Napalm Death’s Shane Embury revealed in a series of social media posts that the band is demoing their 17th studio album.
Napalm Death’s Shane Embury has confirmed that the grindcore group are hard at work on their forthcoming 17th studio album.
Embury would share the first teaser earlier this week after posting photos on Instagram which featured himself, touring guitarist John Cooke, and producer Russ Russel at Parlor Studios in Kettering, U.K. The bassist would go on to post a video confirming the band was demoing new material in the studio for a potential follow-up to 2020’s album Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism.
In the caption of the post, Embury would write:
“A couple of successful days guitar blasting on new @theofficialnapalmdeath songs … Tomorrow it’s bass grind time #shanenapalmdeathbook #napalmdeathalbum17 #grindcore #deathmetal #punk @theparlourstudios @discordance668 @russrussell444.”
Last year, Napalm Death released the collaborative album, Savage Imperial Death March, with fellow touring band Melvins. This would be the second mini-LP released by Napalm Death, following 2022’s Resentment Is Always Seismic (A Final Throw of Throes,) which featured material written and recorded at the same time as their 2020 release.
Embury also revealed in an interview with music journalist Joel Gausten that he had been working on his industrial side project, Dark Sky Burial, which released its new album, The Sacred Neurotic, on January 1, 2026.
In his interview, Embury would call the creative process an “evolutionary experience,” one that he was thankful for following “years of performing almost the same kind of sets every night”.
Given the immense output from Embury in recent years, it’s hard to complain about the lack of full-length albums from Napalm Death. While nothing’s confirmed, it’d be interesting to see Embury bring a more dedicated industrial sound to Napalm Death following his work on Dark Sky Burial, but until that first single drops, there’s no way of knowing what the Birmingham musician has in mind for their next release.
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