Napalm Death – Time Waits For Now Slave Review And Tour Dates

February 2, 2009 by Scott

MetalUnderground announced a few tour dates for Grindcore Pioneers, Napalm Death as they tour in support of their upcoming album, Time Waits For No Slave. They’ll be touring with Kataklysm, Toxic Holocaust, Abigail Williams and Trap Them.

Time Waits For No Slave comes out on February 10th on Century Media. I’ve had a chance to listen to the album and it’s a great, modern Napalm Death album. A quick review and tour dates after the fold.

Time Waits For No Slave is a great example of the Grindcore genre. Right from the beginning with Strongarm, it has that punk element to it that makes grindcore what it is. Fast and relentless, yet structured. On The Brink Of Extinction is a great chugging-riffed, plus triplets that should have the pits ablaze and shows the new crowd that you don’t have to have hammer on taps and pulls off every two seconds to make a modern “extreme metal” song. The title track, Time Waits For No Slave has a really cool lead riff that continues throughout most of the song and is easy to get hooked on with Barney’s mouth full of marbles vocals and semi-clean chorus (NOT like a metalcore clean vocal). With 28 years and 14 albums, these guys can still churn out the metal fury and show the new generation of deah/metalcore that THIS is how you make a metal album that will be remembered next year. I don’t have many Napalm Death albums, but this is surely bringing me back to the ones I have (Diatribes, Inside And Torn Apart and Utopia Banished).

Napalm Death Confirmed Tour Dates