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Napalm Death - Hatred Surge
Copyright © 1984 Napalm Death
1. What man can do
2. Instinct of survival
3. Abbatoir
4. Control
5. Sacrificed
6. So sad
7. Caught in a dream
8. Private death
9. Cheswick Green (live)
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Early work from Napalm Death shows many of the influences that shaped this band bleeding through in the interstices of these rickety, doctrinal rages of a handful of basic riffs and two rhythms thrown together in casual but strident song. The most intense influences here are alternating Discharge and Siege, the former in rising minor melodies of three notes and evenly paced trajectories through traversal of harmonic space in whole intervals, and the latter in ungainly and grimly grinding passages where rhythm and phrase collaborate to form an unsteady, ambiguously-constructed worldview. Droning interludes craft intercourse between simple melodies to produce a mood of suspended sadness which diverges into frustrated anger. Songs are longer than most of what made it to the first album and rely more on atmosphere than the over-the-top emphasis, yet are constructed in more traditional modes of punk, making something with less novelty of style than later Napalm Death but somehow more compelling content.
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