Napalm Death - BBC2 Arena Documentary (1989)

[@griselame]

It's amazing to think how many bands were formed or joined by former members of Napalm Death...

[@awrygargoyle]

Endless. I've been compiling them, and it never ends

[@jessestrobel2]

​@@awrygargoyle Justin Broadrick - Godflesh, Jesu Mick Harris - Scorn, Painkiller, Equations Of Eternity Nik Bullen - Scorn Lee Dorian - Cathedral Bill Steer - Carcass, Firebird Shane Embury - Unseen Terror Mitch Harris - Righteous Pigs Jesse Pintado - Terrorizer, Lock Up Mark Greenway - Benediction Most of them. Each pretty good. Favs are Scorn, EoE and Godflesh.

[@VuotoPneumaNN]

@@jessestrobel2 Justin Broadrick: Godflesh, Techno Animal, Final, The Curse Of The Golden Vampire, JK Flesh, Tech Level 2, The Sidewinder, ICE, Greymachine, Jesu, Krackhead… And there’s a ton more.

[@VuotoPneumaNN]

@@jessestrobel2Mick Harris: Scorn, Painkiller, Lull, Fret, Murder Ballads, Quoit, Praxis, Equations Of Eternity…

[@jessestrobel2]

@@VuotoPneumaNN Oh yeah, bigtime. Was sticking to the major ones, but yes I should've put Techno Animal in there. I really dig 'God', Justin and Kevin Martin's first collaborative thing

[@darrenburke9630]

The drums are unbelievable

[@gb9884]

This would have been awesome to see live, so raw and a great line up. I hope everyone there realised how lucky they were.

[@jimmytgoose476]

I saw them a load of times in the 80s . They were usually pants .

[@colinmackenzie6277]

😊 Seen Carcass live , with Bill Steer....got a Doc Martin in the head for my trouble, but sorted!!!!

[@colinmackenzie6277]

Seen Bill Steer with Carcass....needless to say, S#!+ got LIT!!!! 😂

[@CaropBec]

Man, this takes me back. I remember seeing it on TV as a 14-year-old. Napalm Death, Elvira, and Another Green World makes for a deadly combo (although I didn't get into Eno till much later). Sabbath, Slayer, Megadeth, and Maiden were in there too I believe. Heavy Metal heaven!

[@filled_soda]

I recorded it on VHS and almost wore the tape out.

[@glenbrucecostello4464]

I seem to remember Heavy Metal Heven being on over the Xmas period , at least that's how I remember it , so long ago now. Don't thick it was ever repeated to my knowledge.86,87 ish ..

[@graemestroud2768]

Incredible band .I was at this gig and can be seen stage diving Happy days!

[@92GreyBlue]

What part.?

[@Unitedfruitco]

I loved Lee Dorian’s vocals!!

[@maybury78]

Ha, great, my mum recorded this documentary for me when I was 11, I used to watch it loads! Thanks for the upload

[@Paddyllfixit]

I recorded this on VHS when it was shown. Still got it. :-)

[@danvincent2600]

I saw them in swansea 1995. Not sure when lee dorrian left though. God was it LOUD !

[@CaropBec]

@@danvincent2600 Lee had left and formed Cathedral before the 80s ended. Barney joined in 1989 for the Grindcrusher tour, I believe. First saw them in 1994 with Entombed supporting, great night! Caught them a few times since, including Hellfest in France when Dorrian joined them on stage for a few songs (Cathedral were also playing).

[@zzzaaa0990]

As far as I am concerned,the first 2 Napalm Death albums are the most extreme albums I have ever heard,total insanity.

[@1980extremeG]

Agree. I listen to loads of metal and punk, literally loads of extreme bands, but there is simply nothing out there that can match the velocity of those first 2 Napalm albums!

