Fourteen albums in and NAPALM DEATH still remain the leaders of the grindcore / death metal world, once again
showing the upstarts how it's done. “Utilitarian” runs the gamut from straight-ahead violence and force to pure,
undiluted NAPALM DEATH-induced chaos that overall provides a well-rounded bloodletting that's not for the weak
and also confronts the listener with such surprising moments as the sax passages by none other than John Zorn
on ‘Everday Pox’ or choral-like clean sections in ‘Fall On Their Swords’ or ‘Blank Look About Face’. True to the
band’s tradition of spitting gallons of verbal venom, “Utilitarian” is an in-your-face razor-edged platter of social,
cultural and political commentary.