Australia's Utopia Records recently caught up with NAPLAM DEATH frontman Barney Greenway. An excerpt from the interview is available below.

Q: How does it feel to hear bands who are half your age without that same fury as yours, or perhaps who are faking it by attempting to channel Napalm Death and not really pulling it off?

Greenway: "Yeah, well mate I don’t like to sit on a pedestal and look down at other bands and say, you know, 'I’m the authority and this is fake and this isn’t.' I don’t think it’s for me to say that. I just think that people should know themselves… I wouldn’t be so arrogant as to place my own judgment on so-called younger bands or whatever, for one. And for two, I’ve never tied age to anything. I really can’t stand it when bands get criticised just because they’ve been around for a certain time, the members might be of a certain age. I think that goes for whoever you’d care to consider. It all depends on your perspective and taste is relative of course, but I’ve heard some pretty awful bands, in my opinion, but that have either just started out or who have been around for 20 years or 30 years, it’s all relative. I’m not going to judge people. I mean, of course my tastes are my tastes and that’s the same way as anybody else’s tastes. I would hate to sort of sit and point the finger at other bands down below, I think that would be really fucking arrogant actually (laughs)."

Q: How do you look back on 20 years of putting that message across, given the worldwide political climate of recent times?

Greenway: "Well, I think again that everything’s relative and different situations and circumstances have come along. Connecting it to the last question you asked me, I myself have definitely contradicted myself throughout the years. I may have given you a different answer if you’d asked me ten years ago and that’s just because over time I sort of refined a certain perspective within myself. And also the actual world circumstances change and situations change, so whether things have got worse or better I don’t think is how people should be looking at things, I think you have to say, 'Well, which things are affecting people at this time?' Obviously there are hundreds of thousands of different situations, millions even. So I think the reason why can’t be answered in a single paragraph of an interview. There are many, many things out there that are affecting people and the world today and the way to deal with them is not easy. But I think we can start by again, actually understanding what it is to be a human being and to not have our natural rights taken away from us."

Go to this location for the complete interview.

As previously reported, Napalm Death are among the latest acts confirmed for Supersonic Festival 2010, taking place October 22nd - 24th in Birmingham, England. The band has also added the following dates to their upcoming live schedule:

November

18 - Bologna, Italy - Estragon
20 - Nimes, France - Xtreme Rakan Fest

December

9 - Leipzig, Germany - Conne Island

The band's complete live itinerary can be found at this location.