Bootlegged in Japan

1998 live album by Napalm Death

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:Bootlegged in Japan (inlay). Napalm Death. Nottingham: Earache. 1998.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)

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, backing vocals
Shane Embury – bass, backing vocals
Danny Herrera – drums

References

^ Henderson, Alex. Napalm Death: Bootlegged in Japan > Overview at AllMusic
^ Wasylyk, Adam (1 September 1998). "Napalm Death - Bootlegged in Japan". Chronicles of Chaos. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
^ 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.
^ Larkin, Colin, ed. (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. pp. 1015–1016. ISBN 978-0857125958.
^ "Napalm Death 'Bootlegged in Japan'". Earache. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
^ Hayes, Craig (22 July 2013). "Nippon Riffin': Japan's Nastiest (and Best) Metal, Part I". PopMatters. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
^ 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.