Utopia Banished

In 1991 Napalm Death toured the United States twice, and on the second of those tours Danny Herrera took over the drums from Mick Harris. Shane Embury says Herrera came in on Jesse Pintado's recommendation, without an audition. The band had a large stock of songs written after the 1991 EP Mass Appeal Madness, and the five of them, Barney Greenway, Pintado, Mitch Harris, Embury and Herrera, made this album from it. Embury says the aim was a tighter and stronger follow-up to Harmony Corruption. It is the first Napalm Death album with Herrera on drums. According to the back cover, it was recorded and mixed on 24 tracks at The Windings in Wrexham, North Wales, in two blocks, from 10 to 19 February and from 23 February to 2 March 1992. Colin Richardson produced it with the band, and Pete Coleman was co-engineer. The lyrics are shared between Greenway and Embury, and the music between Pintado, Mitch Harris and Embury, some songs written by two or three of them together. Earache released it in May 1992 on LP (MOSH 53), cassette (MOSH 53MC) and CD (MOSH 53CD), with a 7-inch added to a limited LP edition. It entered the UK Albums Chart at number 58 on the chart for 24 to 30 May 1992 and stayed for one week, higher than the number 67 Harmony Corruption had reached two years before. The 15 tracks include "The World Keeps Turning".