NAPALM DEATH — Utopia Banished (review)

NAPALM DEATH — Utopia Banished album cover Album · 1992 · Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
DamoXt7942
Harmonization of grindcore and thrash metal. ‘Utopia Banished”, veiled in a pic of infernal dread, was released in 1992, when the formation of NAPALM DEATH has got stabilized. Their settled period might let themselves introduce a novel music style - extreme grindcore blended with thrash metal. Their speedy, up-beated melodic and rhythmic distortion and dissection should’ve blow the audience deeply into addictive nightmare. This “Utopia Banished” can be thought as “Deathtopia Appeared”, and obviously our nightmare’s just got started at that moment.

Aside from detailed expression for every single track ... after infernal vocal madness and lazy, hazy dragging guitar play, Barney’s monotonous, distorted, deformed shouts open our inner brain in a forced or compulsive manner. Along with destructive, ultrafast rhythmic basis, Barney’s voices sound quite vivacious and immersive. Each instrument can get precisely synchronized and crystallized with others. Their crazy harmonies spin pretty violently but never broken nor collapsed. We, the audience should be attacked and tortured powerfully with such a distorted sound revolution for about 40 minutes indeed, but we would follow the “deathxplosion” completely I guess. NAPALM DEATH’s intensive attitude for us is serious and sincere, let me say.
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