Napalm Death - Grind Kaijyu Attack - Live in Japan

This is the Napalm Death side of the out of print limited edition (500 copies were pressed) live split LP with Nasum, recorded in Osaka on January 9th 2004. I haven't uploaded the Nasum side as it is identical to the "Doombringer" CD which is a regular release you can, and should buy. It's short and sweet at six songs/18 minutes, split evenly between their then most recent two albums, "Enemy of the Music Business" and "Order of the Leech". The sound quality is excellent and so are the tunes, and if you're like me and missing this rare recording bugged you, here's a cheap way to solve the problem. Enjoy!

Track listing:

1. Narcoleptic (2:37)
2. Taste the Poison (1:47)
3. Next on the List (3:29)
4. To Lower Yourself (3:09)
5. Can't Play, Won't Pay (3:19)
6. The Icing on the Hate (3:29)

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Napalm Death - Live at Earthdom, Tokyo, 11.09.2010.

I guess this show was added to the tour later?

In my opinion today's Napalm Death is the best Napalm Death ever, and this show is as great as any one I've heard or been to. The sound quality is, let's say medium, with a bit of a booming low end and a little too much crowd noise, but otherwise rather clear and noise-free. The recording is a bit short at 52 minutes - I wonder whether it was a short set, or if it's incomplete - there's no "Greed Killing" here, which they played every time I saw them. I'd also love to have the opening set by "Napalm Truth", Venomous Concept (Shane Embury and Danny Herrera + Kevin Sharp and Dan Lilker) - if I ever find it, I'll add it to the post.

Track listing:

1. Intro/Strong Arm (4:09)
2. Unchallenged Hate (2:56)
3. Suffer the Children (4:05)
4. Silence Is Deafening (6:03)
5. Life and Limb (3:10)
6. Diktat (3:38)
7. When All Is Said and Done (2:53)
8. It's a M.A.N.S. World! (0:55)
9. From Enslavement to Obliteration (3:19)
10. On the Brink of Extinction (4:22)
11. Scum (2:59)
12. Life? (0:38)
13. The Kill (0:26)
14. Deceiver (0:37)
15. You Suffer (1:05)
16. Mass Appeal Madness (4:08)
17. Nazi Punks Fuck Off! (3:48)
18. Siege of Power (3:27)

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Napalm Death - Noise for Music's Sake, Pt. 2

A photo from a fantastic show at Zagreb's KSET club which I had the pleasure of attending.

Some years ago Earache has released a great double-CD compilation by Napalm Death called "Noise for Music's Sake", the first CD of which contained a "best of" selection from their time with the label, and the second, more interesting one for the dedicated fan, a collection of harder to find stuff, including some EP's and many of the bonus tracks added to various re-releases of their studio albums. This album I have compiled completes the story with other non-album stuff that was left off of that compilation, and presents a neat overview of their career from the early harsh grindcore stuff ("The Curse" 7", split 7" with S.O.B., a couple of tracks exclusive to the "Nazi Punks Fuck Off" 7", and a live compilation track), through the somewhat tedious "commercial" phase (the "Greed Killing" and "Breed to Breathe" EP's, minus the tracks available on the "Diatribes" LP), up to the bonus tracks from limited editions of their two most recent releases, the unstoppable "Smear Campaign" and "Time Waits for No Slave", rounded off by an exclusive track for the Decibel magazine. All of this stuff is easily available across the Internet, but I wanted to have it all in one neat package, so here it is for your enjoyment - it does sag a bit in the middle ("Self Betrayal" is especially painful to a punk rocker's ears; surprisingly, I rather like the remix of "Contemptuous", even though I consider the mid-90s trend of techno remixes to be one of the most despicable ones in the whole history of metal), but most of it is essential music by one of the greatest extreme bands of all time.

Track listing:

1. The Curse (3:17)
2. Musclehead (0:50)
3. Your Achievement (0:06)
4. Dead (0:05)
5. Morbid Deceiver (0:45)
6. Multi-National Corporations, Pt. 2 (1:30)
7. Re-Address the Problem (0:31)
8. Changing Colours (0:56)
9. From the Ashes (0:45)
10. Understanding? (0:05)
11. Stalemate (1:03)
12. Unchallenged Hate (live) (1:56)
13. Nazi Punks Fuck Off! (live) (1:44)
14. Contemptuous (xtreem mix) (4:29)
15. Self Betrayal (4:38)
16. Finer Truths, White Lies (2:59)
17. Antibody (2:51)
18. All Links Severed (2:40)
19. Plague Rages (live) (3:48)
20. All Intensive Purposes (3:23)
21. Stranger Now (3:46)
22. Bled Dry (2:21)
23. Time Will Come (3:22)
24. Call That an Option? (3:02)
25. Atheist Runt (6:43)
26. Suppressed Hunger (3:09)
27. We Hunt in Packs (3:49)
28. Omnipresent Knife in Your Back (5:41)
29. Legacy Was Yesterday (2:15)

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