Napalm Death

Napalm Death is one of the founding fathers of grindcore, that
subdivision of death metal consisting of very short, very fast,
chaotic blurs of noise.
Their debut album,
Scum, is a landmark in the field, but is
also notable since not one, not two, but three different members
left after that album and formed enormously influential and
successful bands in their own (these being Bill Steer, who
founded
Carcass,
Lee Dorrian
(
Cathedral),
and Justin Broadrick
(
Godflesh)).
By 1990's
Harmony Corruption a largely different lineup was in
place (in fact, soon after the band had completed a complete
makeover, with no remaining original members), and while the
focus slightly shifted from grindcore to death metal, they still
set standards for brutality in extreme music.
The later nineties showed the band almost in thrash mode, but
following their split from Earache Records, they have returned
(at least in part) to their grindcore roots.
Current Members
Mark "Barney" Greenway
vocals
(Benediction)
Mitch Harris
guitars
(Meathook Seed)
Shane Embury
bass
(Brujeria, Insidious Disease, Lock Up, Meathook Seed)
Danny Herrera
drums
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Former Members/Guests
Lee Dorrian
vocals
(Cathedral, Teeth Of Lions Rule The Divine)
Bill Steer
guitars
(Angel Witch, Carcass, Firebird)
Justin Broadrick
guitars
(Godflesh, Head Of David, Jesu)
Jesse Pintado
guitars
(Lock Up, Terrorizer)
RIP: August 27, 2006, complications resulting from a diabetic
Nik Bullen
bass/vocals
Jim Whitely
bass
Mick Harris
drums
(Praxis)
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Discography
Scum
1987
Earache
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- Multinational Corporations
- Instinct of Survival
- The Kill
- Scum
- Caught... in a Dream
- Polluted Minds
- Sacrificed
- Siege of Power
- Control
- Born on Your Knees
- Human Garbage
- You Suffer
- Life?
- Prison Without Walls
- Point of no Return
- Negative Approach
- Success?
- Deceiver
- C.S.
- Parasites
- Pseudo Youth
- Divine Death
- As the Machine Rolls On
- Common Enemy
- Moral Crusade
- Stigmatized
- M.A.D.
- Dragnet
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- Lee Dorrian
- Bill Steer
- Justin Broadrick
- Nik Bullen
- Jim Whitely
- Mick Harris
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Reviews: Metal Observer
Metal Forces
From Enslavement To Obliteration
1988
Earache
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- Evolved as One
- It's a M.A.N. S World!
- Lucid Fairytale
- Private Death
- Impressions
- Unchallenged Hate
- Uncertainty Blurs the Vision
- Cock Rock Alienation
- Retreat to Nowhere
- Think for a Minute
- Display to Me . . .
- From Enslavement to Obliteration
- Blind to the Truth
- Social Sterility
- Emotional Suffocation
- Practice What You Preach
- Inconceivable?
- Worlds Apart
- Obstinate Direction
- Mentally Murdered
- Sometimes
- Make Way!
