Melvins with Napalm Death - Savage Imperial Death March

After years of shared stages, Melvins and Napalm Death take their long-running affinity to its logical extreme with Savage Imperial Death March — a true collaboration rather than a split. Every track features both bands playing together, locking into a bruising, high-impact exchange that feels as confrontational as it is invigorating.

Napalm Death’s influence on extreme music is impossible to overstate, yet their sound remains stubbornly singular: fast, abrasive, and relentlessly inventive. Decades in, the Birmingham group still push forward with the same urgency and refusal to settle.

Melvins bring their own equally singular legacy. Since forming in the early 1980s, they’ve reshaped the relationship between punk, metal, and experimentation, building a catalogue defined by weight, wit, and total creative independence.

Originally circulating in highly restricted form, Savage Imperial Death March now stands as a fully realised statement — expanded, reworked visually, and positioned as the definitive document of this collaboration. It captures two uncompromising bands meeting head-on, neither yielding an inch.