Napalm Death   Utopia Banished
3.6
great
Release Date: 1992
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3.5 greatEggnog Addict | June 13th 24

short fairly powerful death metal songs

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4.0 excellentGary STAFF | February 8th 22

A brutally punishing, killer death metal album. They really nailed this one for sure!

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4.5 superbTiedDown93 | April 30th 20

One of my favorite death metal records of the 90s. Very punishing and evil sounding while retaining everything I love about English death metal.

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3.0 goodAlabaster Jones | March 22nd 17

The seemingly endless revolving door of stylistic shifts and band members would begin to slow for Napalm Death after the release of Utopia Banished. It was their first effort with current drummer Danny Herrera, and the deathgrind (quite literally grindcore with a pinch of death metal influence, in their case, rather than an equal mixture) that would characterize most of the rest of their career would begin to settle in as well. In a way, this makes Utopia Banished a transitional effort for the group; it's got some burners, but overall it's relatively standard stuff that is nowhere near as refined or charismatic as some of their later efforts. It's good, but not great. A question for people more well-versed in grind: where did the trend of grind or powerviolence bands ending albums with really boring sludge metal songs begin? It works sometimes but usually it's quite a snooze.

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4.0 excellentJared Floryan | December 4th 14

What needs to be said about Utopia Banished? We're basically living in a world of shit, and one of the many possible remedies for our central residence is death metal - to the point, sickening brutality prone to amplifing the state of arousal as a means to get away from Earth's corruption that is nigh. Napalm Death are clearly more well-known for their first two releases, leading them to become the 'fathers of grindcore'. I will say, however, that if anybody's got the time to jam any material post-From Enslavement to Obliteration, then by all means feel free to bask in the unassuming glory.

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