- Musclehead
- Your Achievement
- Dead
- Morbid Deceiver
- Curse
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- Lee Dorrian
- Bill Steer
- Shane Embury
- Mick Harris
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Reviews: Metal Observer
(EP) Mentally Murdered
1989
Earache
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- Lee Dorrian
- Bill Steer
- Shane Embury
- Mick Harris
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Harmony Corruption
1990
Earache
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- Vision Conquest
- If the truth be known
- Inner incineration
- Malicious Intent
- Unfit Earth
- Circle of Hipocrisy
- The chains that bind us
- Mind snare
- Suffer the children
- Hiding Behind (CD bonus track)
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- Mark "Barney" Greenway
- Jesse Pintado
- Mitch Harris
- Shane Embury
- Mick Harris
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Reviews: Metal Observer
(EP) Mass Appeal Madness
1991
Earache
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- Mass Appeal Madness
- Pride Assassin
- Unchallenged Hate
- Social Sterility
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- Mark "Barney" Greenway
- Jesse Pintado
- Mitch Harris
- Shane Embury
- Mick Harris
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Death By Manipulation (compilation)
1991
Earache
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- Mass Appeal Madness
- Pride Assassin
- Unchallenged hate
- Social Sterility
- Suffer the Children
- Siege of power
- Harmony Corruption
- Rise Above
- The Missing Link
- Mentally Murdered
- Walls of Confinement
- Cause and Effect
- No Mental Effort
- Multinational Corporations Pt. 2
- Re-address the problem
- Changing Colours
- From the Ashes
- Understanding
- Stalemate
- Unchallenged Hate (US CD bonus track)
- Mentally Murdered (US CD bonus track)
- Walls of Confinement (US CD bonus track)
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Utopia Banished
1992
Earache
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- Discordance
- I Abstain
- Dementia Access
- Christening of the Blind
- The World Keeps Turning
- Idiosyncratic
- Aryanisms
- Cause and Effect (Pt. II)
- Judicial Slime
- Distorting the Medium
- Got Time To Kill
- Upward and Uninterested
- Exile
- Awake (To A Life of Misery)
- Contemptuous
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- Mark "Barney" Greenway
- Jesse Pintado
- Mitch Harris
- Shane Embury
- Danny Herrera
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Reviews: Metal Observer
(EP) Nazi Punks Fuck Off
1994
Earache
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- Nazi Punks Fuck Off
- Aryanisms
- Nazi Punks Fuck Off (live)
- Contemptuous (xtreem mix)
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- Mark "Barney" Greenway
- Jesse Pintado
- Mitch Harris
- Shane Embury
- Danny Herrera
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Fear, Emptiness, Despair
1994
Earache
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- Twist The Knife (Slowly)
- Hung
- Remain Nameless
- Plague Rages
- More than Meets the eye
- Primed Time
- State of Mind
- Armageddon x7
- Retching on the dirt
- Fasting on deception
- Throwaway
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- Mark "Barney" Greenway
- Jesse Pintado
- Mitch Harris
- Shane Embury
- Danny Herrera
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Reviews: Metal Observer
(EP) Greed Killing
1995
Earache
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- Greed Killings
- My Own Worst Enemy
- Self Betrayal
- Finer Truths, White Lies
- Antibody
- All Links Severed
- Plague Rages
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- Mark "Barney" Greenway
- Jesse Pintado
- Mitch Harris
- Shane Embury
- Danny Herrera
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Diatribes
1996
Earache
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- Greed Killing
- Glimpse into Genocide
- Ripe for the Breaking
- Cursed to Crawl
- Cold Forgiveness
- My Own Worst Enemy
- Just Rewards
- Dogma
- Take the Strain
- Diatribes
- Placate, Sedate, Eradicate
- Corrosive Elements
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- Mark "Barney" Greenway
- Jesse Pintado
- Mitch Harris
- Shane Embury
- Danny Herrera
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Reviews: Metal Observer
Inside The Torn Apart
1997
Earache
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- Breed to Breathe
- Birth in Regress
- Section
- Reflect on Conflict
- Down in the Zero
- Inside the Torn Apart
- If Symptoms Persist
- Prelude
- Indispose
- Purist Realist
- Lowpoint
- Lifeless Alarm
- Time Will Come
- Bled Dry
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- Mark "Barney" Greenway
- Jesse Pintado
- Mitch Harris
- Shane Embury
- Danny Herrera
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Reviews: Chronicles Of Chaos
Sea Of Tranquility
Words From The Exit Wound
1998
Earache
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- Repression Out Of Uniform
- Next Of Kin To Chaos
- Trio-Degradable/Affixed By Disconcern
- Cleanse Impure
- Devouring Depraved
- Ulterior Exterior
- None The Wiser?
