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Utilitarian

Napalm DeathAudio CD
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)

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27 years of grindcore ultra-violence, 27 years of being one of the hardest working, hardest touring bands on this miserable planet, NAPALM DEATH’s conviction, energy and belief in spontaneoust, outspoken yet extreme music is far from being watered down. “Time Waits For No Slave”, the band’s 13th studio album (excluding the cover album “Leaders Not Followers ... Read more in Amazon's Napalm Death Store

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  • Audio CD (February 28, 2012)
  • Original Release Date: 2012
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Century Media
  • ASIN: B006XF2SZ6
  • Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Music
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
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1. Circumspect
2. Errors in the Signals
3. Everyday Pox
4. Protection Racket
5. The Wolf I Feed
6. Quarantined
7. Fall on Their Swords
8. Collision Course
9. Orders of Magnitude
10. Think Tank Trials
11. Blank Look About Face
12. Leper Colony
13. Nom de Guerre
14. Analysis Paralysis
15. Opposites Repellent
16. A Gag Reflex
17. Everything in Mono [*]

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2012 album from the veteran Grindcore outfit. Fourteen albums in and Napalm Death still remain the leaders of the Grindcore/Death Metal world, once again showing the upstarts how it's done. Utilitarian runs the gamut from straight-ahead violence and force to pure, undiluted Napalm Death-induced chaos that overall provides a well-rounded bloodletting that's not for the weak and also confronts the listener with such surprising moments as the sax passages by none other than John Zorn on 'Everyday Pox' or choral-like clean sections in 'Fall On Their Swords' or 'Blank Look About Face'. True to the band's tradition of spitting gallons of verbal venom, Utilitarian is an in-your-face razor-edged platter of social, cultural and political commentary.

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This band has come along way since Scum. esthomas  |  1 reviewer made a similar statement
I hate to say it, but buying the CD is the best choice here. deadite9  |  2 reviewers made a similar statement
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:MP3 Music
This is an excellent album; there is no denying that fact. Napalm Death are in fine form on "Utilitarian," and they even manage to throw in a few curves here and there ("Everyday Pox," anyone?). You should be buying it now, if not sooner.

But Century Media has done a great disservice to the band and their fans by screwing up the digital version. The album proper is sixteen tracks, ending with "A Gag Reflex." The CD version, meanwhile, adds a seventeenth track at the end entitled "Everything In Mono." The limited edition contains two extra songs ("Aim Without An Aim," plus the aforementioned track); both of these are rather oddly inserted mid-stream so that they become tracks 13 and 14, respectively. This means that "Nom De Guerre" becomes track 15, "Analysis Paralysis" becomes track 16, "Opposites Repellent" becomes track 17, and "A Gag Reflex" becomes track 18. I honestly don't know if this was intentional on the band's part or if it was just weirdness on the part of CM, but it has led to the digital version being labelled incorrectly due to some apparent laziness.

What CM has done (in their infinitely infinite wisdom) is to encode the album based on the limited edition. But since they're only selling you sixteen songs, you can probably see where this is going: the last four tracks are mislabeled, and what you end up with is an incomplete album. Sure, you're getting the limited edition's bonus tracks, but you're also missing the last two tracks from the album in the process... "Opposites Repellent" and "A Gag Reflex" are just outright missing. Not getting extra songs is one thing, but not getting a true part of the album is something else entirely (and not something that any true fan of the band-- or music in general-- should be willing to condone). I hate to say it, but buying the CD is the best choice here. Unfortunately, this isn't the first time I've seen CM drop the ball on digital downloads (on this service, as well as others)-- and it saddens me to say that it probably won't be the last.

TL;DR... the album is great (hence the rating), but the digital version has the last four tracks mislabeled, and two songs are missing entirely. You should just buy the CD instead.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Napalm Death - Utilitarian February 28, 2012
Format:Audio CD
Napalm Death are a well respected and pioneering force in extreme music and besides that, they are a very prolific band who have released numerous live albums, EPs, one and a half covers albums and now their fourteenth studio album of original music in 2012, entitled Utilitarian. With so much of a back catalogue to contend with, approaching a new album as a new fan could be confusing without all the musical context.

Furthermore, Napalm Death are a band forever surrounded by hyperbole due to the especially nasty, violent and savage sound that they make, so getting a feel of how one album is different to another can be difficult since everyone will just say clichéd things about how your ears will bleed etc.

