Napalm Death – Inside The Torn Apart (1997)

April 28, 2020

Inside The Torn Apart is the piggy in the middle of “those three Napalm Death records” some people like to pretend don’t exist (the groove metal trifecta!) I too in all my years of spinning ND records have been guilty of neglecting some of these discs and it is – on the surface of it – easy to see why. This is simply not grindcore. If you’re going to have a problem with that, then I wouldn’t bother listening.

But I have too much respect for Napalm Death and the journey that they took to heap too much shit onto what they were trying to do. Many parts of me get it, and whilst I do enjoy the sludgy, almost clinical in some ways sound of this record, it isn’t something that I reach for very often.