Bootlegged in Japan

Bootlegged in Japan
Live album by Napalm Death
Released	22 June 1998 (1998-06-22)
Recorded	5 August 1996 (1996-08-05)
Genre	Death metal grindcore
Length	71:12
Label	Earache
Producer	Napalm Death
Napalm Death chronology
Breed to Breathe (1997) Bootlegged in Japan (1998) Words from the Exit Wound (1998)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Chronicles of Chaos	8/10[2]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	4/10[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[4]

Bootlegged in Japan is a live album from British extreme metal band Napalm Death, released in June 1998 through Earache.^[5]

Background

The album features a concert from the 5 August 1996 at the Liquid Rooms, Tokyo. It was recorded as a bootleg and after the band received the recording, they found it was good enough to release it as an actual and official live album.^[6] In the inlay of the album the band wrote:

The official release of this album was prompted by the fact that we found anonymous bootleg tapes of the '96 Tokyo show coming from Japan, and felt that the recording captured the true uncompromising live spirit of Napalm Death.

— Napalm Death, Bootlegged in Japan (inlay). Napalm Death. Nottingham: Earache. 1998.

Release

Bootlegged in Japan was part of a 3-CD set together with the album Diatribes and the EP Greed Killing Earache re-released in 2010.^[7]

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Antibody"	Mark Greenway	Shane Embury	3:21
2.	"My Own Worst Enemy"	Embury	Embury	3:25
3.	"More Than Meets the Eye"	Greenway	Embury	3:18
4.	"Hung"	Embury, Greenway	Mitch Harris, Embury	3:57
5.	"Greed Killing"	Embury, Mitch Harris	Harris	3:00
6.	"Suffer the Children"	Greenway	Mick Harris	4:07
7.	"Mass Appeal Madness"	Greenway	Mitch Harris, Embury	3:31
8.	"Cursed to Crawl"	Embury	Embury	2:59
9.	"Glimpse into Genocide"	Embury	Jesse Pintado	2:47
10.	"I Abstain"	Greenway	Pintado	3:33
11.	"Lucid Fairytales"			1:12
12.	"Plague Rages"	Embury	Embury	3:43
13.	"Cold Forgiveness"	Embury	Mitch Harris, Pintado	3:58
14.	"Control"	Nicholas Bullen, Justin Broadrick	Bullen, Broadrick, Mick Harris	1:33
15.	"Diatribes"	Greenway	Embury, Mitch Harris	3:55
16.	"Life?"	Jim Whitely	Lee Dorrian, Whitely, Bill Steer, Mick Harris	1:16
17.	"Siege of Power"	Bullen, Broadrick	Bullen, Broadrick, Mick Harris	4:16
18.	"If the Truth Be Known"	Embury, Greenway	Embury	4:06
19.	"Unchallenged Hate"			2:14
20.	"Nazi Punks Fuck Off" (Dead Kennedys cover)	Jello Biafra	Biafra	1:26
21.	"From Enslavement to Obliteration"			1:37
22.	"The Kill"	Bullen, Broadrick	Bullen, Broadrick, Mick Harris	0:32
23.	"Scum"	Bullen, Broadrick	Bullen, Broadrick, Mick Harris	2:55
24.	"Ripe for the Breaking"	Greenway	Mitch Harris, Embury	4:39

Personnel

Napalm Death

• Mark "Barney" Greenway – lead vocals
• Jesse Pintado – guitar
• Mitch Harris – guitar
• Shane Embury – bass
• Danny Herrera – drums

References

1. Henderson, Alex. Napalm Death: Bootlegged in Japan > Overview at AllMusic
2. Wasylyk, Adam (1 September 1998). "Napalm Death - Bootlegged in Japan". Chronicles of Chaos. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
3. Popoff, Martin (2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 306307. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9.
4. Larkin, Colin, ed. (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. pp. 1015–1016. ISBN 978-0857125958.
5. "Napalm Death 'Bootlegged in Japan'". Earache. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
6. Hayes, Craig (22 July 2013). "Nippon Riffin': Japan's Nastiest (and Best) Metal, Part I". PopMatters. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
7. EvilG (27 October 2010). "Napalm Death – Diatribes/Greed Killing/Bootlegged in Japan 3 CD set now out in North America". Metal Rules. St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Retrieved 1 November 2014.