Enemy of the Music Business

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Enemy of the Music Business
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Studio album by
Released25 September 2000 (2000-09-25)
Recorded26 May 2000 (2000-05-26)–8 June 2000 (2000-06-08), Parkgate Studios, England
Genre Grindcore
Length45:31
Label Spitfire
Producer Simon Efemey, Russ Russell
Napalm Death chronology
The Complete Radio One Sessions
(2000)
Enemy of the Music Business
(2000)
The DVD
(2001)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Chronicles of Chaos 9.5/10 [2]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 7/10 [3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Kerrang! Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [5]
Metal Hammer 9/10 [6]

Enemy of the Music Business is the ninth studio album by the British band Napalm Death, released in 2000. This album, along with Words from the Exit Wound , are the only Napalm Death studio albums that were released only on CD until 2013. London-based Secret Records has re-issued the album on CD (with covers EP Leaders Not Followers included as bonus tracks) and 180g LP. This is the last release that has Jesse Pintado actually performing. Kerrang put it on the list of the best 50 albums of the 2000, at the position number 19.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Taste the Poison"1:49
2."Next on the List"
  • Embury
  • Greenway
3:36
3."Constitutional Hell"
2:36
4."Vermin"
2:17
5."Volume of Neglect"
  • Harris
3:20
6."Thanks for Nothing"
  • Embury
  • Harris
2:44
7."Can’t Play, Won’t Pay"
  • Embury
  • Greenway
3:25
8."Blunt Against the Cutting Edge"
  • Harris
  • Greenway
3:03
9."Cure for the Common Complaint"
  • Embury
  • Pintado
  • Greenway
2:43
10."Necessary Evil"
  • Embury
  • Harris
2:56
11."C.S. (Conservative Shithead) Part 2"
  • Embury
  • Greenway
2:18
12."Mechanics of Deceit"
  • Embury
3:21
13."(The Public Get) What the Public Doesn’t Want"
  • Embury
  • Pintado
3:14
14."Fracture in the Equation"
  • Pintado
  • Greenway
11:09

CD Re-issue bonus tracks listing (Leaders Not Followers EP)

No.TitleLength
1."Politicians" (Raw Power cover)1:45
2."Incinerator" (Slaughter cover)3:21
3."Demoniac Possession" (Pentagram cover)3:13
4."Maggots in Your Coffin" (Repulsion cover)1:36
5."Back from the Dead" (Death cover)2:36
6."Nazi Punks Fuck Off" (Dead Kennedys cover)6:40

Notes

Tracks number 7 and 13 are misspelled as "Cant Play Wont Pay" and "(The Public Get) What The Public Doesn't Want" in the back of the album. "Taste The Poison" is credited as "Take The Poison" in the booklet.

"Fracture in the Equation" lasts 3:46. At the end of the song, there is a long silence block from 3:46 to 9:54 and, after that, a secret soundbite comes fading in of a fan introducing himself, just like in the Leaders Not Followers EP and Order of the Leech .

Personnel

Napalm Death

Technical personnel

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