Napalm Death, “Leper Colony” (official album track).
Taken from their 14th studio album “Utilitarian” on Century Media, available Feb 27 (EU) or Feb 28 (USA), 2012.
Cover artwork is by the Danish artist Frode Sylthe, who was also responsible for The Haunted`s “Revolver” artwork.
On the band´s web site, singer Mark “Barney” Greenway explains about the album title and concept: “After some deliberation, we have decided on “Utilitarian” as the album title. We generally try to avoid generic titles, and this seemed to have a lot of scope to it. I won’t explain the full meaning of Utilitarianism here because it’s an ethical theory, and as ethical theories go, the depth and debate around it is quite heavy at times. It has a certain ‘morality’ aspect to it and that isn’t something that drives me, so I also certainly have issues with it. So, rather than just nail that straight to the mast, of course we wanted to put our own spin on it by suggesting that those (i.e. the utilitarian in us, perhaps) who try to challenge everything, or fight against conventions, well, we go through periods of real self-doubt where we wonder if we’re really making a difference. I suppose the conclusion is that, for the sake of all our freedoms, you should never stop, as even the feeling of resistance is at least a signal to those who would like to entirely control and dominate us – meaning everything from our instinctive behavior to our human entitlement to walk the earth unprovoked. Regarding the album overall, the final creases should be ironed out fairly soon, and immediately after that we thought it would be good to top it off with a few UK dates. We’ve been playing one new song (“Quarantined”) out on a tour of Canada and it’s been well received, so we hope to perhaps throw in another one for now. Either way, we’ll be bouncing off the walls again near you very soon. Cheers all.”
Napalm Death are already confirmed for the 2012 Wacken Open Air, Hellfest, Maryland Deathfest and many more.
The 7″ vinyl single “Analysis Paralysis” is also available for preorder and is strictly limited and hand-numbered to 1000 copies (500 in black vinyl, 300 in transparent and 200 in white), only available via the CMDistro web site.
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