The 15th studio album, “Apex Predator – Easy Meat”, by UK Grind pioneers NAPALM DEATH is released today in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Finland via Century Media Records.
The exact other international street dates per country:
UK / BENELUX / FRANCE / GREECE / DENMARK / PORTUGAL / NORWAY / REST OF EUROPE: Monday, January 26, 2015
NORTH AMERICA / ITALY / SPAIN / POLAND: Tuesday, January 27, 2015
SWEDEN: Wednesday, January 28, 2015
AUSTRALIA / NEW ZEALAND: Friday, January 30, 2015
To celebrate the album’s first release, a really special promotional video clip for the short and intense track “Smash A Single Digit” is being debuted today via the websites of Decibel Magazine (for North America), Metal Hammer UK (for Europe) and Metal Hammer Germany (for Germany). Check the clip here: Click Here. The video for “Smash A Single Digit” was directed and produced by Michael Panduro, who has previously worked for bands like Cephalic Carnage, Saint Vitus or Job For A Cowboy.
Trivia facts about this clip: The video is made up of 1093 unique drawings, each one hand-drawn in ink on paper by artist Lisbet Fredslund ( www.facebook.com/ElfShotLameWitch) and actually 225 of the drawings are of the face of NAPALM DEATH vocalist “Mark “Barney” Greenway, who checked in to comment the clip as follows:
“Couldn’t be happier with the ‘Smash A Single Digit’ video clip. It shows nothing of dignity or life’s fundamental pleasures – only a snapshot of those unfortunate enough to only be deemed as numbers for production quotas in this world. When a ‘digit’ has therefore been expended, it is rubbed out (or consumed leaving no trace, as in the case of this video). In my opinion, Michael Panduro and the team produced a real work of art and I think the general style holds some really nice future artistic possibilities for NAPALM DEATH”.
The tracklisting for the standard edition of “Apex Predator – Easy Meat” reads as follows:
NAPALM DEATH – “Apex Predator – Easy Meat”:
1. Apex Predator – Easy Meat
2. Smash A Single Digit
3. Metaphorically Screw You
4. How The Years Condemn
5. Stubborn Stains
6. Timeless Flogging
7. Dear Slum Landlord…
8. Cesspits
9. Bloodless Coup
10. Beyond The Pale
11. Stunt Your Growth
12. Hierarchies
13. One-Eyed
14. Adversarial / Copulating Snakes
– Jewel Case CD with 20-page booklet (14 songs)
– Digital Download (14 songs)
– 180gr. LP with a double-sided A2 poster, lyric sheet and one bonus track (15 songs, bonus track: “Critical Gluttonous Mass”)
– Limited Mediabook CD with expanded 40-page booklet, a sticker and 3 bonus tracks (17 songs, bonus tracks: “What Is Past Is Prologue”, “Oh So Pseudo” and the G-ANX cover-version “Clouds Of Cancer / Victims Of Ignorance”)
– Digipak CD with 24-page booklet and one bonus track / North America only! (15 songs, bonus track: “Oh So Pseudo”)
– Limited red-coloured Cassette with one bonus track (15 songs, bonus track: “Critical Gluttonous Mass”)
– Limited Mailorder Boxset, 1000x copies worldwide (Content: Mediabook CD with expanded 40-page booklet, a sticker and 3 bonus tracks, a clear cassette version of the album with one bonustrack, an exclusive NAPALM DEATH beanie, a double-sided A3 poster and a button bag with 3 pins).
– Unlimited Black LP
– 200x Clear LP (Via CM Webshop Europe) Sold out!
– 300x White LP (Via CM Distro Europe) Sold out!
– 200x Transparent Green LP (Via Nuclear Blast Europe)
– 800x Solid Red LP (Via CM North America)
– 200x Solid Blue LP (Via CM Distro USA)
– 200x Dark Green LP (Via CM Distro USA)
CM Distro
Amazon
EMP Or digitally via Itunes here: iTunes (Apex Predator)
NAPALM DEATH previously debuted the first two tracks from “Apex Predator – Easy Meat” promotionally here:
Cesspits
How The Years Condemn
22.-26.01.2015 Florida/Jamaica – 70,000 Tons Of Metal Cruise / 70000tons.com
“Through Space And Grind” North American Tour 2015:
Featuring NAPALM DEATH & VOIVOD
w/ Exhumed, Iron Reagan and Black Crown Initiate
and special guests (on select dates) Ringworm, Dayglo Abortions, Theories and Phobia
27.01.2015 Miami, FL – Grand Central *
28.01.2015 St Petersburg, FL – State Theater *
29.01.2015 Atlanta, GA – Masquerade *
30.01.2015 Winston-Salem, NC – Ziggy’s *
31.01.2015 Baltimore, MD – Soundstage *
02.02.2015 New York, NY – Gramercy Theater *
03.02.2015 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer *
04.02.2015 Toronto, ON – Opera House
05.02.2015 Ottawa, ON – Maverick’s
06.02.2015 Montreal, QC – Club Soda
07.02.2015 Worcester, MA – Palladium *
08.02.2015 Poughkeepsie, NY – The Chance Theater *
09.02.2015 Cleveland, OH – Agora Ballroom *
10.02.2015 Chicago, IL – Reggie’s *
11.02.2015 Minneapolis, MN – Amsterdam *
12.02.2015 Winnipeg, MB – The Zoo
13.02.2015 Regina, SK – The Exchange
14.02.2015 Calgary, AB – Republik
15.02.2015 Edmonton, AB – Starlite Room
17.02.2015 Vancouver, BC – Rickshaw Theater **
18.02.2015 Seattle, WA – Studio 7 #
19.02.2015 Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theater
20.02.2015 Oakland, CA – Metro ##
21.02.2015 Fresno, CA – Strummers ##
22.02.2015 Los Angeles, CA – House Of Blues
23.02.2015 Tempe, AZ – Club Red ##
24.02.2015 Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater ##
25.02.2015 Denver, CO – Summit Music Hall ##
26.02.2015 Lawrence, KS – Granada Theater ##
27.02.2015 Dallas, TX – Gas Monkey ##
28.02.2015 Houston, TX – Fitzgerald’s ##
* = Ringworm, ** = Dayglo Abortions, # = Theories, ## = Phobia
Live @ Festivals 2015:
06.06.2015 Bangalore (India) – Bangalore Open Air (India)
07.08.2015 Jaromer (Czech Republic) – Brutal Assault Festival
28.08.2015 Gigors et Lozeron (France) – Freakshow Festival
29.08.2015 Wörrstadt (Germany) – Neuborn Open Air Festival
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Metal Shock Finland (World Assault ) 