Miliband performs extreme heavy metal ‘grimecore’ singing on radio
Former Labour leader Ed Miliband performed his best extreme death metal singing as he discussed “grimecore” and why the genre is more than “a bunch of noise” with the lead singer of band Napalm Death.
Mr Miliband, who is sitting in for Jeremy Vine on his BBC Radio 2 show, was joined in the studio by Barney Greenway, who told him his attempt to sing in the extreme metal style needed “definitely more throat”.
Mr Miliband played clips from bands including Morbid Angel and Wormrot before asking Mr Greenway to tell critics why they are wrong to think the genre of music is just “noise”.
Mr Miliband questioned Greenway about the kind of extreme metal Napalm Death performs, known as Grimcore, before asking him the inspiration behind the band’s Silence Is Deafening, the shortest song in the record books.
After he played the four words that make up the track, the politician said: “Yeah, well you can sort of hear it.”
He continued: “I’m now going to take my career into my hands, if it isn’t already down the pan, and you’re going to try to help me do a bit of this extreme metal.”
After Miliband made two attempts to sing, Greenway replied: “I don’t know how to get that going.”