From Enslavement to Obliteration

by Napalm Death

From Enslavement to Obliteration cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 16 September 1988
  • Label: Earache
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 34:34
  • Community rating: 3.52/5 from 6 ratings

Artists on this release: Shane Embury, Bill Steer, Mick Harris, Lee Dorrian

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Pushing extreme music to its absolute brink, this sophomore release completely crystallized grindcore into an unrelenting, suffocating wall of blast beats, distorted bass, and guttural screams. Lyrically, it targets capitalism, social injustice, and corporate greed with furious, uncompromising anarchist vitriol. Clocking in at barely 30 minutes, it is a hyper-aggressive, chaotic, and fundamentally important milestone in the evolution of both extreme metal and hardcore punk.

Genres

Descriptors: alienation, anarchism, male-vocalist, noisy, political, blast-beats, fast, ferocious, extreme

Tracklist

  1. Evolved As One (3:13)
  2. Its A MANS World (0:54)
  3. Lucid Fairytale (1:02)
  4. Private Death (0:35)
  5. Impressions (0:35)
  6. Unchallenged Hate (2:07)
  7. Uncertainty Blurs The Vision (0:40)
  8. Cock-Rock Alienation (1:20)
  9. Retreat To Nowhere (0:30)
  10. Think For A Minute (1:42)
  11. Display To Me (2:43)
  12. From Enslavement To Obliteration (1:35)
  13. Blind To The Truth (0:21)
  14. Social Sterility (1:03)
  15. Emotional Suffocation (1:06)
  16. Practice What You Preach (1:23)
  17. Inconceivable (1:06)
  18. Worlds Apart (1:24)
  19. Obstinate Direction (1:01)
  20. Mentally Murdered (2:13)
  21. Sometimes (1:06)
  22. Make Way (1:36)
  23. Musclehead (0:50)
  24. Your Achievement (0:06)
  25. Dead (0:05)
  26. Morbid Deceiver (0:45)
  27. The Curse (3:17)

Credits

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