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Coded Smears and More Uncommon Slurs
2018 compilation album by Napalm Death
Coded Smears and More Uncommon Slurs is a compilation album by British grindcore band Napalm Death, released on 30 March 2018 through Century Media.[1] It contains previously unreleased material from various album recording sessions, b-sides, limited edition bonus tracks and split recordings. A music video for "Standardization", the compilation's opening track, was released on 8 May 2018.[2]
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| Released | 30 March 2018 (2018-03-30) | |||
| Recorded | 2003–2016 | |||
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| Length | 92:23 | |||
| Label | Century Media | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metal Hammer | 8/10[3] |
| Blabbermouth.net | 9/10[4] |
Coded Smears and More Uncommon Slurs was well received by critics. Dean Brown of Metal Hammer considered the album "certainly a very useful stopgap release for fans of the legendary band who have missed out on all of the extra gems included on various release formats during this period", stressing the high quality of the songwriting and the order of the songs: "By eschewing the chronological approach, this compilation has been carefully arranged to flow naturally like a studio album.".[3] Jay H. Gorania, rating the album 9 out of 10 for Blabbermouth.net, shared this view: "It truly feels like a new album worth digesting like any other new Napalm effort." He concluded that the album "isn't anything new. But it does represent everything that is right with intense music in terms of sound and spirit. The masters deliver yet again."[4]
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Origin | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Standardization" | Greenway | Embury | Utilitarian album sessions | 2:46 |
| 2. | "Oh So Pseudo" | Greenway | Harris | Apex Predator – Easy Meat album sessions | 2:36 |
| 3. | "It Failed to Explode" | Greenway | Embury | Utilitarian album sessions | 3:38 |
| 4. | "Losers" | Greenway | Harris | The Code Is Red...Long Live the Code album sessions | 4:21 |
| 5. | "Call That an Option?" | Greenway | Embury | Smear Campaign album sessions | 3:03 |
| 6. | "Caste as Waste" | Greenway | Embury | Apex Predator – Easy Meat album sessions | 3:06 |
| 7. | "We Hunt in Packs" | Greenway | Harris | Time Waits for No Slave album sessions | 3:49 |
| 8. | "Oxygen of Duplicity" | Greenway | Harris | Melvins Sugar Daddy Live split series Vol. 9 | 3:30 |
| 9. | "Paracide" (Gepøpel cover) | Gepøpel | Gepøpel | Apex Predator – Easy Meat album sessions | 1:39 |
| 10. | "Critical Gluttonous Mass" | Greenway | Harris | Apex Predator – Easy Meat album sessions | 2:26 |
| 11. | "Aim Without an Aim" | Greenway | Harris | Utilitarian album sessions | 3:04 |
| 12. | "An Extract (Strip it Clean)" | Greenway | Embury | The Mission Creep split EP with Heaven Shall Burn | 3:12 |
| 13. | "Phonetics for the Stupefied" | Greenway | Harris | Forever Mountain / Phonetics for the Stupefied split EP with Voivod | 3:29 |
| 14. | "Suppressed Hunger" | Greenway | Embury | Time Waits for No Slave album sessions | 3:09 |
| 15. | "To Go Off and Things" (Cardiacs cover) | Mark Cawthra, Tim Smith | Cawthra, Smith | Melvins Sugar Daddy Live split series Vol. 9 | 2:29 |
| Total length: | 46:17 | ||||
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Origin | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Clouds of Cancer / Victims of Ignorance" (G-Anx cover) | G-Anx | G-Anx | Apex Predator – Easy Meat album sessions | 2:05 |
| 2. | "What Is Past Is Prologue" | Embury | Embury | Apex Predator – Easy Meat album sessions | 2:56 |
| 3. | "Like Piss to a Sting" | Greenway | Embury | Napalm Death / Melt Banana split EP | 1:31 |
| 4. | "Where the Barren Is Fertile" | Greenway | Embury | Napalm Death / Melt Banana split EP | 2:22 |
| 5. | "Crash the Pose" | Gauze | Gauze | The Code Is Red...Long Live the Code album sessions | 1:32 |
| 6. | "Earthwire" | Harris | Harris | April 2015 Nepal earthquake DZI foundation benefit track | 2:54 |
| 7. | "Will by Mouth" | Greenway | Embury | Converge / Napalm Death split EP | 1:25 |
| 8. | "Everything in Mono" | Greenway | Harris | Utilitarian album sessions | 2:48 |
| 9. | "Omnipresent Knife in Your Back" | Greenway | Embury | Time Waits for No Slave album sessions | 5:15 |
| 10. | "Lifeline" (Sacrilege cover) | Lynda Hughes | Damien Thompson | Respect Your Roots Worldwide compilation | 3:18 |
| 11. | "Youth Offender" | Greenway | Embury | B-side of the Analysis Paralysis single off the Utilitarian album | 2:07 |
| 12. | "No Impediment to Triumph (Bhopal)" | Greenway | Embury | Converge / Napalm Death split EP | 3:02 |
| 13. | "Legacy Was Yesterday" | Embury, Greenway | Embury | Decibel flexi series No. 5 | 2:15 |
| 14. | "Outconditioned" (Despair cover) | Waldemar Sorychta | Sorychta | Covering 20 Years of Extremes compilation | 2:25 |
| 15. | "Atheist Runt" | Greenway | Embury | Smear Campaign album sessions | 6:07 |
| 16. | "Weltschmerz (Extended Apocalyptic Version)" | Harris | Smear Campaign album sessions | 4:04 | |
| Total length: | 46:06 | ||||
Napalm Death
- Barney Greenway – vocals
- Mitch Harris – guitars
- Shane Embury – bass
- Danny Herrera – drums
Technical personnel
- Frode Sylthe – album art, layout
- "Napalm Death: New Single Off 'Coded Smears and More Uncommon Slurs' Compilation Launched; Massive Touring Update!". centurymedia.com. Dortmund: Century Media. 9 March 2018. Archived from the original on 23 January 2019. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
- "Napalm Death Releases 'Standardization' Video". Blabbermouth.net. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- Brown, Dean (May 2018). "Napalm Death: Coded Smears and More Uncommon Slurs". Metal Hammer (308). United Kingdom: Future Publishing: 86. ISSN 0955-1190.
- Gorania, Jay H. (29 May 2018). "Coded Smears And More Uncommon Slurs - Napalm Death". Blabbermouth.net. Retrieved 6 June 2018.