Length 44:45 Total Fucking Necro (demo)(1999) The Codex Necro(2001) Release date 27 November 2001 | Label Mordgrimm | |
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Released 27 November 2001 (2001-11-27) Similar Anaal Nathrakh albums, Black metal albums | ||
Anaal nathrakh the codex necro full album
The Codex Necro is the first full-length album by British black metal band Anaal Nathrakh, released on 27 November 2001.
Contents
- Anaal nathrakh the codex necro full album
- Anaal nathrakh the codex necro
- Background
- Reception
- Personnel
- Production
- Songs
- References
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. It was again re-released in 2009, with four additional bonus tracks taken from the We Will Fucking Kill You demo.
Anaal nathrakh the codex necro
Background
The person being suffocated on the album cover is Mick Kenney's younger brother. The album features sound samples from films such as Event Horizon, Excalibur, The Legend of Hell House, The Final Conflict and Platoon. The live performance of "The Oblivion Gene" was the first ever performance of "The Oblivion Gene", later to appear in its full re-recorded form on the subsequent album Domine Non Es Dignus. The title "Human, All Too Fucking Human" is a reference to Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical text Human, All Too Human (Menschliches, Allzumenschliches, 1878).
Reception
Upon its release, The Codex Necro received positive reviews and numerous "album of the month" awards from various publications, and in 2009 and 2010 appeared in several notable "albums of the decade" lists, such as the Terrorizer Critics' "Albums of the Decade", Decibel Magazine's "100 Albums of the Decade", and "The Decade's Best Metal" on avclub.com.
Personnel
Production
Songs
1The Supreme Necrotic Audnance4:44
2When Humanity Is Cancer5:17
3Submission Is for the Weak5:15