Napalm Death have announced that “due to unforeseen personal obligations”, vocalist Mark "Barney" Greenway will be forced to miss the band's upcoming shows in Italy and Switzerland.

Says the band: “Barney will have to return to the UK tomorrow on the 17th until the 19th of November, unfortunately this is unavoidable! Rather than not play those shows in Bologna (Italy, November 17th) and Pratteln (Switzerland, November 19th) we asked our friend Rees from the band Corrupt Moral Altar if he would come over and fill in for Barney for the next two shows - he agreed to go for it and help us out.

“We have been rehearsing a set in soundcheck today for tomorrow’s show and it is sounding brutal and intense and we hope you guys will show him and us your support. Thanks in advance for understanding and see everyone tomorrow.”

Napalm Death and Heaven Shall Burn have teamed up for a very special split 7” EP release. Entitled The Mission Creep, this limited vinyl-only split 7” EP will be released on December 11, via the bands’ longtime label Century Media Records and it will include both an unreleased song by Heaven Shall Burn called “Battle Of Attrition” as well as the unreleased Napalm Death track “An Extract (Strip It Clean)”.

The EP comes packaged with artwork design (Both bands have an A side with own front cover artwork) created by Frode Sylthe (The Haunted, Napalm Death, At The Gates) and is limited to 2,000 copies in the following vinyl versions/colors:

800x Black (CM Mailorder/Distro Europe & North America)

400x Red (CM Mailorder/Distro: Europe & North America)

200x Clear (CM Mailorder Europe)

200x Yellow (Impericon)

200x Blue (Impericon)

200x White (Impericon)

Pre-orders are available at the CM Distro.

Here are comments from both bands about The Mission Creep:

"It is a huge honor for us to be releasing this split 7” EP. It not only is the first 7” in Heaven Shall Burn’s career, but also shared with a band that has been an influence on all levels of our band’s development. Napalm Death have been a constant inspiration and will always remain innovators. We are as happy as young kids, again! Our song ‘Battle Of Attrition’ deals with the happenings on the battlegrounds of Flanders from more than a 100 years ago and the unfortunately repeating tragedies for all Nations, which are misled into devastating war scenarios.“ – Heaven Shall Burn

"Split recordings are a great opportunity to explore something a little different, and with the voice that Heaven Shall Burn have out there in the world, we thought it was a nice route down which to spread our own tentacles of music and ideas. The convergence of ideas between our two bands on the design side of the EP was quite seamless, so as good a meeting of minds as there should be." - Mark 'Barney' Greenway / Napalm Death