Bootlegged in Japan
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{{Infobox album
| name = Bootlegged in Japan
| type = live
| artist = Napalm Death
| cover = Bootlegged in Japan.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{Start date|1998|6|22|df=y}}
| recorded = {{Start date|1996|8|5|df=y}}
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = {{hlist|Death metal|grindcore}}
| length = {{Duration|m=71|s=12}}
| label = Earache
| producer = Napalm Death
| prev_title = Breed to Breathe
| prev_year = 1997
| next_title = Words from the Exit Wound
| next_year = 1998
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{AllMusic |class=album |id=bootlegged-in-japan-mw0000599770 |label=Napalm Death: Bootlegged in Japan > Overview |first=Alex |last=Henderson }}
| rev2 = Chronicles of Chaos
| rev2Score = 8/10{{cite web |url=http://www.chroniclesofchaos.com/articles.aspx?id=2-927 |title=Napalm Death – Bootlegged in Japan |first=Adam |last=Wasylyk |date=1 September 1998 |work=Chronicles of Chaos |accessdate=26 October 2014}}
| rev3 = Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal
| rev3score = 4/10{{cite book |last1=Popoff |first1=Martin |author-link1=Martin Popoff |title=The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties |publisher=Collector's Guide Publishing |year=2007 |location=Burlington, Ontario, Canada |isbn=978-1-894959-62-9 |pages=306307}}
| rev4 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
| rev4score = {{Rating|2|5}}{{cite book|editor-last=Larkin|editor-first=Colin|editor-link=Colin Larkin|title=Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=Omnibus Press|edition=5th concise|isbn=978-0857125958|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music |pages=1015–1016}}
}}
Bootlegged in Japan is a live album from British extreme metal band Napalm Death, released in June 1998 through Earache.{{cite web |url=http://www.earache.com/catalogue/mosh209.php |title=Napalm Death 'Bootlegged in Japan' |work=Earache |accessdate=1 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923232604/http://www.earache.com/catalogue/mosh209.php |archive-date=23 September 2015 |url-status=dead }}
Background
The album features a concert from 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.popmatters.com/column/173238-nippon-riffin-a-two-part-survey-of-japanese-metal/ |title=Nippon Riffin': Japan's Nastiest (and Best) Metal, Part I |first=Craig |last=Hayes |date=22 July 2013 |work=PopMatters |accessdate=1 November 2014}} In the inlay of the album the band wrote:{{Blockquote |text=The official release of this album was prompted by the fact that we found anonymous bootleg tapes of the '96 Tokyo show coming from Japan, and felt that the recording captured the true uncompromising live spirit of Napalm Death. |sign=Napalm Death |source={{Cite AV media notes |title=Bootlegged in Japan |others=Napalm Death |year=1998 |type=inlay |publisher=Earache |location=Nottingham}}}}
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.{{cite news |author=EvilG |date=27 October 2010 |title=Napalm Death – Diatribes/Greed Killing/Bootlegged in Japan 3 CD set now out in North America |url=http://www.metal-rules.com/metalnews/2010/10/27/napalm-death-diatribesgreed-killingbootlegged-in-japan-3-cd-set-now-out-in-north-america/ |newspaper=Metal Rules |location=St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador |accessdate=1 November 2014}}
Track listing
{{Track listing
| title1 = Antibody
| lyrics1 = Mark Greenway
| music1 = Shane Embury
| length1 = 3:21
| title2 = My Own Worst Enemy
| lyrics2 = Embury
| music2 = Embury
| length2 = 3:25
| title3 = More Than Meets the Eye
| lyrics3 = Greenway
| music3 = Embury
| length3 = 3:18
| title4 = Hung
| lyrics4 = Embury, Greenway
| music4 = Mitch Harris, Embury
| length4 = 3:57
| title5 = Greed Killing
| lyrics5 = Embury, Mitch Harris
| music5 = Harris
| length5 = 3:00
| title6 = Suffer the Children
| lyrics6 = Greenway
| music6 = Mick Harris
| length6 = 4:07
| title7 = Mass Appeal Madness
| lyrics7 = Greenway
| music7 = Mitch Harris, Embury
| length7 = 3:31
| title8 = Cursed to Crawl
| lyrics8 = Embury
| music8 = Embury
| length8 = 2:59
| title9 = Glimpse into Genocide
| lyrics9 = Embury
| music9 = Jesse Pintado
| length9 = 2:47
| title10 = I Abstain
| lyrics10 = Greenway
| music10 = Pintado
| length10 = 3:33
| title11 = Lucid Fairytales
| length11 = 1:12
| title12 = Plague Rages
| lyrics12 = Embury
| music12 = Embury
| length12 = 3:43
| title13 = Cold Forgiveness
| lyrics13 = Embury
| music13 = Mitch Harris, Pintado
| length13 = 3:58
| title14 = Control
| lyrics14 = Nicholas Bullen, Justin Broadrick
| music14 = Bullen, Broadrick, Mick Harris
| length14 = 1:33
| title15 = Diatribes
| lyrics15 = Greenway
| music15 = Embury, Mitch Harris
| length15 = 3:55
| title16 = Life?
| lyrics16 = Jim Whitely
| music16 = Lee Dorrian, Whitely, Bill Steer, Mick Harris
| length16 = 1:16
| title17 = Siege of Power
| lyrics17 = Bullen, Broadrick
| music17 = Bullen, Broadrick, Mick Harris
| length17 = 4:16
| title18 = If the Truth Be Known
| lyrics18 = Embury, Greenway
| music18 = Embury
| length18 = 4:06
| title19 = Unchallenged Hate
| length19 = 2:14
| title20 = Nazi Punks Fuck Off
| note20 = Dead Kennedys cover
| lyrics20 = Jello Biafra
| music20 = Biafra
| length20 = 1:26
| title21 = From Enslavement to Obliteration
| length21 = 1:37
| title22 = The Kill
| lyrics22 = Bullen, Broadrick
| music22 = Bullen, Broadrick, Mick Harris
| length22 = 0:32
| title23 = Scum
| lyrics23 = Bullen, Broadrick
| music23 = Bullen, Broadrick, Mick Harris
| length23 = 2:55
| title24 = Ripe for the Breaking
| lyrics24 = Greenway
| music24 = Mitch Harris, Embury
| length24 = 4:39
}}
Personnel
=Napalm Death=
- Mark "Barney" Greenway – lead vocals
- Jesse Pintado – guitar
- Mitch Harris – guitar
- Shane Embury – bass
- Danny Herrera – drums