Band Name: Napalm Death
Music Album: The Peel Sessions
Album Release Date: November 1989
Music Genre: Rock Thrash Hardcore Grindcore
Record Label: Strange Fruit
Album Release Country: United Kingdom
Music Record Type: 8 Tracks Vinyl 12"
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 | The Kill / Prison Without Walls / Dead Pt.1 | 0:55 |
A2 | Deceiver / Lucid Fairytale / In Extremis | 1:45 |
A3 | Blind To The Truth / Negative Approach / Common Enemy | 1:05 |
A4 | Obstinate Direction / Life / You Suffer | 1:55 |
B1 | Multi-National Corporations / Instinct Of Survival / Stigmatised / Parasites | 4:10 |
B2 | Moral Crusade / Worlds Apart / M.A.D. | 3:35 |
B3 | Divine Death / C.S. / Control | 3:20 |
B4 | Walls / Raging In Hell / Conform Or Die / S.O.B. | 3:15 |
Double Value: Two Complete Sessions "25 Songs".
Side A recorded on 13th September 1987.
Side B recorded on 8th March 1988.
Each side is separated into tracks containing several individual songs. These groupings represent the tracks as played on John Peel's Radio One show.
Released by arrangement with BBC Records and Tapes.
Sleeve: Manufactured in Gt. Britain
Vinyl record: Made in England
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