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Jan 27, 2015Completely unrelenting; thoroughly amazing.
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Alternative PressJan 23, 2015Honestly, 34 years deep, this is one of the band's best albums. [Feb 2015, p.92]
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Jan 27, 2015Musically, the band mixes its customary blast beat-driven grindcore maelstroms--the punishing one-two assault of “Smash a Single Digit” and “Metaphorically Screw You,” the layered, complex “Cesspits”--with industrial dolor (“Dear Slum Landlord”) and junk-bin clangor (the title track): caustic nods to influential circa-early ’80s noise-mongers like Public Image Ltd. and Swans.
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Jan 23, 2015It’s a perverse and challenging listen that makes very few compromises. But the album is also both intensely lyrical and supremely musical--and it plays out in a way that is designed to be perversely uncomfortable for the ears.
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Classic Rock MagazineFeb 26, 2015Decidedly queasy listening throughout. [Apr 2015, p.98]
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Jan 29, 2015One thing that’s allowed Napalm Death to keep punching through mirrors is that as its sound has sharpened, the band’s ability to capture high-resolution chaos has sharpened, too.
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Jan 23, 2015Their traditional characteristics and intellectual concepts, incorporated with new elements and ideas, make Apex Predator - Easy Meat another impressive addition to Napalm Death's spotless catalogue.
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Kerrang!Feb 2, 2015Only one [band] could still sound this savage 15 albums in. [17 Jan 2015, p.53]
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Jan 28, 2015It’s still a Napalm Death record through and through--which means shredded eardrums and tinnitus for days. After all this time, we’d expect nothing less.
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Jan 27, 2015Apex Predator - Easy Meat arrives at a time of uncertainty in the Napalm Death camp, with longtime guitarist Mitch Harris taking an indefinite hiatus due to family illness, but it stands on its own as a fine piece of extreme metal.
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Jan 23, 2015Five albums in to an unexpected late-career burst of greatness, grindcore pioneers Napalm Death have done it again with this awesomely titled album.
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Mar 16, 2015Apex Predator: Easy Meat is a pummeling listen that doesn't get old.
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Jan 29, 2015Untrained ears might shrivel in terror, but those who appreciate the joy of noise will recognise the sound of veteran masters on unassailable form.
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Jan 27, 2015Apex Predator - Easy Meat retains the hyperactive energy and deadly pacing of its recent predecessors, and as a result, it gives their fans a diverse and devastating listening experience during what is a quintessential, zeitgeist-destroying grindcore album.
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The WireMar 4, 2015So here they are in 2015 with Apex Predator sounding as powerful and uncompromising as their debut. [Feb 2015, p.55]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 43 out of 58
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Mixed: 6 out of 58
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Negative: 9 out of 58
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