NAPALM DEATH’s Vocalist Discusses Why He Likes Utopia Banished Over Harmony Corruption – Metal Injection

Napalm Death's 1990 album Harmony Corruption is the band's first to feature vocalist Barney Greenway after the departure of Lee Dorrian. The album is widely considered to be a classic, though Greenway revealed in an interview with The Jasta Show that he actually prefers 1992's Utopia Banished.

Greenway said Utopia Banished was what he wanted Harmony Corruption to be in terms of harshness and extremity, and that he doesn't love the production on Harmony Corruption. Greenway is careful to point out that his dislike of Harmony Corruption's production has nothing to do with Scott Burns as a producer it was just a product of its time and was produced in line with the sound back then.

"Harmony Corruption is a really funny album because there is a lot of people that come to us, they'll say 'right. My favorite albums [are] Scum or Harmony Corruption.' When people present that to me and they're like, 'yeah, [Harmony Corruption] is the best,' [and] I'm like 'no, not it's not actually.'"

"Utopia Banished to me was a better album, and recording it was better. It's more harsh, it's more extreme it's what I actually wanted to do [and] what I would have preferred to do with Harmony Corruption. I like the Harmony Corruption album. I like the songs on there, some of them. Some of the moments on there, not so great for me. But the production I'm not blaming anybody for this because Scott did what Scott thought he should do, you know, for other bands, and it's not bad. It's just not a Napalm Death production as far as I'm concerned.

"Having said all that, it is a product of its time and it was a stepping stone for us to go other places as a band and so I wouldn't change it for the world, you know? I've no interest in doing a remix or recording any of the tracks."

And to clarify Greenway makes it clear through the interview that Napalm Death is not at all interested in re-recording old material or doing reissues unless there's a genuinely good reason for it.

Napalm Death and Brujeria will hit the road this October for their Campaign For Musical Destruction Tour. The tour will feature Frozen Soul on most dates, as well as appearances from MDC and Cryptic Slaughter. Get the full routing below.

w/ Brujeria

10/12 Santa Cruz, CA Catalyst10/13 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall10/14 Bend, OR Domino Room10/15 Seattle, WA The Showbox (w/ Cryptic Slaughter)10/16 Portland, OR Bossanova Ballroom (w/ Cryptic Slaughter)10/18 Salt Lake City, UT Metro Music Hall10/19 Denver, CO Bluebird

w/ Brujeria, Frozen Soul & MDC

10/21 St. Louis, MO Red Flag10/22 Chicago, IL Thalia Hall10/23 Cleveland, OH Grog Shop10/25 Pittsburgh, PA Mr. Small's10/26 Bensalem, PA Broken Goblet10/27 Boston, MA Paradise10/28 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall Of Williamsburg10/29 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom10/31 Carrboro, NC Cat's Cradle

w/ Brujeria & Frozen Soul

11/1 Athens, GA 40 Watt11/3 Orlando, FL The Social11/4 Tampa, FL Crowbar11/5 West Palm Beach, FL Respectable Street11/7 Birmingham, AL Saturn11/8 Louisville, KY Headliners Music Hall11/9 Nashville, TN Basement East

w/ Brujeria, Frozen Soul & MDC

11/11 Houston, TX Scout Bar11/12 San Antonio, TX Paper Tiger11/13 Austin, TX Mohawk11/14 Denton, TX Rubber Gloves

w/ Brujeria & Frozen Soul

11/16 El Paso, TX Rockhouse Outdoors11/17 Albuquerque, NM Sunshine Theater11/18 Phoenix, AZ Nile Theater11/19 Los Angeles, CA Belasco Theater (w/ Cryptic Slaughter)

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