Harmony Corruption

Lee Dorrian and Bill Steer left after the band's 1989 tour of Japan, and Shane Embury and Mick Harris took on three new members: Barney Greenway on vocals and Jesse Pintado and Mitch Harris on guitars. Mitch Harris recalls the new five-piece rehearsing five days a week for two months. Mick Harris and Embury wrote most of the songs, while Mitch Harris brought in "Mind Snare" and Pintado "Inner Incineration". The album was recorded and mixed at Morrisound Recording in Tampa, Florida, and produced by Scott Burns with the band. Embury says it was Mick Harris who decided to go to Florida; Mitch Harris describes flying five musicians from Birmingham on a tight budget for a two-week session, with a rented house and a rented car. Greenway sang all of his parts in one day. The guitars were tuned higher than before, and Mick Harris had started to play double bass drums. John Tardy of Obituary and Glen Benton of Deicide sing backing vocals on "Unfit Earth". Earache released it on LP (MOSH 19), cassette and CD at the same time, and Music Week listed it among the new albums for the week of 30 July to 3 August 1990. Early LP copies came with a free live LP recorded at the ICA in London on 29 June 1990, and the CD adds an eleventh track, "Hiding Behind". On the UK Albums Chart for 9 to 15 September 1990 it entered at number 67 and stayed for one week, the band's first appearance on that chart.