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| 4.0 excellent | Gary STAFF | February 8th 22 |
A brutally punishing, killer death metal album. They really nailed this one for sure!
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| 4.5 superb | TiedDown93 | 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 good | Alabaster 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 excellent | Jared 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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| 3.5 great | Kahrbo | September 11th 25 |
| 4.0 excellent | Inveigh | February 7th 25 |
| 3.5 great | HalapenYo CONTRIBUTOR | October 14th 24 |
| 4.5 superb | Halo22 | August 15th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | TboneP21 | November 11th 22 |
| 5.0 classic | Gazo | June 21st 22 |
| 3.5 great | DType | May 28th 22 |
| 3.0 good | Lvxfra | October 24th 21 |
| 3.5 great | Jerrad | August 30th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Metaxu | July 30th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | Coast | February 22nd 21 |
| 5.0 classic | hsb | February 11th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Lassie | January 25th 21 |
| 5.0 classic | CalinD | December 10th 20 |
| 3.5 great | remi | November 4th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Gorey13 | September 21st 20 |
| 3.5 great | SuzyC | August 24th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | CK1991 | January 30th 20 |
| 2.5 average | Spluger | October 10th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Aranox | June 19th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | gk1979 | January 29th 19 |
| 3.5 great | carved | October 23rd 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | KManoc1 | March 31st 18 |
| 2.5 average | Basara | March 16th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Samano89 | February 22nd 18 |
| 3.0 good | Fear | December 9th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | heck | November 28th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ryan P STAFF | November 13th 17 |
| 3.0 good | adios | October 8th 17 |
| 3.5 great | AriDoe | September 26th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Risodo | July 25th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | n3xus6 | March 11th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Wolfe | November 30th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | Ulairi4 | November 5th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | bobby72 | October 19th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | LoganVT | September 27th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Henry | February 14th 16 |
| 3.0 good | adr | January 6th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | dragoth | September 3rd 15 |
| 3.5 great | Artax36 | September 2nd 15 |
| 3.0 good | Fozzie | August 8th 15 |
| 2.0 poor | Matski | April 14th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Dav85 | February 1st 15 |
| 3.5 great | Titan | January 25th 15 |
| 3.5 great | Jeejee | January 9th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | "Tab" | November 17th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Faustus | November 12th 14 |
| 1.5 very poor | SunSpot | October 23rd 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jwar375 | October 7th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Surtur | July 31st 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | gas83 | March 18th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Weirman | November 21st 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Smial | September 9th 13 |
| 3.5 great | jseijo | September 8th 13 |
| 3.5 great | joomisy | September 2nd 13 |
| 5.0 classic | Tomes | August 28th 13 |
| 3.2 good | Trey STAFF | June 1st 13 |
| 5.0 classic | skoik | April 15th 13 |
| 3.5 great | srm90 | January 5th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Vacceo | December 28th 12 |
| 3.5 great | ezba45 | December 28th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Atheus | December 13th 12 |
| 3.0 good | sagu | September 29th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Thor | August 28th 12 |
| 3.5 great | ZedO | May 4th 12 |
| 5.0 classic | RATM46 | March 2nd 12 |
| 3.5 great | Wizard | November 8th 11 |
| 3.0 good | Zool | August 25th 11 |
| 3.5 great | KILL | August 11th 11 |
| 3.5 great | Bazzoe | December 23rd 10 |
| 2.5 average | IAJP | August 13th 10 |
| 3.0 good | aeuk | November 15th 09 |
| 2.5 average | kingsoby1 EMERITUS | February 16th 09 |
| 3.5 great | Henry8 | December 24th 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | disbill | October 14th 07 |
| 3.5 great | jk2two | September 5th 07 |
| 3.5 great | Jmaj14 | August 31st 07 |
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