Bootlegged in Japan
Live album by
Napalm Death
Released22 June 1998 (1998-06-22)
Recorded5 August 1996 (1996-08-05)
Genre
Length71:12
LabelEarache
ProducerNapalm Death
Napalm Death chronology
Breed to Breathe
(1997) 		Bootlegged in Japan
(1998) 		Words from the Exit Wound
(1998)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Chronicles of Chaos8/10[2]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal4/10[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[4]

Bootlegged in Japan is a live album from British extreme metal band Napalm Death, released in June 1998 through Earache.[5]

Background

The album features a concert from the 5 August 1996 at the Liquid Rooms, Tokyo. It was recorded as a bootleg and after the band received the recording, they found it was good enough to release it as an actual and official live album.[6] In the inlay of the album the band wrote:

The official release of this album was prompted by the fact that we found anonymous bootleg tapes of the '96 Tokyo show coming from Japan, and felt that the recording captured the true uncompromising live spirit of Napalm Death.

— Napalm Death, Bootlegged in Japan (inlay). Napalm Death. Nottingham: Earache. 1998.((cite AV media notes)): CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)

Release

Bootlegged in Japan was part of a 3-CD set together with the album Diatribes and the EP Greed Killing Earache re-released in 2010.[7]

Track listing

No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Antibody"Mark GreenwayShane Embury3:21
2."My Own Worst Enemy"EmburyEmbury3:25
3."More Than Meets the Eye"GreenwayEmbury3:18
4."Hung"Embury, GreenwayMitch Harris, Embury3:57
5."Greed Killing"Embury, Mitch HarrisHarris3:00
6."Suffer the Children"GreenwayMick Harris4:07
7."Mass Appeal Madness"GreenwayMitch Harris, Embury3:31
8."Cursed to Crawl"EmburyEmbury2:59
9."Glimpse into Genocide"EmburyJesse Pintado2:47
10."I Abstain"GreenwayPintado3:33
11."Lucid Fairytales"  1:12
12."Plague Rages"EmburyEmbury3:43
13."Cold Forgiveness"EmburyMitch Harris, Pintado3:58
14."Control"Nicholas Bullen, Justin BroadrickBullen, Broadrick, Mick Harris1:33
15."Diatribes"GreenwayEmbury, Mitch Harris3:55
16."Life?"Jim WhitelyLee Dorrian, Whitely, Bill Steer, Mick Harris1:16
17."Siege of Power"Bullen, BroadrickBullen, Broadrick, Mick Harris4:16
18."If the Truth Be Known"Embury, GreenwayEmbury4:06
19."Unchallenged Hate"  2:14
20."Nazi Punks Fuck Off" (Dead Kennedys cover)Jello BiafraBiafra1:26
21."From Enslavement to Obliteration"  1:37
22."The Kill"Bullen, BroadrickBullen, Broadrick, Mick Harris0:32
23."Scum"Bullen, BroadrickBullen, Broadrick, Mick Harris2:55
24."Ripe for the Breaking"GreenwayMitch Harris, Embury4:39

Personnel

Napalm Death

References

  1. ^ Henderson, Alex. Napalm Death: Bootlegged in Japan > Overview at AllMusic
  2. ^ Wasylyk, Adam (1 September 1998). "Napalm Death - Bootlegged in Japan". Chronicles of Chaos. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
  3. ^ Popoff, Martin (2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 306307. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9.
  4. ^ Larkin, Colin, ed. (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. pp. 1015–1016. ISBN 978-0857125958.
  5. ^ "Napalm Death 'Bootlegged in Japan'". Earache. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
  6. ^ Hayes, Craig (22 July 2013). "Nippon Riffin': Japan's Nastiest (and Best) Metal, Part I". PopMatters. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
  7. ^ EvilG (27 October 2010). "Napalm Death – Diatribes/Greed Killing/Bootlegged in Japan 3 CD set now out in North America". Metal Rules. St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
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