An honest and hyperbole-free summation would be that if you generally like very extreme music, you should give Napalm Death a fair try and if you generally like Napalm Death then you should give Utilitarian a fair try, there is a strong possibility that you will like it.

Produced by Russ Russel, (The Berzerker, The Rotted, Dimmu Borgir) Utilitarian sounds great, and the energy level from the band themselves is very high. This is yet another expertly crafted album from the band delivering more extreme music and highly political lyrics.

Historically, the band have covered a lot of different ground in their lengthy career, and in the first decade of their career became known for taking radical shifts in musical style, sometimes to crys of `sell out' and sometimes to great praise. In the past decade however, Napalm Death found a winning formula and stuck to it very rigidly, which both garnered praise for consistency and occasional criticism for treading water creatively.

With Utilitarian the band do retain a large quantity of that post millennial formula but they also seem to be overly aware that they haven't changed up their style significantly in a while and so counteract that by using riffs, rhythms and vocal patterns here and there that you wouldn't have heard on the last few albums.

In many ways, Utilitarian can feel like somewhat of a mixture of their albums Order Of The Leech (2002) and Diatribes (1996). Like Diatribes, there is more sonic experimentation and generally fewer blastbeats than on their recent albums and more time is given over to rumbly bass focused breakdowns, different vocal approaches and dissonant jangly guitar styles. However, a successful balance has been achieved between that experimentation and the recent formula and so the rest of the album is very much in the mold of Order Of The Leech in terms of riff style, song structuring, general attitude and the harsh sound from that record.

For example, `The Wolf I Feed' initially has the feel of classic 1980s Hardcore Punk, but later introduces an almost Burton C Bell style clean vocal section. Other examples of the similarity with Diatribe's variety include tracks like `Everyday Pox,' `Orders Of Magnitude' and the album highlight `Blank Look About Face', feature the aforementioned dissonant waves of noisy guitar and even the echoey clean vocals from their late 90s style mixed in to the proceedings.

In terms of stand out moments of the other variety, special mention should be made for the album closer `A Gag Reflex,' which is one of the catchiest and best songs that the band have written since their career highlight Enemy Of The Music Business album.

In summary; it is definitely nice that they are avoiding making the exact same album one more time, and if you lost interest due to too much repetition then you'll probably view Utilitarian as a step in the right direction. That being said, its not as if Napalm Death are changing their direction as vastly as they have been seen to in the past. The success of Utilitarian is that this album feels both fresh and enjoyably diverse, but it does so in a way that feels like a logical evolution. Overall, highly Recommended.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Superb! December 1, 2012
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
After those years, I have certain that Napalm Death is pretty alive.
That grindcore we love still working.
This is the best album I ever heard, until now!
Thanks for the noise, the rebel and the critical idea you have!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great addition
This was a great addition to the Napalm Death library. Your talking to a guy who owns all their albums plus some eps and a live album plus a compilation. Read more
Published 1 month ago by jacob r richardson
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Published 12 months ago by C. Nile Dementia
3.0 out of 5 stars Not my fave
I gotta say I don't really love this record. I'm not saying its bad, its just not as good as enemy , code, or smear campaign, or order of the leech. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Brad Irvin
3.0 out of 5 stars N.B.P.G.
not bad, pretty good. i am a long time fan of napalm. i used to skate to their stuff back in the late 80's and trust me, i was the only person skating to napalm. Read more
Published 13 months ago by HEF
5.0 out of 5 stars Art, death and the working class.
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Published 13 months ago by araboflawrencia
5.0 out of 5 stars Napalm Deaths Utilitarian Something New And Old
I know some peoples reviews are harsh to say the least so just hear me out.This shows how Napalm can experiment and still Brutally Grind like no other. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Unvital Goreface
1.0 out of 5 stars music for Posers... stick with Trivium , White Chapel, or As I lay...
I'm so sick of these poser bands tryin' to pass off as metal these dayz!!! First of all,what type of name is Napalm Death?? Why not pick a cool band name like Attack!Attack! Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Grindcore at its best
27 years into their existence they are still pummeling, they are still extreme and they are still pissed off! Read more
Published 14 months ago by Ronald D. Bruner Jr.
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