Napalm Death "Utopia Banished"

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

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

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

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

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.

Track listing

1. "Discordance" 1:26
2. "I Abstain" Mark Greenway Jesse Pintado 3:30
3. "Dementia Access" Shane Embury Mitch Harris 2:27
4. "Christening of the Blind" Embury Embury 3:21
5. "The World Keeps Turning" Greenway Pintado 2:55
6. "Idiosyncratic" Greenway Embury, Pintado 2:35
7. "Aryanisms" Greenway Embury, Harris 3:08
8. "Cause and Effect (Part II)" Greenway Pintado 2:07
9. "Judicial Slime" Embury Embury 2:36
10. "Distorting the Medium" Greenway Pintado 1:58
11. "Got Time to Kill" Greenway Embury 2:28
12. "Upward and Uninterested" Greenway Pintado, Harris 2:07
13. "Exile" Embury Harris 2:00
14. "Awake (To a Life of Misery)" Embury Harris 2:05
15. "Contemptuous" Embury Embury, Harris, Pintado 4:21

Track 9 is misspelled as "Juidicial Slime" on back cover.

Recording information:

Recorded and mixed on 24 tracks at the Windings, Wrexham, North Wales from 10th - 19th Feb. and 23rd Feb. - 2nd March 1992.

Co-Produced by Napalm Death.

Colin Richardson – production, engineering

Pete Coleman – co-engineering

Matt Anker – photography

Mid – cover art

J. Barry – layout