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NAPALM DEATH Harmony Corruption 1990 UK EARACHE LTD. ED. w/LIVE LP + INSERT TOP COPY - POSSIBLY NEVER BEEN PLAYED - SUPERB SOUND NAPALM DEATH
Harmony Corruption

1990 UK EARACHE (MOSH 19) LIMITED EDITION PRESSING WITH LIVE LP (Recorded At The I.C.A. London 29 June 1990)
GREAT COPY - LOOKS UNPLAYED

MATRIX & ETCHINGS:
STUDIO LP: MOSH 19 A¹ HOW CHUFFED ? UTOPIA / MOSH 19 B¹ WHAT A BLOODY DOSS
LIVE LP: MOSH 19 L A¹ UTOPIA / MOSH 19 L B¹

During the two-year interim separating Harmony Corruption from Napalm Death's previous album, the band totally revamped its lineup and its sound as well, moving toward the more expansive horizons of standard death metal.
This move inspired quite a bit of debate among fans. Napalm Death had been -- and will always be -- the definitive grindcore band, as exemplified by Scum (1987) and From Enslavement to Obliteration (1988), the two albums that practically alone defined an entire new style of extreme metal.
However, the Napalm Death of those two albums is not the Napalm Death of Harmony Corruption, not in membership nor sound.
The band's vocalist, Lee Dorian, split (to join Cathedral), as did guitarist Bill Steer (Carcass), leaving only the band's rhythm section: bassist Shane Embury and drummer Mick Harris. Barney Greenway (formerly of Benediction) takes over for Dorian, while both Jesse Pintado (Terrorizer) and Mitch Harris (Righteous Pigs) take over for Steer. The addition of Pintado and Harris particularly opened up a new realm of possibilities for Napalm Death, and the band indeed stretches out musically.
Whereas the sound of Scum and Enslavement had been characterised by one- or two-minute grindcore blasts, the sound of Harmony Corruption is more expansive. The songs range from two minutes to over five, and Pintado and Harris often interweave their guitar playing into a dense, dizzying wall of sound that never quite relents until the album reaches its final conclusion.
The guitar playing is varied and intricate here; you can hear the distinction between Pintado and Harris as they bob and weave around one another. This is much different from Steer's playing, which had been essentially a frenzied, distorted blur. Furthermore, the band performs full-fledged songs here, not start-stop eruptions of noise.
The resounding question, though, is whether or not all this is good or bad. Napalm Death play like a tight, muscular death metal band on Harmony Corruption (best highlighted by the aforementioned "Suffer the Children"), which puts them within the norm for the first time and puts them much at odds with their former selves. Whether or not you favour a death metal style to a grindcore one is a question worth asking, but the underlying fact of the matter is that Napalm Death are a new band here, one that plays powerful, albeit relatively straightforward, death metal

Side 1:
Vision Conquest
If The Truth Be Known
Inner Incineration
Malicious Intent
Unfit Earth
Side 2:
Circle Of Hypocrisy
The Chains That Bind Us
Mind Snare
Extremity Retained
Suffer The Children
Side 3: Recorded Live At The I.C.A. London 29 June 1990
Rise Above
Success?
From Enslavement To Obliteration
Control
Walls Of Confinement
Side 4: Recorded Live At The I.C.A. London 29 June 1990
Instinct Of Survival
Siege Of Power
Avalanche Master Song
You Suffer?
Deceiver

LABELS: MINT
All four labels are clean and unmarked - no spindle traces or any signs either record has ever been played
VINYL Visual: EXCELLENT+/NEAR MINT
All surfaces shine like-new with nothing but a few light and harmless marks on the studio set
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
An odd tick between some of the tracks otherwise playback is flawless throughout all four sides
SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
Apart from the original (plus Live LP) sticker being removed the sleeve is like-new
INSERT: NEAR MINT
Printed on both sides of thin glossy paper the insert has very light signs of handling but no condition issues of note

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