Band Name: Napalm Death
Music Album: From Enslavement To Obliteration + Scum
Album Release Date: July 1988
Music Genre: Rock Thrash Hardcore Grindcore
Record Label: Earache
Album Release Country: United Kingdom
Music Record Type: 54 Tracks All Media CD 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 (...)
| Scum | ||
| 1 | Multinational Corporations | 1:04 |
| 2 | Instinct Of Survival | 2:27 |
| 3 | The Kill | 0:24 |
| 4 | Scum | 2:40 |
| 5 | Caught In A Dream | 1:47 |
| 6 | Polluted Minds | 1:02 |
| 7 | Sacrificed | 1:08 |
| 8 | Siege Of Power | 4:03 |
| 9 | Control | 1:31 |
| 10 | Born On Your Knees | 1:50 |
| 11 | Human Garbage | 1:34 |
| 12 | You Suffer | 0:06 |
| 13 | Life? | 0:41 |
| 14 | Prison Without Walls | 0:36 |
| 15 | Point Of No Return | 0:33 |
| 16 | Negative Approach | 0:31 |
| 17 | Success? | 1:07 |
| 18 | Deceiver | 0:28 |
| 19 | C.S. | 1:13 |
| 20 | Parasites | 0:22 |
| 21 | Pseudo Youth | 0:40 |
| 22 | Divine Death | 1:21 |
| 23 | As The Machine Rolls On | 0:41 |
| 24 | Common Enemy | 0:15 |
| 25 | Moral Crusade | 1:30 |
| 26 | Stigmatized | 1:00 |
| 27 | M.A.D. | 1:33 |
| 28 | Dragnet | 1:01 |
| From Enslavement To Obliteration | ||
| 29 | Evolved As One | 3:13 |
| 30 | It's A M.A.N.S. World! | 0:55 |
| 31 | Lucid Fairytale | 1:04 |
| 32 | Private Death | 0:36 |
| 33 | Impressions | 0:35 |
| 34 | Unchallenged Hate | 2:07 |
| 35 | Uncertainty Blurs The Vision | 0:39 |
| 36 | Cock-Rock Alienation | 1:22 |
| 37 | Retreat To Nowhere | 0:30 |
| 38 | Think For A Minute | 1:44 |
| 39 | Display To Me ... | 2:43 |
| 40 | From Enslavement To Obliteration | 1:37 |
| 41 | Blind To The Truth | 0:22 |
| 42 | Social Sterility | 1:04 |
| 43 | Emotional Suffocation | 1:08 |
| 44 | Practise What You Preach | 1:24 |
| 45 | Inconceivable | 1:07 |
| 46 | Worlds Apart | 1:25 |
| 47 | Obstinate Direction | 1:03 |
| 48 | Mentally Murdered | 2:16 |
| 49 | Sometimes | 1:08 |
| 50 | Make Way! | 1:37 |
| Bonus Tracks | ||
| 51 | Musclehead | 0:51 |
| 52 | Your Achievement? | 0:06 |
| 53 | Dead | 0:05 |
| 54 | Morbid Deceiver | 0:45 |
2 Variations exist of this release:
- One black printed CD label side Napalm Death - From Enslavement To Obliteration + Scum
- One red printed CD label side (This entry)
Contains the 1987 LP "From Enslavement To Obliteration" with bonus 1986 LP "Scum" plus four extra tracks, previously only released on a 7" that came with the first pressing (gatefold cover)of the "From Enslavement..." LP.
Tracks 1 to 12 recorded and mixed at Rich Bitch Studios, Birmingham August 1986.
Tracks 13 to 28 recorded and mixed at Rich Bitch Studios, Birmingham May 1987.
Tracks 29 to 50 recorded and mixed at Birdsong, Worcester.
Mastered at The Exchange.
Published by Earache Songs U.K.
Made in France by MPO.
Manufactured in England.
© 1988 Earache Records
℗ 1988 Earache Records
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