[@childrenoftheabzu]

I like mentally murdered the best from the 2nd old line up

[@Martaine70]

@@childrenoftheabzu That was the absolute peak

[@childrenoftheabzu]

@@Martaine70 It sounds like Carcass with lee on vocals

[@TheFierceAndTheDead]

must have watched this 100 times when I was a kid

[@sternchild]

I hope at some point we can get an HD remaster of this, that concert footage brought up to scratch would be crazy

[@rogerlegends166]

Yes this music really needs ultra high fidelity

[@jimmytgoose476]

Music ? Hi fidelity ?!! 🤣🤣

[@dimifisher]

I love all line ups, Napalm for life ✌️

[@paultierney6038]

Can't believe I used to go orienteering with these guys

[@bugsybielby]

sweet reference

[@johntorrington2672]

They love stamp collecting.

[@jimmytgoose476]

Sure about that ?

[@peggs1]

Did Stewart Lee pinch your crisps👌

[@marc3d]

orient?

[@owenfitzgerald3219]

Back when Earache had good bands on the label compared to the shite that's on it now. Napalm Death are legendary. This was a great line up and time for the band, raw and brutally powerful.

[@albertmurga]

No fkn kidding !! I just ordered Left Hand Path from there and saw all the garbage they have now !!

[@mb5051]

If you somehow ended up in the metal genre, be happy, you're among friends.

[@marcelodemetrio7051]

Best ND formation for me.

[@InfiniteSunLuciferDLarynx]

I agree. All that personality translated well in this era. I hang on until Mick left, but this was the best lineup by far.

[@miagifodder5599]

Barny is the tits

[@WelshIron]

Filmed in Micks bedroom. I grew up with these legends

[@zamiadams4343]

Seem them in Glasgow with this line-up around this time, it was my first gig, blew my mind.

[@robertpetre9378]

I once went to HMV and said to the assistant at the check out do you have anything by obscure death metal band and the guy looked at me in confusion and when I said “anything by Napalm Death” and he said “yeah yeah of course we know Napalm Death everyone and their Gran knows Napalm Death”. Lol.

[@FleshXHoarder74]

I am thankful this was filmed. It is a national treasure.

[@welldoitlive.]

Everyone here seems so serious, cue Mick Harris “Don’t think you can sing any other way can ya?”

[@DamonMacready]

When I was a teen I learned all the songs from Scum on guitar. I'm still amazed by the chord progressions in their songs. So musical and original. No exaggerated cheap use of the tritone, just really fucking heavy and smart. Luckily I got to play a gig warming up for them in 1989. Awesome day, very cool people!

[@somethingsomething9008]

Those songs are not hard to play at all

[@maxmordon7295]

@@somethingsomething9008 Yeah, sure, your mother and my father could record and upload covers of them to this website whenever they want to...

[@edgaracosta-q5m]

@@somethingsomething9008 yeah but go and create them

[@adamkwiecien5489]

This is how magic sounds.

[@Default_Seraphim]

I've seen them live twice, Both times the Melvin's opened for em.

[@edybocman76]

that creazy

[@lanapearce9968]

My favourite ND lineup, though I love ND through the years!

[@rushayaesp]

Nothing tops this era of Napalm. If only the entire gig was up somewhere..

[@eyesrightout]

L to R: Shane Embury, Mick Harris, Lee Dorrian, Bill Steer

[@blakkat66]

Shane Embury never speaks xD

[@christschinwon]

@@blakkat66 with that hair style he doesn't need to!

[@infinidominion]

I imagine him sounding like Buzz ...just British

[@coprovangelist262]

easily their best line-up

[@gustavoautran]

undoubtedly

[@cristianx.476]

@@gustavoautran Definitly bro.

[@larryphillipsjr.1607]

Helllllll Nooooo 🤣

[@steemonkey2000]

How can it be their best line up when Enemy of the Music Business is their best album?

[@cristianx.476]

@@steemonkey2000 Nope ,Lee,mick ,bill and shane ruless!!

[@azeiras]

I remember back then napalm death, terrorizer, morbid angel , carcass, were the most insane sound i ever heard that day..

[@colinmackenzie6277]

The Halcyon Era of Earache.... Look for the Electro Hippies, Concrete Sox, Carcass... These bands SMASHED THRASH METAL!!!

