From Enslavement to Obliteration
| From Enslavement to Obliteration | ||||
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| Studio album by Napalm Death | ||||
| Released | 16 September 1988 | |||
| Recorded | July 1988 at Birdsong, Worcester | |||
| Genre | Grindcore | |||
| Length | 29:20 | |||
| Label | Earache | |||
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Napalm Death Dig |
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| EP by Napalm Death | |
| Released | September 1988 |
| Genre | Grindcore |
| Length | 5:04 |
| Label | Earache (7MOSH 8) |
From Enslavement to Obliteration is the second album by grindcore band Napalm Death, released in 1988. It is the final studio album with vocalist Lee Dorrian and guitarist Bill Steer, and the first to feature bassist Shane Embury, the band's longest-tenured member. A remastered version was released on 2 April 2012.
The album's lyrical themes cover a variety of social and political topics, including misogyny/sexism ("It's a M.A.N.S World" and "Inconceivable?"), animal rights ("Display to Me…"), racism ("Unchallenged Hate" and "From Enslavement to Obliteration"), materialism ("Private Death"), and anti-capitalism ("Make Way!"). The album calls for social change, as seen in the song "Uncertainty Blurs the Vision," quoting Rudimentary Peni at the song's conclusion.
Shane Embury retrospectively commented on the band's progression up until From Enslaved... in Kerrang! magazine:
It was a good experience but it was a brief one. Back in those days albums were recorded very quickly – we recorded the album in about six days and I think it cost about £800. In the early days in the very beginning before I joined, it was more of a crust punk band really but it was a natural progression, I think, to get faster and faster. Scum created a buzz and by the time we did FETO, we just wanted to push it as fast as we could and as far as possible. We weren't really consciously trying to break any rules but we weren't paying any attention to them either. If we wanted to do a song that was going to be 20 seconds long then we'd do it – we didn't think there was any reason not to. The vocals for us went hand-in-hand with the distorted bass guitar, distorted guitars and hyper-fast drumming".
In 2009 From Enslavement to Obliteration was ranked number 1 in Terrorizer's list of essential European grindcore albums. Writer Jonathan Horsley described it as marking "the genre's perilous rite of passage through Britain's post-industrial urban landscape."
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