Napalm Death (partially lost demo tracks from grindcore metal band; 1980s)

The band's logo.

Status: Partially Lost

Napalm Death is a British Grindcore/Death Metal band from Birmingham, West Midlands. Formed in 1981 the band started as a Hardcore Punk band with Nicholas Bullen but after the joining of Justin Broadrick, the band started to make a more extreme and fast sound that still has on the present day. from 1982 to 1986 the band appeared in some Punk compilation albums and recorded 7 demo tapes with 3 of them being fully available online. After the exit of Mick Harris in 1991 the band has no members from the original lineup.

Demos

Halloween (1982)

In 1982, Napalm Death did their first demo. the band only sent the tapes to friends in a C30 format, with a cover made by Nicholas Bullen.

"Punk is a Rotting Corpse" is the first music ever made by the Group.

This is the only demo were all the songs are lost.

#	Song Title	Status
01	Rival Factions	Lost
02	Pollution	Lost
03	Napalm	Lost
04	Screaming Pain	Lost
05	Traditional Society	Lost
06	Punk is a Rotting Corpse	Lost
07	Bloodhunt	Lost
08	War	Lost
09	The Doomsday Cometh	Lost

Nicholas Bullen - Vocals
Miles "Rat" Ratladge - Drums
Finbar Quinn - Bass
Daryl "Sid" Fideski - Guitars

And, Like Sheep, We Have All Gone Astray (1982)

Also in 1982, they released a second demo. the demo was released by Obituary Tapes an old label from Obituary Fanzine. The title of the recording is a paraphrase of a phrase from the text of The Holy Bible of the Christian religion (Isaiah 53:6). the tapes had a C40 cassette format and it was sent via mail and also had a cover by Nicholas Bullen.

#	Song Title	Status
01	The Good Book	Found
02	Call this Aborted?	Lost
03	A Stagnant Land	Lost
04	Punk is a Rotting Corpse	Lost
05	System's Scapegoat	Lost
06	Industrial Pollution	Lost
07	Traditional Society	Lost
08	The Doomsday Cometh	Lost
09	What is my Country?	Found
10	Confined	Lost
11	Rival Faction's	Lost
12	Krapper's Delight	Lost
13	Mohawk's Revenge	Lost
14	The Room with the Shuttered Window	Lost

Nicholas "Nik Napalmed" Bullen - Vocals
Miles "Rat" Ratladge - Drums
Robb O - Bass, Backing Vocals
Daryl "Sid" Fideski - Guitars

Kak (1983)

In 1983, Napalm Death made their third demo. the tape never had an official release and it was only released to friends. The tape didn't have a cover.

The tape was made on April 1st, 1983

#	Song Title	Status
01	Curfew	Lost
02	The Good Book	Found
03	The Glue Bag Song	Lost (Only Lyrics)
04	Traditional Society	Lost
05	The Crucifixion of Possessions	Found
06	Punk is a Rotting Corpse	Lost
07	Blame	Lost
08	(K)rappers Delight	Lost
09	What Is My Country?	Found
10	The Doomsday Cometh	Lost

Nicholas Bullen - Vocals
Miles "Rat" Ratladge - Drums
Finbar Quinn - Bass
Graham "Robbo" Robertson - Guitars

Unpopular Yawns of Middle-Class Warfare (1983)

Also in 1983, Napalm Death made their fourth demo. the tape also never had an official release and it was only released to friends. The title is a parody of the slogan "Popular Yarns of Class Warfare" used by various Extreme Punk groups.

The demo has an untitled instrumental song with was probably made by Finbar Quinn the bass player and back vocalist in the demo.

Caught in a Dream is the oldest song to appear in their first album released 'Scum' in 1987 but the version in this demo is different from that appears in the album.

#	Song Title	Status
01	Systems Scapegoat	Lost
02	Blame	Lost
03	Screaming Pain (Part 2)	Lost
04	Untitled (Fin's Song)	Lost
05	The Crucifixion of Possessions	Found
06	Caught in a Dream (Original Version)	Lost

Nicholas Bullen - Vocals
Miles "Rat" Ratladge - Drums
Finbar Quinn - Bass, Backing Vocals
Graham "Robbo" Robertson - Guitars

Hatred Surge (1985)

After a 2 years hiatus in 1985, the band released their fifth demo. this demo is the first to have a more extreme sound, 4 of the 9 tracks appear on 'Scum'.

Cheswick Green is a different version of the Glue Bag Song, the instrumental is the same but the lyrics are different.

The demo is fully available online.

#	Song Title	Status
01	What Man Can Do	Found
02	Instinct of Survival	Found
03	Abbatoir	Found
04	Control	Found
05	Sacrificed	Found
06	So Sad	Found
07	Caught in a Dream	Found
08	Private Death	Found
09	Cheswick Green (live)	Found

Nicholas Bullen - Vocals
Miles "Rat" Ratladge - Drums
Pete "Peanut" Shaw - Bass
Justin Broadwick - Guitars

From Enslavement to Obliteration (1986)

This demo is the sixth demo recorded by the band in 1986 and also has the same name as their second album released in 1988. according to Nicholas Bullen, this was made without his permission.

This is the first appearance of the most famous song of the band "You suffer" but instead of having 1 second, he has 4 seconds in this demo.

The demo is fully available online.

#	Song Title	Status
01	Multinational Corporations	Found
02	Instinct of Survival	Found
03	Unclean	Found
04	Sacrificed	Found
05	Siege of Power	Found
06	Caught... in a Dream	Found
07	What Man Can Do	Found
08	Control	Found
09	Death by Manipulation	Found
10	Abattoir	Found
11	Private Death	Found
12	The Kill	Found
13	You Suffer	Found

Nicholas "Nik" Bullen - Vocals, Bass
Mick "Mickey" Harris - Drums
Justin "Jus" Broadwick - Guitars, Vocals

Scum (1986)

This is the sixth and last demo recorded before the first album, this demo has the same name as the album and consists of the Entire Side A of Scum, at first the band wanted to release the 12 tracks in a split with some other band but late in that year they entered in contact with Digby Pearson, Founder of the Earache Records and in May of 1987 with an almost totally different lineup they recorded the Side B of Scum.

Side A on the album use the same audio of the demo and it's fully available online.

#	Song Title	Status
01	Multinational Corporations	Found
02	Instinct of Survival	Found
03	The Kill	Found
04	Scum	Found
05	Caught... in a Dream	Found
06	Polluted Minds	Found
07	Sacrificed	Found
08	Siege of Power	Found
09	Control	Found
10	Born on Your Knees	Found
11	Human Garbage	Found
12	You Suffer	Found

Nicholas Bullen - Vocals, Bass
Mick Harris - Drums
Justin Broadwick - Guitars, Vocals (track 6)

Gallery

Cover from the demo And, Like Sheep, We Have All Gone Astray (1982)
Cover and tape from Ruptured Gut (1982) compilation tape were appeared the found songs The Good Book and What is My Country?
Cover from the compilation album Bullshit Detector Vol 3 were its included the song The Crucifixion of Possessions
Cover and tape from the demo Hatred Surge (1985)
Original photo of the Hatred Surge's cover (Left to Right:Justin Broadwick, Nicholas Bullen and Mick Harris)
Cover from the demo From Enslavement to Obliteration (1986)
Cover from the demo Scum (1986)

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