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Metal Hammer
Metal Hammer
Entertainment
Stephen Hill

"He just couldn’t do it. He had asthma, then he got a throat infection. The whole thing was downhill for him." The bizarre story of how two beloved extreme metal bands suddenly swapped singers...only to swap them straight back again

Barney Greenway screaming on stage.

All metal fans have heard that tedious comment when playing your favourite music to a non-metalhead: “It’s just shouting! Anyone could do that!”

Au contraire, my normie chum! Being a great metal vocalist is hard! So hard in fact, that even some seasoned extreme music singers can’t cope with the rigorous demands. Need proof? Well, let’s go back to late 1996 and the brief and bizarre vocalist swap between two of the underground's most respected bands: Brummie grindcore legends Napalm Death and Suffolk crust-punk heroes Extreme Noise Terror.

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