September 16, 1988 - The Curse

On the same day as their last release, and physically released with the album "From Enslavement To Obliteration", Napalm Death included a bonus EP called "The Curse" on September 16, 1988. It's only just over five minutes long and the title track is over three of those five minutes!

The EP kicks off with the title track "The Curse" and it's driven by some super slow and loud guitars and bass with Mick Harris adding some cool slow drums as well. It sounds like a cannon is being fired on slow repeat as well and this song is very atypical for Napalm Death with it's super, super slow pace and no vocals! The final minute is just the cannon with no more music and it's honestly a pretty boring song. Up next is "Musclehead" and it's much more typical at just 50 seconds long and the grindcore style we're used to! Lee Dorrian is screaming his head off in a very high voice and I love how long he holds the final scream of the song, he sounds so heavy! Track 3 is "Your Achievement?" and it's a mere 6 seconds long! It's your typical madness for 6 seconds then it's suddenly over! The next track outdoes it by a second with the 5 second long "Dead" and it's just Dorrian holding one scream of "dead!", which makes it a pretty heavy and cool 5 seconds! The last song on this very short EP is "Morbid Deceiver" and it's a re-imagining of the song "Deceiver" off of "Scum"! It opens with some feedback and static-y effects that sound pretty crazy, then they race through a louder but pretty much same version of last year's song.

That is the end of "The Curse" and I thought it was a fun little bonus EP by Napalm Death even though there's not actually a ton of substance. Don't worry, there are more EPs on the way!

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