Resentment Is Always Seismic – A Final Throw of Throes

Resentment Is Always Seismic – A Final Throw of Throes is the mini-album Napalm Death released through Century Media on 11 February 2022: eight tracks lasting 29 minutes. It was announced as a partner record to Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism (2020), and all of it was recorded in the sessions for that album. Barney Greenway said the band had long wanted to put out a mini-album the way the old punk bands did, and that even after the album's bonus tracks they still had enough strong songs to fill one. The band and the label both presented it as a mini-album. The opener, "Narcissus", was released as the first taste of the record when it was announced in December 2021. Greenway wrote it at a time when the alt-right was at its most visible, and aimed it at the vanity and the personality cult around that movement. Two of the songs are covers: "People Pie" by the industrial noise-rock band Slab!, which Greenway said made the band really stretch themselves, and Bad Brains' "Don't Need It". The closing title track, subtitled "Dark Sky Burial Dirge", is a remix by Shane Embury under his Dark Sky Burial name, which he and the producer Russ Russell built together. The idea was Embury's, and Greenway went along with it gladly, as something in the line of the dark soundscapes of acts such as Coil that the two of them have always shared a love of. Russell recorded, produced, mixed and mastered the first seven tracks at Parlour Studios. Besides Greenway, Embury and Danny Herrera, the credits list both Mitch Harris and John Cooke on guitar, and the artwork is again by Frode Sylthe. The record was issued as a limited CD digipak (Century Media 19439952292), on vinyl and digitally, and in the UK it reached number 11 on the Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart and number 87 on the Official Physical Albums Chart.