Harmony Corruption

Artist: Napalm Death
Label: Earache Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 745316001920
EAN: 0745316001920
ASIN: B00000582P

Release Date: 1994-06-21

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Tracks:

Vision Conquest
If TheTruth Be Known
Inner Incineration
Malicious Intent
Unfit Earth
Circle Of Hypocrisy
The Chains That Bind Us
Mind Snare
Extremity Retained
Suffer The Children
Hiding Behind

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Customer Reviews:

Death Metal/Grindcore Essential .......2007-02-14

Harmony Corruption was the first Napalm Death album I ever got into. I bought this album along with Fear,Emptiness,Despair about four years ago and I've been listening to both of them ever since, but Harmony Corruption was really the one Napalm Death album that really got me hooked to these death metal/grindcore legends. Not only is this one of their very best albums of all time, but it's also a death metal/grindcore essential as well. I believe this was also the first Napalm Death album with Barney Greenway on vocals. His growling vocals are extremely brutal and aggressive, and just fun to growl along to. The lyrics on this album is very intellengent and the song stuctures are very strong too. Jesse Pintado and Mitch Harris are very good guitarists. Their dualing grinding riffs are just heavy and brual throughout and they even throw some pretty good solos in for good measure. Shane Embury's bass is pretty good and flows well with the heavy riffs, and of course Mick Harris's drumming is just loud and beats you like a sledgehammer to your forehead. Every song on here kicks, but my favorites are "If The Truth Be Known", "The Chains That Bind Us", "Inner Incineration", "Vision Conquest", "Malicious Intent", "Circle of Hypocrisy", and "Unfit Earth" (featuring guest vocals from both Glen Benton of Deicide and John Tardy of Obituary). If you're a fan of Napalm Death, Death Metal, Grindcore, or you're just a fan of extreme brutal heavy music like me, by all means you must own this album. NAPALM DEATH RULES!!
Jeremy's song ratings:
1. Vision Conquest - 5/5
2. If The Truth Be Known - 5/5
3. Inner Incineration - 5/5
4. Malicious Intent - 5/5
5. Unfit Earth - 5/5
6. Circle of Hypocrisy - 5/5
7. The Chains That Bind Us - 5/5
8. Mind Snare - 5/5
9. Extremity Retained - 5/5
10. Suffer the Children - 5/5
11. Hiding Behind - 5/5

BLASTING!!!.......2006-05-07

Good song structures, very intelligent & socially aware lyrics, and it's a total guitar riff-fest! Fun to growl along with. A must for metal fans.

Mandatory grind/death metal album!!!.......2006-02-21

This is the best Napalm Death has to offer!!!! Incredible drums, chaotic guitar riffs and psycho vocals by Barney Greenway. Napalm Death is at thier peak here, also recommended "From enslavement to obliberation"

A necessary step... But a doomed step, it is........2005-07-28

This record marked Napalm's Death transition from a pioneer Grincore masters to a not-so-standard Death Metal 5-piece.

It is an important record because the band faced many inward - and outward pressures.

Napalm Death's classic line-up had just collapsed. Lee Dorian went on the form doomsters Cathedral. The joke at the time was that Dorian went from the fastest to the slowest band in the world. Bill Steer decided to stick with his original band, Carcass (he joined Napalm Death when Justin Broadrick exited to form Godflesh). It was good that he quit the band, because Napalm's songwriting was suffering. Just compare the "Mentally Murdered" EP with Carcass'es "Symphonies of Sickness", released on the same year (1989). The impression you get is that Steer's best songs went straight to Carcass.

So, the surving members, Mick Harris and Shane Embury, went on to recruit top talent from the scene. Jesse Pintado, from the defunct Terrorizer, coupled with Mitch Harris, from Righteous Pigs, two of the best Grindcore guitar players America had to offer. The third recruit, "Barney" Greenway, came straight from UK Death Metal upstarts Benediction. With this "stellar" - undergroundwise - new line-up, they released the controversial "Harmony Corruption" (1990).

But, why "controversial"?

It was deemed too "clinical", even by band members, and too many people accused them of "selling out". They even went to Morrisound Studios, to record with the infamous Scott Burns, which added some substance to the latter accusation.

But why such a carrer move?

Just a year prior Tampa Bay metal masters Morbid Angel and Obituary had released "Altars of Madness" and "Slowly We Rot", to great underground acclaim. In the same year Napalm Death released "Harmony Corruption", Deicide unleashed their debut, Entombed spewed forth "Left Hand Path" and Obituary released their sophomore effort, "Cause of Death".

Also, the "blast-beat-you-'til-your-ears-bleed" gimmick was already becoming stale... they just had to move on. So, all in all, "Harmony Corruption" was necessary, though doomed, release. They tried to ammend that with "Utopia Banished" (1992), which was faster and harder... but not necessarily better...

My suggestion? Stick to "Scum", "Death by Manipulation", "Fear Emptiness Despair" and all the records they're releasing nowdays!

The best..........2004-06-01

Album made by napalm death & my fav album by napalm death. Don't get me wrong i love all of their albums but harmony corruption tops any work napalm death ever did ! I hurt my neck while listinin to this whole album! Just buy it and dont ask why... You'll know once you have it!

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