Utopia Banished

Utopia Banished
Studio album by
Released23 June 1992 (1992-06-23)
Recorded10–19 February 1992
23 February – 2 March 1992
StudioThe Windings, Wrexham, Wales
Genre
Length39:04
LabelEarache, Relativity
ProducerColin Richardson, Napalm Death
Napalm Death chronology
Death by Manipulation
(1991)
Utopia Banished
(1992)
Fear, Emptiness, Despair
(1994)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal4/10[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
Select[4]
Spin Alternative Record Guide5/10[5]

Utopia Banished is the fourth studio album by the British grindcore band Napalm Death. It was released in 1992 by Earache Records.[6] It is the first album featuring Danny Herrera on drums following the departure of Mick Harris. Metal Hammer ranked it as one of the 20 best metal albums of 1992.

  1. ^ Birchmeier, Jason. Napalm Death: Utopia Banished > Overview at AllMusic. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  2. ^ Popoff, Martin (2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 305. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9.
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin, ed. (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. pp. 1015–1016. ISBN 978-0857125958.
  4. ^ Perry, Andrew (July 1992). "Napalm Death: Utopia Banished". Select. EMAP. pp. 74–75.
  5. ^ Norris, Chris (1995). "Napalm Death". In Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig (eds.). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. pp. 265–266. ISBN 0-679-75574-8.
  6. ^ "Napalm Death 'Utopia Banished'". Earache.com. Earache. Retrieved 19 October 2014.