Utopia Banished
Studio album by
Napalm Death
ReleasedMay 1992 (1992-05)
Recorded10–19 February 1992
23 February-2 March 1992
StudioThe Windings, Wrexham, Wales
Genre
Length39:04
LabelEarache, Relativity
ProducerColin Richardson, Napalm Death
Napalm Death chronology
Death by Manipulation
(1991)		 Utopia Banished
(1992)		 Live Corruption
(1992)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal4/10[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
Select[4]
Spin Alternative Record Guide5/10[5]

Utopia Banished is the fourth studio album by the British grindcore band Napalm Death. The album was released in 1992 by Earache Records.[6] 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.

Release

A limited edition of this album included a 3" bonus CD; the vinyl release included a bonus 7" containing the same material.[6]

The 2007 re-release came as part of Earache's Classic Metal series with The DVD as bonus disc.[7]

In 2012, Earache Records released a remastered edition on limited edition coloured vinyl and CD digipak.[8]

Single

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".[9]

Writing

Samples

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.[10]

Track listing

No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Discordance"  1:26
2."I Abstain"Mark GreenwayJesse Pintado3:30
3."Dementia Access"Shane EmburyMitch Harris2:27
4."Christening of the Blind"EmburyEmbury3:21
5."The World Keeps Turning"GreenwayPintado2:55
6."Idiosyncratic"GreenwayEmbury, Pintado2:35
7."Aryanisms"GreenwayEmbury, Harris3:08
8."Cause and Effect (Part II)"GreenwayPintado2:07
9."Judicial Slime"EmburyEmbury2:36
10."Distorting the Medium"GreenwayPintado1:58
11."Got Time to Kill"GreenwayEmbury2:28
12."Upward and Uninterested"GreenwayPintado, Harris2:07
13."Exile"EmburyHarris2:00
14."Awake (To a Life of Misery)"EmburyHarris2:05
15."Contemptuous"EmburyEmbury, Harris, Pintado4:21

Personnel

Napalm Death

Technical personnel

Chart positions

Chart (1992) Peak position
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[11] 60
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[12] 77
UK Albums (OCC)[13] 58

References

  1. ↑ Birchmeier, Jason. Napalm Death: Utopia Banished > Overview at AllMusic. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  2. ↑ Popoff, Martin (2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 305. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9.
  3. ↑ Larkin, Colin, ed. (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. pp. 1015–1016. ISBN 978-0857125958.
  4. ↑ Perry, Andrew (July 1992). "Napalm Death: Utopia Banished". Select. EMAP. pp. 74–75.
  5. ↑ Norris, Chris (1995). "Napalm Death". In Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig (eds.). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. pp. 265–266. ISBN 0-679-75574-8.
  6. 1 2 "Napalm Death 'Utopia Banished'". Earache.com. Earache. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  7. ↑ Utopia Banished at Discogs
  8. ↑ Sheila (14 May 2012). "Napalm Death – 'Utopia Banished' remastered edition out now!". PlanetMosh. Archived from the original on 18 October 2014. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  9. ↑ "Napalm Death 'The World Keeps Turning'". Earache.com. Earache. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
  10. ↑ "(Film) samples in (metal) songs". Rate Your Music. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
  11. ↑ "Napalm Death - Utopia Banished". Offizielle Deutsche Charts. Germany. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  12. ↑ "Dutchcharts.nl – Napalm Death – Utopia Banished" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  13. ↑ "Napalm Death | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
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