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i kinda think of grind/death/black metal as instrumental music where the vocalist is another instrument, not like the singer.
napalm's first two albums, scum and from enslavement to obliteration, are so amazing it's crazy, they are but the very first grindcore albums (both in name and approach), the fastest records of their time and some of the most shinning moments in extreme/harsh music.
napalm death started as a crust punk band, their very first appearance on a retail album was on a compilation put out by crass records. their biggest influences are punk bands like discharge, d.r.i., deep wound and die kreuzen.
one other thing; while everything post-enslavement is absolute crap and worthless, that has nothing to do with them not having anyone from the original line-up, because the original line-up never recorded. the first drummer left before they could record and mick harris replaced him, who is the first person to play blastbeats (those triple time drum beats), before that, justin broadrick was actually the second guitarist they tried, and nik buellen was the original bassist and vocalist, but gave up bass to concentrate on singing, with another guy filling in on bass. with this line-up, they recorded the first half of scum. later on, mick harris wanted to reform napalm and nik buellen (who had founded the band) gave him permission to use the name, so he replaced everyone and recorded the rest of scum. they never had an original line-up really.
and so you know, mick harris is the founder, with john zorn, of painkiller.
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