Coded Smears and More Uncommon Slurs

Coded Smears and More Uncommon Slurs is a compilation album by British grindcore band Napalm Death, released on 30 March 2018 through Century Media.[3] It contains previously unreleased material from various album recording sessions, b-sides, limited edition bonus tracks and split recordings. A music video for "Standardization", the compilation's opening track, was released on 8 May 2018.[4]

Coded Smears and More Uncommon Slurs
Compilation album by Napalm Death
Released	30 March 2018 (2018-03-30)
Recorded	2003–2016
Genre	Grindcore death metal
Length	92:23
Label	Century Media
Napalm Death chronology
Apex Predator – Easy Meat (2015) Coded Smears and More Uncommon Slurs (2018) Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism (2020)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Metal Hammer	8/10[1]
Blabbermouth.net	[2]

Track listing

Disc 1

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Origin	Length
1.	"Standardization"	Greenway	Embury	Utilitarian album sessions	2:46
2.	"Oh So Pseudo"	Greenway	Harris	Apex Predator – Easy Meat album sessions	2:36
3.	"It Failed to Explode"	Greenway	Embury	Utilitarian album sessions	3:38
4.	"Losers"	Greenway	Harris	The Code Is Red...Long Live the Code album sessions	4:21
5.	"Call That an Option?"	Greenway	Embury	Smear Campaign album sessions	3:03
6.	"Caste as Waste"	Greenway	Embury	Apex Predator – Easy Meat album sessions	3:06
7.	"We Hunt in Packs"	Greenway	Harris	Time Waits for No Slave album sessions	3:49
8.	"Oxygen of Duplicity"	Greenway	Harris	Melvins Sugar Daddy Live split series Vol. 9	3:30
9.	"Paracide" (Gepøpel cover)	Gepøpel	Gepøpel	Apex Predator – Easy Meat album sessions	1:39
10.	"Critical Gluttonous Mass"	Greenway	Harris	Apex Predator – Easy Meat album sessions	2:26
11.	"Aim Without an Aim"	Greenway	Harris	Utilitarian album sessions	3:04
12.	"An Extract (Strip it Clean)"	Greenway	Embury	The Mission Creep split EP with Heaven Shall Burn	3:12
13.	"Phonetics for the Stupefied"	Greenway	Harris	Forever Mountain / Phonetics for the Stupefied split EP with Voivod	3:29
14.	"Suppressed Hunger"	Greenway	Embury	Time Waits for No Slave album sessions	3:09
15.	"To Go Off and Things" (Cardiacs cover)	Mark Cawthra, Tim Smith	Cawthra, Smith	Melvins Sugar Daddy Live split series Vol. 9	2:29
Total length:					46:17

Disc 2

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Origin	Length
1.	"Clouds of Cancer / Victims of Ignorance" (G-Anx cover)	G-Anx	G-Anx	Apex Predator – Easy Meat album sessions	2:05
2.	"What Is Past Is Prologue"	Embury	Embury	Apex Predator – Easy Meat album sessions	2:56
3.	"Like Piss to a Sting"	Greenway	Embury	Napalm Death / Melt Banana split EP	1:31
4.	"Where the Barren Is Fertile"	Greenway	Embury	Napalm Death / Melt Banana split EP	2:22
5.	"Crash the Pose"	Gauze	Gauze	The Code Is Red...Long Live the Code album sessions	1:32
6.	"Earthwire"	Harris	Harris	April 2015 Nepal earthquake DZI foundation benefit track	2:54
7.	"Will by Mouth"	Greenway	Embury	Converge / Napalm Death split EP	1:25
8.	"Everything in Mono"	Greenway	Harris	Utilitarian album sessions	2:48
9.	"Omnipresent Knife in Your Back"	Greenway	Embury	Time Waits for No Slave album sessions	5:15
10.	"Lifeline" (Sacrilege cover)	Lynda Hughes	Damien Thompson	Respect Your Roots Worldwide compilation	3:18
11.	"Youth Offender"	Greenway	Embury	B-side of the Analysis Paralysis single off the Utilitarian album	2:07
12.	"No Impediment to Triumph (Bhopal)"	Greenway	Embury	Converge / Napalm Death split EP	3:02
13.	"Legacy Was Yesterday"	Embury, Greenway	Embury	Decibel flexi series No. 5	2:15
14.	"Outconditioned" (Despair cover)	Waldemar Sorychta	Sorychta	Covering 20 Years of Extremes compilation	2:25
15.	"Atheist Runt"	Greenway	Embury	Smear Campaign album sessions	6:07
16.	"Weltschmerz (Extended Apocalyptic Version)"		Harris	Smear Campaign album sessions	4:04
Total length:					46:06

Personnel

Napalm Death

• Barney Greenway – vocals
• Shane Embury – bass guitar
• Mitch Harris – guitar
• Danny Herrera – drums

Technical personnel

• Frode Sylthe – album art, layout

References

1. Brown, Dean (May 2018). "Napalm Death: Coded Smears and More Uncommon Slurs". Metal Hammer. United Kingdom: Future Publishing (308): 86. ISSN 0955-1190.
2. "Coded Smears And More Uncommon Slurs - NAPALM DEATH". BLABBERMOUTH.NET. 2018-05-29. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
3. "Napalm Death: New Single Off 'Coded Smears and More Uncommon Slurs' Compilation Launched; Massive Touring Update!". centurymedia.com. Dortmund: Century Media. 9 March 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
4. "NAPALM DEATH Releases 'Standardization' Video". Blabbermouth.net. Retrieved May 8, 2018.