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Favorite Films: Napalm Death’s Shane Embury Picks ‘2001,’ ‘Inception,’ ‘Forbidden Planet’

Posted in Favorite Films, Features, Interviews with tags 2001, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Forbidden Planet, Hammer Horror, Heredity, Inception, Napalm Death, Rosemary's Baby, Shane Embury, The Beyond on 12/13/2025 by Kurt Orzeck

Napalm Death bassist Shane Embury isn’t one to sit on his laurels – even if they’re extreme-metal laurels. Even though he’s played bass and backing vocals for the grindcore legends since 1987 (man, is that hard to believe), he’s also dallying with his side project Dark Sky Burial, whose new album, The Secred Neurotic, which dropped yesterday via Consouling Sounds.

We’ll have plenty to discuss about that project in the near future, but since it’s Saturday, we found it fitting to roll out a new edition of Favorite Films, in which musicians talk about the best movies they’ve ever seen and recommend some cult classics unfamiliar to most of us.

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Napalm Death Bassist Shane Embury Lovingly Reminisces About At the Gates’ Tomas Lindberg

Posted in Interviews with tags At the Gates, Napalm Death, Shane Embury, Tomas Lindberg on 11/19/2025 by Kurt Orzeck

Among the long list of musicians who sadly passed away this year, one in particular who has not received as widespread a tribute as he deserved is At the Gates frontman Tomas Lindberg. Kind-hearted, philosophical and unparalleled in his vocal strength, one of the men behind perhaps the most influential melodic death-metal record of all time – Slaughter of the Soul – is sorely missed by those who knew him, had the good fortune of speaking with him or were even lucky enough to shake his hand. (We can attest to that fact, having interviewed Lindberg in July 2024.)

The Bad Penny recently brought you reflections on Lindberg’s life, friendship to his peers and towering importance in the metal community from Moonspell vocalist Fernando Riberio, and ex-Amon Amarth drummer and current Fimbul Winter lead guitarist Fredrik Andersson. Today we bring you another loving tribute to Gothenburg, Sweden’s fallen hero courtesy of Shame Embury, bassist for Napalm Death and mastermind of his own project Dark Sky Burial. (Expect to hear more about the latter band ’round these parts in the near future).

Here is what Embury told The Bad Penny about Lindberg in an interview conducted yesterday:

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