The Codex Necro is the first full-length album by British black metal band Anaal Nathrakh, released on 27 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.[2] It was again re-released in 2009, with four additional bonus tracks taken from the We Will Fucking Kill You demo.[3]
Background
The person being suffocated on the album cover is Mick Kenney's younger brother.[4] The album features sound samples from films such as Event Horizon, Excalibur, The Legend of Hell House, The Final Conflict and Platoon[citation needed]. 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.[2] The title "Human, All Too Fucking Human" is a reference to Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical text Human, All Too Human (Menschliches, Allzumenschliches, 1878).
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 Magazine's "100 Albums of the Decade",[citation needed] and "The Decade's Best Metal" on avclub.com.[6]
Track listing
No.
Title
Length
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.
Title
Length
10.
"Pandemonic Hyperblast"
3:18
11.
"How the Angels Fly In (We Can Never Be Forgiven)"
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