2018 vinyl re-release on full dynamic range edition

During the two-year interim separating Harmony Corruption fromNapalm Deaths previous album, the band totally revamped its line-upand its sound as well, moving toward the more expansive horizons ofstandard death metal. This move inspired quite a bit of debateamong fans. Napalm Death had been — and will always be — thedefinitive grindcore band, as exemplified by Scum (1987) and FromEnslavement to Obliteration (1988), the two albums that practicallyalone defined an entire new style of extreme metal. However, theNapalm Death of those two albums is not the Napalm Death of HarmonyCorruption, not in membership nor sound. The band´s vocalist, LeeDorian, split (to join Cathedral), as did guitarist Bill Steer(Carcass), leaving only the band´s rhythm section: bassist ShaneEmbury and drummer Mick Harris. Barney Greenway (formerly ofBenediction) 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 newrealm of possibilities for Napalm Death, and the band indeedstretches out musically. Whereas the sound of Scum and Enslavementhad been characterized by one- or two-minute grindcore blasts, thesound of Harmony Corruption is more expansive. The songs range fromtwo minutes to over five, and Pintado and Harris often interweavetheir guitar playing into a dense, dizzying wall of sound thatnever quite relents until the album reaches its final conclusion.The guitar playing is varied and intricate here; you can hear thedistinction between Pintado and Harris as they bob and weave aroundone another. This is much different from Steer´s playing, which hadbeen essentially a frenzied, distorted blur. Furthermore, the bandperforms full-fledged songs here, not start-stop eruptions ofnoise. A song like "Suffer the Children" would have been incrediblyout of place on Enslavement. In fact, most of the songs here wouldhave been out of place there — these are straightforward deathmetal songs, not grindcore blasts. Scott Burns makes this all themore apparent with his crystal-clear production. The resoundingquestion, though, is whether or not all this is good or bad. NapalmDeath play like a tight, muscular death metal band on HarmonyCorruption (best highlighted by the aforementioned "Suffer theChildren"), which puts them within the norm for the first time andputs them much at odds with their former selves. Whether or not youfavor a death metal style to a grindcore one is a question worthasking, but the underlying fact of the matter is that Napalm Deathare a new band here, one that plays powerful, albeit relativelystraightforward, death metal. But only for this album. Their nextalbum, Utopia Banished (1992), would spiral them off into a moreexperimental hybrid of grindcore and death metal, which is wherethey´d remain for years afterward — out there, somewhere inbetween. All considered, Harmony Corruption is a bit of a novelalbum for the band, though one that´s not especially remarkable inthe big picture. The track `Unfit Earth´ features John Tardy fromObituary and Glen Benton from Deicide on backing vocals.

Track listing:
1. Vision Conquest
2. If The Truth Be Known
3. Inner Incineration
4. Malicious Intent
5. Unfit Earth
6. Circle Of Hypocrisy
7. The Chains That Bind U
8. Mind Snare
9. Extremity Retained
10. Suffer The Children
11. Hiding Behind

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Condition vinyl: nm

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