Utopia Banished

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Utopia Banished
Utopia Banished (Napalm Death album) cover art.jpg
Studio album by
Napalm Death
Released23 June 1992 (1992-06-23)
Recorded10–19 February 1992
23 February – 2 March 1992
StudioThe Windings, Wrexham, Wales
Genre
Length39:04
Label Earache, Relativity
Producer Colin Richardson, Napalm Death
Napalm Death chronology
Death by Manipulation
(1991)		Utopia Banished
(1992)		 Fear, Emptiness, Despair
(1994)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 4/10 [2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Select Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Spin Alternative Record Guide 5/10 [5]

Utopia Banished is the fourth studio album by the British grindcore band Napalm Death. It 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 ranked it as one of the 20 best metal albums of 1992.

Contents

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

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