It's too easy to start spewing cliché after cliché when writing about a band like NAPALM DEATH. After all, musical extremity sort of started with this very band back in the 80s, and somehow three decades later the same people are still in the vanguard of this movement. Which is a paradox. The present, 15th studio album by the Birmingham band, named 'Apex Predator – Easy Meat,' however, seems to reveal exactly the reasons for it.

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