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Napalm Death: Tiny Desk Concert

NPR Music · Jul 15, 2026 · published to YouTube

Lars Gotrich | July 15, 2026 Just feet away from where NPR Music staffers write and edit stories, a swirl of black t-shirts and battle jackets opened up a small circle pit. The absurdity of the moment was not lost on us, but the smirks on the masses gathered to see an English metal band tear up NPR's office carpet kept the momentum appropriately (but respectfully) chaotic. Napalm Death's ongoing campaign for musical destruction had come to the Tiny Desk. For more than 40 years, noise has not only been a central tenet of Napalm Death's caustic sound, but has also served as an ear-splitting advocacy for human dignity. In the 1980s, an early version of the band created grindcore, which amped up the intensity of metal and hardcore to make something far more extreme. In these songs, often short and always ferocious, the pain of oppression is reflected in the sonic assault, but the shrieks an

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