| Utopia Banished | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Napalm Death |
| Cover: | Utopia Banished (Napalm Death album) cover art.jpg |
| Recorded: | 10–19 February 1992 23 February – 2 March 1992 |
| Studio: | The Windings, Wrexham, Wales |
| Label: | Earache, Relativity |
| Producer: | Colin Richardson, Napalm Death |
| Prev Title: | Death by Manipulation |
| Prev Year: | 1991 |
| Next Title: | Fear, Emptiness, Despair |
| Next Year: | 1994 |
Utopia Banished is the fourth studio album by the British grindcore band Napalm Death. The album was released in 1992 by Earache Records.[1] It is the first album featuring Danny Herrera on drums following the departure of Mick Harris.Metal Hammer put it on the list of the 20 best metal album of 1992.
A limited edition of this album included a 3" bonus CD; the vinyl release included a bonus 7" containing the same material.
The 2007 re-release came as part of Earache's Classic Metal series with The DVD as bonus disc.
In 2012, Earache Records released a remastered edition on limited edition coloured vinyl and CD digipak.[2]
The EP "The World Keeps Turning" was released in July 1992 on vinyl and CD and contains two non-album tracks, "A Means to an End" and "Insanity Excursion".[3]
Napalm Death make use of samples in some songs on Utopia Banished. The tracks "Discordance" and "Awake (To a Life of Misery)" sample snippets from 1988 science fiction film They Live while the track "Contemptuous" takes a line from 1987 war film Full Metal Jacket.[4]