Napalm Death, Kataklysm & Toxic Holocaust @ Gramercy Theatre, NYC - pics

photos by Justina Villanueva, words by Black Bubblegum

Napalm Death

The Aquarian: What’s the difference in doing a tour like this one with Kataklysm, Trap Them and Abigail Williams –different kinds of bands–as opposed to all grinders?

Barney Greenway of Napalm Death: I think it’s good that it’s a mixed palette. Let’s be honest, for a lot of people that go to gigs, they might not miss it, but do you really want to see almost in some ways a carbon copy of the same thing over and over, even though it might be–depending on your perspective–varying quality within a bill, do you really want to see the same thing over and over? Some people might say yes, but I think for the most part people don’t.

I like doing different stuff. I like differences. Coliseum are on there, and they are really quite different certainly from what we do in a lot of ways, but that’s a good thing. On a personal level, as a music fan, I appreciate differences. It’s nice to have that. I know what I want to do in Napalm, and what I do in Napalm hasn’t changed drastically down the years, what I enjoy doing with Napalm, but that doesn’t mean to say I don’t appreciate other things to complement a bill or whatever. As long as it’s exciting to people, it doesn’t really matter to me what bands are on the bill, really.

Napalm Death headlined an all-star cast of bludgeoners on April 11th at Gramercy Theater in NYC. Kataklysm, Toxic Holocaust, Coliseum and Trap Them primed the crowd with trademark ferocity. The rager of a tour, leads up to Napalm Death and Trap Them’s appearances at Maryland Deathfest.

Another rager of a tour that hits Deathfest… Mayhem with Marduk, Cattle Decapitation, Cephalic Carnage, and Withered hits Irving Plaza on 5/21 with Lair Of The Minotaur also on the NYC bill. Tickets for that are still available.

More pics of Toxic Holocaust, Kataklysm, and Napalm Death (didn’t take pictures of the rest), below…

Toxic Holocaust…

Kataklysm…

Napalm Death…