Utopia Banished is the fourth album by the UK

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 band Napalm Death

Napalm Death

Napalm Death are a death metal band formed in Birmingham, England in 1981. While none of its original members remain in the group, the lineup of vocalist Mark "Barney" Greenway, bassist Shane Embury, guitarist Mitch Harris and drummer Danny Herrera has remained consistent for most of the band's ...

. The album was released in 1992 by Earache Records

Earache Records

Earache Records is a heavy metal-oriented record label based in Nottingham, UK and New York, USA. It helped to pioneer extreme metal by releasing many of the earliest grindcore and death metal records in the period 1988-1994.-History:...

. It is the first album featuring Danny Herrera on drums following the departure of Mick Harris

Mick Harris

Mick Harris commonly known and credited both as Mick Harris or occasionally M.J. Harris, is an English musician....

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A limited edition of this album included a 3" bonus CD; the vinyl release included a bonus 7" containing the same material. The version of the album which is currently in print features The DVD as a bonus disc, but does not include the original bonus tracks.

This album proved to be their biggest success, peaking at number 58 on the UK chart.

The album features samples of dialogue from the movies They Live

They Live

They Live is a 1988 science fiction/horror film directed by John Carpenter, who also wrote the screenplay under the pseudonym Frank Armitage ....

and Full Metal Jacket

Full Metal Jacket

Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 war film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. It is an adaptation of the 1979 novel The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford and stars Matthew Modine, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey, Arliss Howard and Adam Baldwin. The film follows a platoon of U.S...

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Track listing

Credits

• Mark "Barney" Greenway – vocals
• Shane Embury
  Shane Embury
  Shane Embury is a British bassist and member of Napalm Death.-Napalm Death:Embury is the only member left who has been in the band since the Scum tour, replacing previous bassist Jim Whitley in 1987...
  
   – bass
  Bass guitar
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• Mitch Harris
  Mitch Harris
  Mitch Harris is an American guitarist, born in New York then moving to Las Vegas, currently living in Birmingham, England. He started his career in the Grindcore band Righteous Pigs. He did a side project with Mick Harris - then the drummer of grindcore band Napalm Death, called Defecation...
  
   – guitar
  Electric guitar
  An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
  
  
• Jesse Pintado
  Jesse Pintado
  Jesse Pintado was a lead guitar player born in Mexico who at an early age moved to the US. He started in the band Terrorizer where he recorded the grindcore album World Downfall, the first album to feature Pete Sandoval who would later leave the band to join Morbid Angel...
  
   – guitar
• Danny Herrera – drums
  Drum kit
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