Check out Napalm Death's boundary-breaking performance on NPR’s Tiny Desk

Napalm Death put on a genius performance on NPR’s Tiny Desk and even got a mosh pit going in the broadcaster’s office.

In what’s surely going to be remembered as a landmark moment for extreme music, the grindcore pioneers stopped by for an especially visceral episode of their beloved concert series. Although it’s far from unusual for rock bands to appear on Tiny Desk - Foo Fighters and Mannequin Pussy have done the honours recently, for example - they rarely get as heavy as this.

“We are here to heartily support public access broadcasting,” says Barney Greenway midway through the set. “Unfortunately, it is under attack from all sides in the UK as well as over here and we have to take care of it. It’s precious. It has to be preserved.”

Napalm Death played an eight-song set including Everyday Pox, Amoral and Scum, which concludes with You Suffer, because why the hell not?

“The absurdity of the moment was not lost on us,” reads the video’s description, “but the smirks on the masses gathered to see an English metal band tear up NPR's office carpet kept the momentum appropriately (but respectfully) chaotic.”

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