and I thought yeah, why not? We’ve always shared a love of things like Coil, and all that dark, soundscape stuff, so I was quite happy for him to do that. Him and Russ [Russell, producer] built the track, with all kinds of inanimate objects being thrown around in very unsavoury ways! [Laughs] It turned out really fucking good.”

FROZEN SOUL's brand of straightforward, in-your-face death metal is a gasp of fresh air in a genre that's
stretched the very limits of technicality. Fully formed in 2018, the quintet has rapidly made a name for
itself and churned the underground with a sound that evokes the old school sound of bands like
Obituary, Mortician, and Bolt Thrower. That reverence for death metal's roots was apparent from
Frozen Soul's initial four-song Encased in Ice demo, which includes a cover of Mortician's "Witch's
Coven" and was released in early 2019 on California's Maggot Stomp Records.

FROZEN SOUL entered the studio in early March 2020 to record its first full-length with former guitarist
Daniel Schmuck handling production and mixing duties. Crypt of Ice is nothing short of a breath of very
fresh and very cold air on death metal's fiery landscape. From re-recorded demo tracks including the
call-to-arms of "Encased in Ice" and the savage frost blister of "Wraith of Death" to the brutal,
pummeling, and momentous guitar churn of "Arctic Stranglehold," FROZEN SOUL have delivered a
record that embraces the genre's past while pushing death metal forward with frigid force.