Napalm Death bassist Shane Embury has issued the following update regarding his foray into Action Figures:
"As you may or may not know Gargamel a toy company based in Koenji, Tokyo issued a Ltd Edition figure based on yours truly a couple of years ago, well it seems to be a popular figure as its just about to come out in a brand new color - green.
"I have spent a lot of time in Tokyo over the past few years and in doing so met a guy called Dennis who, like me, was totally into toys and old school hardcore punk. We became great friends. He introduced me to they guys at Gargamel who are big fan of Napalm Death and we started talking about doing a figure together. It seemed a crazy idea at the time but something that for me was very exciting.
"Obviously we wanted to tie the figure in with all the other Gargamel figures so there would be a general concept but the head design was based on some earlier pictures of me with the crazy frizzy hair, also live I guess I make some pretty weird faces so that combined with the hair made up the head sculpture as were keen to keep the figure fantasy based also.
"The guys over in Tokyo would email sketches until i said 'that's the one', but it came together really quickly and I am pretty honored to have a toy figure made after me, that kind of thing doesn't happen to you every day.
"It would be great to do one of the other guys next!"
As previously reported, Napalm Death have recently released their cover of The Offender's classic 'Face Down In The Dirt' at this location to honour the recent passing of former bassist Mikey "Offender" Donaldson.
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