[@centralvinilo4889]

LA MEJOR FORMACION DE NAPALM DEATH ....VERDADERA PASION Y MUY CINSEROS EN SU MUSICA....ME EMOCIONA ESTE DOCUMENTAL.

[@832wew]

Bill Steer- Carcass!!! Lee Dorrian- Cathedral!!!

[@edwardglenn9310]

I once stage dived at a Napalm Death gig. I put my foot on the monitor to dive off but the monitor tilted and I fell on the stage. The song came to an end with me lying on the stage. I stood up with the feeling of being a reeet bellend.

[@jimmytgoose476]

I bumped into Lee near Pool Meadow when they were preparing to record FETO . "Are you going to pronounce the words this time?" "Hahaha maybe... " True story 😃

[@whereweregoingwedontneedey4374]

I remember this show from as a kid. Fantastic

[@thesedgeman9863]

peel sessions - say no more

[@jimmytgoose476]

👜💩🤣

[@kryptichands968]

The bass sonds like two ships crashing....epic !!!!

[@wahyuadhi3162]

The best from Napalm Dead.. I miss you lee dorrian

[@jimmytgoose476]

He went on to do 20 or so years with a band that was infinitely superior .

[@DáblioVê]

Favorite band/line up... ❤

[@ricardojosearruda8052]

Lee dorian Bill steer Mick harris Shane *1988 formation of the álbum "from enslavement to obliteration"

[@shanecopher9175]

Brutal Power ❤thx for steamrolling me through any and all adversity

[@ActAccordinglyNow]

It’s crazy how the best lineup only lasted 2 years.

[@jimmytgoose476]

Best ?!!

[@zeroGdh]

Harris, Embury, Steer, Dorrian... my favourite era

[@elzbietasomska7256]

​@@zeroGdhlee has better vocals than barney

[@zeroGdh]

@@elzbietasomska7256 Lee Dorrian is just so much cooler

[@hkja99]

Legendary lineup

[@edgaracosta-q5m]

7:24 the dude whit dreads is really into it

[@Toto-dd4hj]

This is Napalm Death.

[@chrisjaviers2041]

Is crazy how then they see the drummer like nothing and he was the main guy since the beginning

[@jimmytgoose476]

Strange you should say that ; Harris wasnt there in the beginning.

[@edgaracosta-q5m]

@@jimmytgoose476 yeah but that was the early era , he was in the whole important time in the band

[@jdkaninos9576]

La mejor época y. Formación fué en esos días verdadero grind core....

[@triptamin]

Bill Steer is the man , huge fan of Scorn too, these guys are special ...

[@CaropBec]

Saw Scorn at Dekmantel festival last year. As a ND fan since 1989, it was a special moment to finally see Mick live!

[@raquellethicia5894]

Amazing

[@andyodubhshlain7846]

07:16 “there’s still bits of discharge in our music now”😂

[@cortarelva]

Little did they Knew that they would be spawning two of the most influential bands in extreme metal history. And Cathedral.

[@matr5]

The heaviest bass sound ever!

[@richmoreno9938]

Yeah, so heavy that you can’t even understand/hear the notes. 🥴

[@jimmytgoose476]

Fart noises . Great .

[@mattcole6230]

​@@jimmytgoose476heavy, that's how it should sound

[@mattcole6230]

​@@richmoreno9938heavy, that's how it should sound

[@jimmytgoose476]

Not heavy ; just shite . Kyuss and Godflesh were heavy . Dub reggae is heavy . Fart noises are just fart noises .

[@xwing1977]

Pioneers! Best line-up, with Mentally Murdered EP setting the bar very high! I like Barney Greenway (great vocalist) - but this is SO BRUTAL - Brilliant!!!!!

[@falco148]

Was just listening to Scum & FETO tonight. So awesome!

[@AngelEarth2011]

I saw them live in 1990 :)

[@pabloumar699]

last man standing shane..and goodluck for mike, bill/carcass/firebird and lee/cathedral..peace love from malaysia..

