Band Name: Napalm Death
Music Album: The Complete Radio One Sessions
Album Release Date: November 2024
Music Genre: Rock Grindcore
Record Label: Strange Fruit
Album Release Country: United Kingdom
Music Record Type: 16 Tracks CD
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 (...)
| Peel Session 13 September 1987 | ||
| 1 | The Kill / Prison Without Walls / Dead Part 1 | 0:57 |
| 2 | Deceiver / Lucid Fairytale / In Extremis | 1:50 |
| 3 | Blind To The Truth / Negative Approach / Common Enemy | 1:06 |
| 4 | Obstinate Direction / Life / You Suffer | 1:50 |
| Peel Session 8 March 1988 | ||
| 5 | Multi-National Corporations / Instinct Of Survival / Stigmatised / Parasites | 4:10 |
| 6 | Moral Crusade / Worlds Apart / M.A.D. | 3:39 |
| 7 | Divine Death / C.S. / Control | 3:22 |
| 8 | Walls / Raging In Hell / Conform Or Die / S.O.B. | 3:18 |
| Peel Session 12 August 1990 | ||
| 9 | Unchallenged Hate / Murdered Mentally | 4:02 |
| 10 | From Enslavement To Obliteration / Suffer The Children | 5:44 |
| 11 | Retreat To Nowhere / Scum | 2:54 |
| 12 | Deceiver / Social Sterility | 1:44 |
| Radio 1 Friday Rock Show March 1996 | ||
| 13 | Glimpse Into Genocide | 2:55 |
| 14 | Greed Killing | 2:51 |
| 15 | My Own Worst Enemy | 3:28 |
| 16 | Anti-Body | 2:48 |
Total time: 47:06
This release compiles their three Peel Sessions and a recording for the Friday Rock Show on Radio One.
On Track 8 "Walls" is originally by Siege, "Raging In Hell", "Conform Or Die" and "S.O.B." are originally by S.O.B. ("Conform Or Die" is actually called "Fuck Or Die" and was probably changed for the radio).
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This compilation: ℗ & © 2000 Strange Fruit.
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