- Clutching At Barbs
- Incendiary Incoming
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- Mark "Barney" Greenway
- Jesse Pintado
- Mitch Harris
- Shane Embury
- Danny Herrera
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Reviews: Chronicles Of Chaos
(EP) Leaders Not Followers
1999
Dreamcatcher
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- Politicians
- Incinerator
- Demonic Possession
- Maggots In Your Coffin
- Back From The Dead
- Nazi Punks Fuck Off (hidden track)
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- Mark "Barney" Greenway
- Jesse Pintado
- Mitch Harris
- Shane Embury
- Danny Herrera
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Enemy Of The Music Business
2000
Dreamcatcher
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- Take the Poison
- Next on the List
- Constitutional Hell
- Vermin
- Volume of Neglect
- Thanks for Nothing
- Can't Play, Won't Pay
- Blunt Against the Cutting Edge
- Cure for the Common People
- Necessarily Evil
- C.S. (Conservative Shithead), Pt. 2
- Mechanics of Deceit
- (The Public Gets) What the Public Doesn't Want
- Fracture in the Equation
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- Mark "Barney" Greenway
- Jesse Pintado
- Mitch Harris
- Shane Embury
- Danny Herrera
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Reviews: Chronicles Of Chaos
Metal Observer
Order Of The Leech
2002
Dreamcatcher
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- Continuing war on stupidity
- The icing on the hate
- Forced to fear
- Narcoleptic
- Out of sight.Out of mind
- To lower yourself (Blind servitude)
- Lowest common denominator
- Forewarned is Disarmed ?
- Per Capita
- Farce and Fiction
- Blows to the Body
- The great Capitulator
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- Mark "Barney" Greenway
- Mitch Harris
- Shane Embury
- Danny Herrera
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Reviews: Chronicles Of Chaos
Lords Of Metal
Leaders Not Followers: Part 2
2004
Century Media
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- Lowlife
- Face Down In The Dirt
- Devastation
- Messiah
- Victims Of A Bomb Raid
- Fright Night
- War’s No Fairytale
- Conform
- Master
- Fire, Death, Faith
- Root Of Violence
- Game Of The Arseholes
- Clangor Of War
- Dope Fiend
- I’m Tired
- Troops Of Doom
- Bedtime Story
- Blind Justice
- Hate, Fear & Power
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- Mark "Barney" Greenway
- Mitch Harris
- Shane Embury
- Danny Herrera
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The Code Is Red ... Long Live The Code
2005
Century Media
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- Silence Is Deafening
- Right You Are
- Diplomatic Immunity
- The Code Is Red... Long Live The Code
- Climate Controllers
- Instruments Of Persuasion
- The Great And The Good
- Sold Short
- All Hail The Grey Dawn
- Vegetative State
- Pay For The Privilege Of Breathing!
- Pledge Yourself To You
- Striding Purposefully Backwards
- Morale
- Our Pain Is Their Power
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- Mark "Barney" Greenway
- Mitch Harris
- Shane Embury
- Danny Herrera
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Smear Campaign
2006
Century Media
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- Weltschmerz (intro)
- Sink Fast Let Go
- Fatalist
- Puritanical Punishment Beating
- Well All Is Said and Done
- Freedom Is the Wage of Sin
- In Deference
- Short-Lived
- Identity Crisis
- Shattered Existence
- Eyes Right Out
- Warped Beyond Logic
- Rabid Wolves (For Christ)
- Deaf and Dumbstruck (Intelligent Design)
- Persona Non Grata
- Smear Campaign
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- Mark "Barney" Greenway
- Mitch Harris
- Shane Embury
- Danny Herrera
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Reviews: Blabbermouth
Chronicles Of Chaos
Sea Of Tranquility
Lords Of Metal
Metal Observer
Time Waits For No Slave
2009
Century Media
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- Strong Arm
- Diktat
- Work To Rule
- On The Brink Of Extinction
- Time Waits For No Slave
- Life And Limb
- Downbeat Clique
- Fallacy Dominion
- Passive Tense
- Larency Of The Heart
- Procrastination On The Empty Vessel
- Feeling Redundant
- A No-Sided Argument
- De-evolution Ad Nauseum
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- Mark "Barney" Greenway
- Mitch Harris
- Shane Embury
- Danny Herrera
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Reviews: Blabbermouth
Chronicles Of Chaos
Lords Of Metal
Metal Observer
Utilitarian
2012
Century Media
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- Circumspect
- Errors In The Signals
- Everyday Pox
- Protection Racket
- The Wolf I Feed
- Quarantined
- Fall On Their Swords
- Collision Course
- Orders Of Magnitude
- Think Tank Trials
- Blank Look About Face
- Leper Colony
- Nom De Guerre
- Analysis Paralysis
- Opposite Repellent
- A Gag Reflex
- Aim Without An Aim (bonus track)
- Everything In Mono (bonus track)
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Reviews: Angry Metal Guy
Metal Forces