The Codex Necro
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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.[1] It was again re-released in 2009, with four additional bonus tracks taken from the We Will Fucking Kill You demo.[2]
Background
The person being suffocated on the album cover is Mick Kenney's younger brother.[3] The album features sound samples from films such as Event Horizon, Excalibur, The Legend of Hell House, Omen III: The Final Conflict and PlatoonScript error: No such module "Unsubst".. 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.[1] 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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Track listing
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Personnel
- V.I.T.R.I.O.L. – vocals
- Irrumator – all instruments
Production
- Anaal Nathrakh – arrangement, production, recording, engineering, audio mixing
References
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