The Codex Necro is the first studio album by British extreme metal band Anaal Nathrakh. It was released on 22 November 2001.
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| Released | 22 November 2001 | |||
| Genre | Black metal | |||
| Length | 44:45 | |||
| Label | Mordgrimm | |||
| Producer | Anaal Nathrakh | |||
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The album was re-released on 24 April 2006, with four additional bonus tracks taken from the John Peel BBC Radio One Session broadcast on 16 December 2003.[1] It was again re-released in 2009, with four additional bonus tracks taken from the We Will Fucking Kill You demo.[2]
Background edit
The person being suffocated on the album cover is Mick Kenney's younger brother.[3] The album features sound samples from films such as Event Horizon, Excalibur, The Legend of Hell House, Omen III: The Final Conflict and Platoon[citation needed]. The 2006 re-release features the first ever live performance of "The Oblivion Gene", later to appear in its full re-recorded form on the subsequent album Domine Non Es Dignus.[1] The title "Human, All Too Fucking Human" is a reference to Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical text Human, All Too Human (Menschliches, Allzumenschliches, 1878).
Reception edit
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [4] |
Upon its release, The Codex Necro received positive reviews and numerous "album of the month" awards from various publications,[citation needed] and in 2009 and 2010 appeared in several notable "albums of the decade" lists, such as the Terrorizer Critics' "Albums of the Decade",[citation needed] Decibel magazine's "100 Albums of the Decade",[citation needed] and "The Decade's Best Metal" on avclub.com.[5]
Track listing edit
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "The Supreme Necrotic Audnance" | 4:43 |
| 2. | "When Humanity Is Cancer" | 5:19 |
| 3. | "Submission Is for the Weak" | 5:16 |
| 4. | "Pandemonic Hyperblast" | 3:52 |
| 5. | "Paradigm Shift – Annihilation" | 6:07 |
| 6. | "The Technogoat" | 4:38 |
| 7. | "Incipid Flock" | 5:22 |
| 8. | "Human, All Too Fucking Human" | 4:48 |
| 9. | "The Codex Necro" | 6:07 |
| Total length: | 44:45 | |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 10. | "Pandemonic Hyperblast" | 3:18 |
| 11. | "How the Angels Fly In (We Can Never Be Forgiven)" | 2:48 |
| 12. | "Submission Is for the Weak" | 4:58 |
| 13. | "The Oblivion Gene" | 2:59 |
| Total length: | 58:48 | |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 10. | "Negrogeddon" | 4:20 |
| 11. | "Pandemonic Hyperblast" | 3:15 |
| 12. | "The Codex Necro" | 5:11 |
| 13. | "When Humanity Is Cancer" | 4:29 |
| Total length: | 62:00 | |
Personnel edit
- V.I.T.R.I.O.L. – vocals
- Irrumator – all instruments
Production edit
- Anaal Nathrakh – arrangement, production, recording, engineering, audio mixing
References edit
- ^ a b Anaal Nathrakh Are '70 Percent Done' Recording New Album Archived 2009-07-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ [1] Archived August 20, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Interview with Anaal Nathrakh :: Maelstrom :: Issue No 10 Archived 2007-07-15 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "The Codex Necro - Anaal Nathrakh | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic.
- ^ Pierce, Leonard (1 February 2012). "The decade's best metal | Music | Best of". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 9 February 2012.