COMBAT – Napalm Sticks To Everything 2x CD

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So this is essentially the mid-late 80s thrash band NAPALM before they took that name, along with a full album’s worth of newer material. It’s unclear whether on the new stuff it’s Combat or Napalm we’re dealing with, fuck knows! Anyway, usually this would be my cue to say “sack the CD of new stuff, go straight to the demos”, but actually the new stuff is good! In fact if this was a new band I’d be singing their praises saying something like “these guys sound like they came straight out of ’87 New York”…..well, these guy did, and haven’t diluted their sound at all! The second disc is of live and 80s demo stuff and the sound is rough as fuck but totally listenable. Napalm are one of those total meat and potatoes bands that anyone except a real thrash afficianado will probably have ignored, but I’d strongly recommend giving them a shot. You cannae just sit listening to those same three Slayer records all yer life can you?