The Codex Necro

The Codex Necro
Studio album by
Anaal Nathrakh
Released22 November 2001 (2001-11-22)
GenreBlack metal
Length44:45
LabelMordgrimm
ProducerAnaal Nathrakh
Anaal Nathrakh chronology
Total Fucking Necro
(1999; demo)		 The Codex Necro
(2001)		 Total Fucking Necro
(2002)

The Codex Necro is the first studio album by British extreme metal band Anaal Nathrakh. It was released on 22 November 2001.

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.

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, 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. The title "Human, All Too Fucking Human" is a reference to Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical text Human, All Too Human (Menschliches, Allzumenschliches, 1878).

Reception

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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's "100 Albums of the Decade",[citation needed] and "The Decade's Best Metal" on avclub.com. In 2013, Decibel ranked it at number 54 on its list of the Top 100 Black Metal Albums of All Time.

Track listing

No.TitleLength
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
Bonus live tracks on 2006 re-release
No.TitleLength
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
Bonus 1999 demo tracks on 2009 re-release
No.TitleLength
10."Necrogeddon"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

Production

References

  1. 1 2 Anaal Nathrakh Are '70 Percent Done' Recording New Album Archived 2009-07-27 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ Archived August 20, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ Interview with Anaal Nathrakh :: Maelstrom :: Issue No 10 Archived 2007-07-15 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ "The Codex Necro - Anaal Nathrakh | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic.
  5. ↑ Pierce, Leonard (1 February 2012). "The decade's best metal | Music". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
  6. ↑ Stewart-Panko, Kevin (October–November 2013). "Special Collector's Edition: Decibel Presents the Top 100 Black Metal Albums of All Time" [The Codex Necro]. Decibel. p. 22. ISSN 1557-2137.