Coded Smears and More Uncommon Slurs

Coded Smears and More Uncommon Slurs is a compilation album by British grindcore band Napalm Death, released on 30 March 2018 through Century Media.[1] It contains previously unreleased material from various album recording sessions, b-sides, limited edition bonus tracks and split recordings. A music video for "Standardization", the compilation's opening track, was released on 8 May 2018.[2]

Coded Smears and More Uncommon Slurs
Compilation album by
Napalm Death
Released30 March 2018 (2018-03-30)
Recorded2003–2016
Genre
Length92:23
LabelCentury Media
Napalm Death chronology
Apex Predator – Easy Meat
(2015)		 Coded Smears and More Uncommon Slurs
(2018)		 Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism
(2020)

Critical reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Metal Hammer8/10[3]
Blabbermouth.net9/10[4]

Coded Smears and More Uncommon Slurs was well received by critics. Dean Brown of Metal Hammer considered the album "certainly a very useful stopgap release for fans of the legendary band who have missed out on all of the extra gems included on various release formats during this period", stressing the high quality of the songwriting and the order of the songs: "By eschewing the chronological approach, this compilation has been carefully arranged to flow naturally like a studio album.".[3] Jay H. Gorania, rating the album 9 out of 10 for Blabbermouth.net, shared this view: "It truly feels like a new album worth digesting like any other new Napalm effort." He concluded that the album "isn't anything new. But it does represent everything that is right with intense music in terms of sound and spirit. The masters deliver yet again."[4]

Track listing
Disc 1
No.TitleLyricsMusicOriginLength
1."Standardization"GreenwayEmburyUtilitarian album sessions2:46
2."Oh So Pseudo"GreenwayHarrisApex Predator – Easy Meat album sessions2:36
3."It Failed to Explode"GreenwayEmburyUtilitarian album sessions3:38
4."Losers"GreenwayHarrisThe Code Is Red...Long Live the Code album sessions4:21
5."Call That an Option?"GreenwayEmburySmear Campaign album sessions3:03
6."Caste as Waste"GreenwayEmburyApex Predator – Easy Meat album sessions3:06
7."We Hunt in Packs"GreenwayHarrisTime Waits for No Slave album sessions3:49
8."Oxygen of Duplicity"GreenwayHarrisMelvins Sugar Daddy Live split series Vol. 93:30
9."Paracide" (Gepøpel cover)GepøpelGepøpelApex Predator – Easy Meat album sessions1:39
10."Critical Gluttonous Mass"GreenwayHarrisApex Predator – Easy Meat album sessions2:26
11."Aim Without an Aim"GreenwayHarrisUtilitarian album sessions3:04
12."An Extract (Strip it Clean)"GreenwayEmburyThe Mission Creep split EP with Heaven Shall Burn3:12
13."Phonetics for the Stupefied"GreenwayHarrisForever Mountain / Phonetics for the Stupefied split EP with Voivod3:29
14."Suppressed Hunger"GreenwayEmburyTime Waits for No Slave album sessions3:09
15."To Go Off and Things" (Cardiacs cover)Mark Cawthra, Tim SmithCawthra, SmithMelvins Sugar Daddy Live split series Vol. 92:29
Total length:46:17
Disc 2
No.TitleLyricsMusicOriginLength
1."Clouds of Cancer / Victims of Ignorance" (G-Anx cover)G-AnxG-AnxApex Predator – Easy Meat album sessions2:05
2."What Is Past Is Prologue"EmburyEmburyApex Predator – Easy Meat album sessions2:56
3."Like Piss to a Sting"GreenwayEmburyNapalm Death / Melt Banana split EP1:31
4."Where the Barren Is Fertile"GreenwayEmburyNapalm Death / Melt Banana split EP2:22
5."Crash the Pose"GauzeGauzeThe Code Is Red...Long Live the Code album sessions1:32
6."Earthwire"HarrisHarrisApril 2015 Nepal earthquake DZI foundation benefit track2:54
7."Will by Mouth"GreenwayEmburyConverge / Napalm Death split EP1:25
8."Everything in Mono"GreenwayHarrisUtilitarian album sessions2:48
9."Omnipresent Knife in Your Back"GreenwayEmburyTime Waits for No Slave album sessions5:15
10."Lifeline" (Sacrilege cover)Lynda HughesDamien ThompsonRespect Your Roots Worldwide compilation3:18
11."Youth Offender"GreenwayEmburyB-side of the Analysis Paralysis single off the Utilitarian album2:07
12."No Impediment to Triumph (Bhopal)"GreenwayEmburyConverge / Napalm Death split EP3:02
13."Legacy Was Yesterday"Embury, GreenwayEmburyDecibel flexi series No. 52:15
14."Outconditioned" (Despair cover)Waldemar SorychtaSorychtaCovering 20 Years of Extremes compilation2:25
15."Atheist Runt"GreenwayEmburySmear Campaign album sessions6:07
16."Weltschmerz (Extended Apocalyptic Version)" HarrisSmear Campaign album sessions4:04
Total length:46:06

Personnel

Napalm Death

Technical personnel
  • Frode Sylthe – album art, layout

References
  1. "Napalm Death: New Single Off 'Coded Smears and More Uncommon Slurs' Compilation Launched; Massive Touring Update!". centurymedia.com. Dortmund: Century Media. 9 March 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  2. "Napalm Death Releases 'Standardization' Video". Blabbermouth.net. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  3. Brown, Dean (May 2018). "Napalm Death: Coded Smears and More Uncommon Slurs". Metal Hammer. United Kingdom: Future Publishing (308): 86. ISSN 0955-1190.
  4. Gorania, Jay H. (29 May 2018). "Coded Smears And More Uncommon Slurs - Napalm Death". Blabbermouth.net. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
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