Utopia Banished is the fourth studio album by the British grindcore band Napalm Death. The album was released in 1992 by Earache Records.[2] It is the first album featuring Danny Herrera on drums following the departure of Mick Harris. Metal Hammer put it on the list of the 20 best metal album of 1992.
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Released | 23 June 1992 (1992-06-23) | |||
Recorded | 10 February 1992 (1992-02-10)–19 February 1992 (1992-02-19) and 23 February 1992 (1992-02-23)–2 March 1992 (1992-03-02) | |||
Studio | The Windings, Wrexham, Wales | |||
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Length | 39:04 | |||
Label | Earache, Relativity | |||
Producer | Colin Richardson, Napalm Death | |||
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A limited edition of this album included a 3" bonus CD; the vinyl release included a bonus 7" containing the same material.[2]
The 2007 re-release came as part of Earache's Classic Metal series with The DVD as bonus disc.[3]
In 2012, Earache Records released a remastered edition on limited edition coloured vinyl and CD digipak.[4]
The EP "The World Keeps Turning" was released in July 1992 on vinyl and CD and contains two non-album tracks, "A Means to an End" and "Insanity Excursion".[5]
Napalm Death make use of samples in some songs on Utopia Banished. The tracks "Discordance" and "Awake (To a Life of Misery)" sample snippets from 1988 science fiction film They Live while the track "Contemptuous" takes a line from 1987 war film Full Metal Jacket.[6]
No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
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1. | "Discordance" | 1:26 | ||
2. | "I Abstain" | Mark Greenway | Jesse Pintado | 3:30 |
3. | "Dementia Access" | Shane Embury | Mitch Harris | 2:27 |
4. | "Christening of the Blind" | Embury | Embury | 3:21 |
5. | "The World Keeps Turning" | Greenway | Pintado | 2:55 |
6. | "Idiosyncratic" | Greenway | Embury, Pintado | 2:35 |
7. | "Aryanisms" | Greenway | Embury, Harris | 3:08 |
8. | "Cause and Effect (Part II)" | Greenway | Pintado | 2:07 |
9. | "Judicial Slime" | Embury | Embury | 2:36 |
10. | "Distorting the Medium" | Greenway | Pintado | 1:58 |
11. | "Got Time to Kill" | Greenway | Embury | 2:28 |
12. | "Upward and Uninterested" | Greenway | Pintado, Harris | 2:07 |
13. | "Exile" | Embury | Harris | 2:00 |
14. | "Awake (To a Life of Misery)" | Embury | Harris | 2:05 |
15. | "Contemptuous" | Embury | Embury, Harris, Pintado | 4:21 |
Chart (1992) | Peak position |
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German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[7] | 60 |
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[8] | 77 |
UK Albums (OCC)[9] | 58 |
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