Grindcore pioneers NAPALM DEATH are set to make their return to North America at the end of the month joining up with DEVILDRIVER, WALLS OF JERICHO, 36 CRAZYFISTS and INVITRO for the Bound By The Road tour. The massive six week plus trek kicks off on February 27th and will mark the end of the Smear Campaign touring cycle. Be sure to visit www.myspace.com/napalmdeath to view their complete touring schedule.

Barney Greenway (vocals) recently conducted an in-depth and introspective interview with MTV’s Headbangers Ball Blog Podcast. During the interview, the frontman talked about the history of grindcore, the dangers of organized religion, the follow-up to Smear Campaign, the way bands that break up get more credit than those that stick around and his thoughts on their upcoming tour with DevilDriver and Walls of Jericho. Click here to check it out.

Greenway further states: “With so many tours under the belt now, I am wary of rolling out the tired out ‘it will be awesome to see you all again’ stuff. But it will be, all the same. Shit, there I go. I really haven’t had much room/time to breathe in any particular direction since we were last in the US and here we are again preparing to come back with DevilDriver. I think we’ll be bringing back ‘Greed Killing’ and ‘Necessary Evil’ (well, that’s the plan at this point) and otherwise it’s going to be breathless, fast, heavy and spontaneous.

“The setlist will feature some Scum stuff to Smear Campaign and something of everything else – all in a pleasant 45-minute package. Yummy! Otherwise, we are finally discussing and planning the nucleus of the next album. Don’t have any finished songs yet and not really any lyrics that I want to mention – in case they end up not being used. If this all sounds vague, it doesn’t mean that we won’t have an album ready to go by August. We don’t fuck around when the prospect of progress dawns. I did get a tiny sneak listen of one or two of Shane’s songs he’s working on – and they are crazy chaotic-fast-hardcore-mongous. I think we may also further develop the Swans-esque/avant garde angle a little more too in places. We shall see and we hope to see you all soon.”

After celebrating its 25th anniversary, the band’s goals still remain the same: to outlast every trend; to never compromise; to provide a political voice for the voiceless; and to create the most brutal, challenging music on earth.