[@andrewbuchanan2338]

Miss the old days man times are so shit now

[@teetoys76]

sick ending 😅

[@METALLiCMETALLEr]

And that girl is featured in the simpsons haha, didn't know till now

[@Jack_Rivet]

Surprise Elvira at the end. Also: Is that Barney in the front row at about 6:46?

[@allyhewitt1300]

The gateway drug of grindcore. A band that also spawned Carcass, Cathedral, Godflesh and Scorn, some of the most influential bands in history. And proudly brummie!

[@azeiras]

You are forgoting terrorizer

[@janig3068]

New line up since -86 without founder member Nicholas Bullen. Even -86-87 line up changed entirely until Shane came in . Now he's only member in the band from 80's.

[@iachtulhu1420]

Technically, Barney is also from like 1989 in Napalm.

[@rob550]

Man I'd be stoked if Elvira roasted my band.

[@hesher10]

Damn!!!!!! bill 🔥🔥🔥

[@edersoncarvalhocoelho7967]

Classic 🇬🇧

[@chriswilkinson7636]

Before I heard Napalm death i had no idea that extreme metal existed. Iron Maiden were the heaviest of the heavy for me at the time. I didn't really "get" Napalm death at first, lets put it that way 😂😂

[@1santos1]

@13:40 Some guy taking photos is wearing a WATCH TOWER t-shirt!

[@teetoys76]

all those cookie cutter bree bree bands wish they were this kool .

[@jimmytgoose476]

Bree bree ?

[@Trainy2]

This does not sound like 80's music. This is like 10 years ahead of it's time.

[@uv77mc85]

When this was on TV in 89 a lot of Brits thought this was a comedy sketch and they weren't a real band.

[@chrisjaviers2041]

One wwnt to cathedral and the other to carcass, the bass is quiet, he still rocking beyond..

[@CaropBec]

Bill Steer was in Carcass before Napalm Death, I guess ND was more of a 'side project' for him in comparison, since he only played with them a couple of years.

[@adamrawlings5614]

Think this programme got me into the whole extreme metal / grindcore scene back then

[@NrdGamr-mq7gs]

Thanks by Jim carrey i know where thrash to Death Metal was really coming from 💀🤟🖤🤘.

[@davesaunders59]

Many years ago any new member joining my team were forced to watch this on a night shift.

[@dimifisher]

What kind of team was that?

[@marcusphoenixish]

@@dimifisher The fucking A team dude 🤘

[@viktorsomogyi3116]

🔥🔥🔥

[@GiveUsMusic]

“We couldn’t just hire Joey Belladonna to do vocals on the album, it just wouldn’t work.”

[@mrgvila]

Bruh once hearing that and his other interviews Steer gives no fuck he'll say whats on his mind

[@cowbutt6]

19 years later, Napalm Death hire Anneke van Giersbergen: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g6iZi3mnZaeJqqc#t=1m57s

[@richardcrook2112]

They might have ended up sound like Dragonforce.

[@jimmytgoose476]

"....so we'll have monkey noises instead...." 🤣

[@mattcole6230]

​@jimmytgoose476 so you don't like them, who cares...

[@MrManovelho85]

8:11 guy is going to use heroin lol!!!

[@Narshredder]

Holy shit hahaha

[@johnhartmann5875]

Sure not!!!

[@guitarbombdotcom]

I was at this gig!

[@larryphillipsjr.1607]

😲

[@InGrindWeTrust85]

Nice!!

[@deepzeliade-dk8uo]

'little bits of discharge in our music now', and no one laughed...

[@Paddyllfixit]

.......then along came World Downfall

[@msw0322]

I absolutely love that album!

[@Anygodwilldo]

Someoene actually decided to edit in a shot of garden gnomes :-D

[@miagifodder5599]

That is one sassy mama at the end

[@dethdai447]

Elvira Mistress of the Dark

[@Dubliner812]

I taped this documentary in 1989 when BBC2 showed it but I never seen this before. Is there an extended version of the BBC2 Arena Heavy Metal?

[@VelaCorpse]

Fucking rules!

