Noise For Music's Sake

2CD

Given that they've been grinding since the early '80s and have more ex-members than most bands have songs, the Napalm Death discography can sometimes seem impenetrable to newcomers. This gigantic double-disc compilation is a great point of entry however, with the first disc spanning the entirety of the band's classic Earache years in an easily digestible package - there's even a handy family tree to help you keep track of where all those former members ended up. The second disc, meanwhile, is invaluable for both newcomers and die-hard fans alike, collecting all manner of out-takes, B-sides and live tracks, including a rare recording of the band teaming up with Godflesh to cover their classic 'Avalanche Master Song' at a 1990 London gig.

Disc: 1
1 The Kill
2 Scum
3 You Suffer
4 Deceiver
5 Hung
6 Antibody
7 Unchallenged Hate
8 Siege of Power
9 Greed Killing
10 Suffer the Children
11 Mass Appeal Madness
12 Next of Kin to Chaos
13 Judicial Slime
14 Lucid Fairytale
15 If the Truth Be Known
16 Plague Rages
17 Social Sterility
18 From Enslavement to Obliteration
19 Low Point
20 Contemptuous
21 Diatribes
22 Chains That Bind Us
23 Armageddon X 7
24 Breed to Breathe
25 The World Keeps Turning
26 The Infiltrator
27 Nazi Punks F**k Off
Disc: 2
1 Rise Above
2 Missing Link/Mentally Murdered
3 Walls of Confinement
4 Cause and Effect/No Mental Effort
5 Pride Assassin
6 Avalanche Master Song (Live at ICA)
7 One and the Same
8 Sick and Tired
9 Malignant Trait
10 Killing With Kindness
11 Means to an End
12 Insanity Excursion
13 Truth Drug
14 Living in Denial
15 Food Chains
16 Upwards and Uninterested
17 I Abstain
18 Politics of Common Sense
19 Internal Animosity
20 Scum
21 Life
22 Return to Nowhere
23 Remain Nameless
24 Twist the Knife
25 Deceiver - With Swanky's Intro (Live in Wacken, Belgium, 7/11/87, With MItch Dickinson of Unseen Terror On Guitar)
26 The Traitor (Live at the Mermaid, Birmingham, UK, 1/11/86 - Recorded By Shane Embury)
27 Abbatoir (Live at the Mermaid, Birmingham, UK, 30/3/86)