Band Name: Napalm Death
Music Album: Utopia Banished
Album Release Date: November 1992
Music Genre: Rock Grindcore Death Metal
Record Label: Earache
Album Release Country: United States
Music Record Type: 15 Tracks Cassette Album
Formed in Birmingham, UK in 1982, by Nik Bullen. Napalm Death were originally one of the bands that defined the UK hardcore thrash/punk sound of the mid-late 1980s, along with bands such as Extreme Noise Terror, Doom and Sore Throat. The band has gone through countless line-ups and many former members have gone on to become significant figures in a variety of musical scenes.
Although their debut album "Scum" featured members Justin Broadrick (who was also a member of Fall Of Because, the band that later became Godflesh, at the time) and Nik Bullen (later part of Scorn), the first stable line up consisted of Lee Dorrian (vocals), Bill Steer (guitar), Mick Harris (drums) and Shane Embury (bass).
By late 1989, Lee Dorrian, whose vocals epitomised the early Napalm Death sound, had left to form another band (doom metal band Cathedral) and focus on his label Rise Above. Bill Steer also left to concen (...)
| A1 | Discordance |
| A2 | I Abstain |
| A3 | Dementia Access |
| A4 | Christening Of The Blind |
| A5 | The World Keeps Turning |
| A6 | Idiosyncratic |
| A7 | Aryanisms |
| A8 | Cause And Effect (PT. II) |
| B1 | Judicial Slime |
| B2 | Distorting The Medium |
| B3 | Got Time To Kill |
| B4 | Upward And Uninterested |
| B5 | Exile |
| B6 | Awake (To A Life Of Misery) |
| B7 | Contemptuous |
Recorded and mixed on 24 tracks at The Windings, Wrexham, North Wales from 10th - 19th Feb. and 23rd Feb. - 2nd March 1992.
Made in the USA
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