The Codex Necro
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| The Codex Necro | ||||
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| Released | 22 November 2001 | |||
| Genre | Black metal | |||
| Length | 44:45 | |||
| Label | Mordgrimm | |||
| Producer | Anaal Nathrakh | |||
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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]
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 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.[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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| Allmusic |   [4] |
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.[5]
