From Enslavement to Obliteration

From Enslavement to Obliteration is the seicont album bi the Inglis grindcore baund Napalm Death, released in 1988.

From Enslavement to Obliteration
Studio album by Napalm Death
Released	October 1988
Recordit	1988 at Birdsong, Worcester
Genre	Grindcore
Lenth	29:20
Label	Earache
Producer	Napalm Death Dig
Napalm Death chronology
Scum (1987) From Enslavement to Obliteration (1988) Mentally Murdered (1989)

It is the anerlie Napalm Death album tae featur Lee Dorrian as the sole vocalist, whaur he affers the law, gruntin vocals an frae time tae time in sangs, he will scream in an odd-pitched tone, no unlik static. He is considered ane o the first extreme metal vocalists tae alternate atween guttural grouls an heich-pitched screams, a technique that wad be elaboratit on bi fellae grind act Carcass (wha is aften gien credit for the invention o this vocal style) an eimitatit bi coontless baunds in the futur (ane prominent example bein Corpsegrinder o Cannibal Corpse). This album is creditit as a huge influence in the seicont wave o daith metal baunds that follaed this release. This album alang wi Scum is conseidered tae be ane o the maist brutal records o aw time bi fans an creetics as weel.

Leerical themes

The leerical themes ranged frae a variety o social an poleetical topics, includin: misogyny/sexism ("It's a M.A.N.S World" an "Inconceivable?"), animal richts ("Display to Me…"), racism ("Unchallenged Hate"), materialism ("Private Death" an "From Enslavement to Obliteration"), an caipitalism ("Make Way!"). The album caws for social chynge, as seen in the sang "Uncertainty Blurs the Vision," quotin Rudimentary Peni at the sang's conclusion. This an the umwhile ane focus primarily on poleetical problems, while the next releases will focus mair on releegion (wi an atheist backgrund).

Reception

In 2009 From Enslavement to Obliteration wis ranked nummer 1 in Terrorizer's leet o essential European grindcore albums.^[1] Writer Jonathan Horsley describit it as markin "the genre's perilous rite o passage through Breetain's post-industrial urban landscape."^[1]

Muisic creetic Piero Scaruffi includes From Enslavement to Obliteration at nummer 6, juist efter Jane's Addiction's Nothing's Shocking an afore Fear Factory's Demanufacture, in his classification o the best metal albums o aw times.^[2]

Track leetin

No.	Teetle	Lenth
1.	"Evolved as One"	3:13
2.	"It's a M.A.N.S 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

Bonus tracks on the CD edition

No.	Teetle	Lenth
1.	"Musclehead"	0:50
2.	"Your Achievement?"	0:06
3.	"Dead"	0:04
4.	"Morbid Deceiver"	0:45
5.	"The Curse"	3:17

The Curse

The Curse is a free 7-inch extendit play bi the grindcore baund Napalm Death, includit in the initial copies o the From Enslavement to Obliteration LP, whilk wis released throu Earache in September 1988.^[3]

Track leetin

Side ane
No.	Teetle	Lenth
1.	"The Curse"	3:17

Side twa
No.	Teetle	Lenth
1.	"Musclehead"	0:51
2.	"Your Achievement?"	0:06
3.	"Dead"	0:04
4.	"Morbid Deceiver"	0:45

• The sang Morbid Deceiver is a re-recordin o the sang Deceiver, oreeginally on the album Scum

Personnel

• Lee Dorrian – vocals
• Shane Embury – bass guitar
• Bill Steer – guitar
• Mick Harris – drums

Credits

• Bill Steer – Guitar
• Shane Embury – Bass
• Lee Dorrian – Vocals
• Mick Harris – Drums
• Steve Bird - Ingineer
• Mark Sikora - Front Airt
• Mike Marsh - Masterin