NAPALM DEATH — From Enslavement to Obliteration (review)

NAPALM DEATH — From Enslavement to Obliteration album cover Album · 1988 · Grindcore Buy this album from MMA partners
4.5/5 ·
Warthur
Bookended by the sole tracks on it with a running time of over three minutes, From Enslavement To Obliteration is a more sonically consistent album than the preceding Scum - it's the first Napalm Death album to be played by the same lineup from start to finish, for one thing - and it's also the one Napalm Death album which really chased after the whole the "super-short songs" thing as an aesthetic decision. Side 2 of Scum offers the precedent, of course, but it's here that Napalm Death perfect the form, with 27 songs packed into the album's 34 minute running time - many of which are less than 2 minutes, 11 of which don't even last a minute, and a couple of which don't even last 10 seconds.

Napalm Death would never embrace this songwriting style quite so thoroughly ever again, with their subsequent albums concentrating more on fully developed longer songs (well, "longer" by their standards), but From Enslavement To Obliteration is a great example of a crazy idea taken to an even crazier extreme.
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