Napalm

Napalm is a hardcore dance group associated with Patric Catani, Martin Damm and Claudius Debold. The name also appears in connection with several other acts, including a Japanese hardcore punk band, a thrash metal group from New York, a Hamburg punk band, a French black metal band and an American rapper, but this entry refers to the hardcore dance act.

Style and activity

The group is identified with hardcore techno and speedcore, and the Napalm name is used for anonymous releases by artists such as BC Kid, Claudius and The Speed Freak. In practice, it functions as an umbrella name for material issued under that label identity rather than as a conventional single-artist project.

Related acts

The Napalm name is also used for a Japanese noisy hardcore punk band that plays from 1984 to 1986; a New York thrash trio that begins as Combat and releases a self-titled EP in the Combat Records Bootcamp series before issuing Cruel Tranquility in 1989 and Zero To Black in 1990; and a Hamburg punk band that issues two 7-inch records, is active in the early 1980s, reunites for a show in 2010 and plays several European gigs in 2011.

Notable connections

The New York thrash band later sees Chris Liggio, also known as Krztoff, and guitarist Jeff Lombardi go on to form the industrial metal group Bile with E-X-E bassist R.H. Bear. The rapper Anthony Stanton also uses Napalm as a professional name and is known for work with Dana “Rockwilder” Stinson, with the track “Crooked Cop” appearing on the soundtrack album for Training Day.