Bootlegged in Japan

Bootlegged in Japan is a live album recorded at the Liquid Room in Tokyo on 5 August 1996. The recording first circulated as a bootleg in Japan. The band thought it good enough to put out themselves, and Earache Records issued it as an official live album. On stage were Mark "Barney" Greenway, Mitch Harris, Jesse Pintado, Shane Embury and Danny Herrera, the same five who had made Diatribes, released that January. The set runs to twenty-four songs and opens with "Antibody". Seven of them come from Diatribes: "Greed Killing", "My Own Worst Enemy", "Cursed to Crawl", "Glimpse into Genocide", "Cold Forgiveness", the title track and "Ripe for the Breaking". The main set also includes "Suffer the Children", "Mass Appeal Madness" and "Plague Rages". The last seven songs, from "If the Truth Be Known" to the closing "Ripe for the Breaking", are the encore, which takes in "Unchallenged Hate", "From Enslavement to Obliteration", "Scum" and "Nazi Punks Fuck Off", a song written by Jello Biafra. Earache Records released it on 22 June 1998, on CD only, as MOSH 209 CD. Three of its recordings, "Hung", "Greed Killing" and "Suffer the Children", were later added as bonus tracks to the American edition of Words from the Exit Wound, and the album itself was reissued in a three-CD set together with Diatribes and the Greed Killing EP.