[@jonbovi5991]

im not going to work today..so fucking what!

[@chucklessavini1778]

Where's the bit where they're watching Rhodes getting ripped in half in Day of the Dead? :)

[@CaropBec]

Is that Barney stagediving at 2:15 ?

[@Environmental-Time]

barney wasn’t in the band back then

[@CaropBec]

@Phantom-lord420 yeah, I meant as one of the crowd. Looks quite like him!

[@Environmental-Time]

@@CaropBec oh

[@michaelperry6641]

🤘🤬🤘

[@colshythecomedian]

I was just looking for ABbA song

[@scottcharney1091]

Wait, didn't they play "You Suffer" at this show? I see it separately elsewhere.

[@m4sh666]

You probably just blinked and missed it 😂

[@thezztop666]

Fucking brutal!!! \,,/

[@spass-macht-frei]

12:38 - 13:24 the best part of this shit.

[@thedude-jb7wx]

started with sabath playing the tri tone which is based of the HARMONIC MINOR SCALE. YOU WANNA PLAY METAL LEARN THE HARMONIC MINOR SCALE. You got Phygian of couse and adding chromatic notes. Say uyr playing Gmajor take the E minor then make the 3 chord b minor and turn it into b major and slide up to the 4 chord which is c major. thats all it is with laymans term then find the noters that sound dark or cool. When you know music theory you can get back to cool places. Like if you go for a drive you will bump into some cool spots and understand ho to get back there. If you like driving blind and staying lost dont learn theory. Its really fn easy just keep that in mind

[@StratsRUs]

It is worth learning theory but also great to just play in bands with people and not judge them on theory.

[@thedude-jb7wx]

@@StratsRUs if the music is good it doesnt matter. I just cant do something if i feel i dont know a lot of directions to go

[@bustedfender]

Just back from orienteering with Stewart Lee I expect.

[@ukaszczeli6046]

My grandma loves it and I listen to this before getting to sleep. So calming, and transcendent.

[@cristinesalisbury63]

Jumpin up n down for the BISCUITS!!!!!!!WOOOOF!!!!

[@richardcrook2112]

Hah hah. He sounds like my dad used to sound, yelling at me to turn it off.

[@awrygargoyle]

I love the fact that they speak about political and social lyrics (specially) about Sexism and they end with Elvira ahahahahahah

[@kkkkkdsable]

リードリアン見てるととっつぁんに動きがそっくりだな

[@richmoreno9938]

Here’s the problem for me; I can’t make out the fuckin guitar riffs. I don’t know if it’s due to too much distortion or what, but if I can’t can’t hear the riffs, it’s pointless. All I hear is drums and growling. There’s lots of other doom sounding bands where you can hear the riffs loud and clear. Same issue on Napalm Death - ‘From Enslavement To Obliteration’ LP. You can’t hear the fuckin riffs.

[@bigchops2]

Welcome to grindcore

[@jimmytgoose476]

Yup . That was the punk sound for far too many gigs in the 80s - all vocals and drums, no guitar or bass . Bag o shite . Then some bands made actual recordings like that ..ffs . ND's Peel session and most of FETO are unlistenable crap . Mentally Murdered was so much better . The live EP RISE OO1 was actually pretty good too but they rarely sounded like that live .

[@guypearce8487]

Pickup 'The Peel Sessions' to hear their early material recorded by BBC sound engineers. Lovely stuff.

[@tocadosratosrecords9032]

You have to trained your ears dude! Come on! not even in the album?! You're a deaf? The riffs are there! Listen to noisecore and you see the diference.

[@jay-ci3lc]

I'm si glad barney came and made napalm death who they are today

[@spiroseconomides1752]

Edbury looks like avoiding coke or he was ready to sleep...

[@albertmurga]

jay 99 Dorian > Barney

[@edybocman76]

a joke ?

[@cristianx.476]

Lee Dorrian is best singer of Napalm death ever! ;)

[@coldvoid]

@@albertmurga 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@bertrandg.765]

Ouaiii

[@jono12121201]

Lol.....🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