The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die

Invaders Must Die is The Prodigy’s 5th album (4 UK number 1’s and 3,000,000 + sales) and is 40 minutes of having your head battered by future nostalgia, serotonin levels twisted by feel-good horrorcore and your synapses snapped by whiplash attitude.  It's the sound of The Prodigy mixing up genres, contorting the past and rewiring the future, ram-raiding through the tranquility of music's status quo like a blot on the landscape of England's dreaming.
The first thing you notice about “Invaders Must Die” is how complete it sounds, a consistent collection of bangers all firing from the same cannon.  The next thing you notice about “Invaders Must Die” is just how melodic it is.  Not just melody in the vocal sense but in the heyday-of-hardcore keyboard-hookline sense.  Yes, if The Prodigy have learned anything from the hugely successful live shows it was that those old skool rave anthems still rock hard - and are every bit as iconic to their generation as punk was to the nation's forty-somethings.
So “Invaders Must Die” is awash with references to the free party generation, thundering along like the mother of all E-rushes, all hairs tingling, spine jumping and lips buzzing.  But not a retroactive arms-in-the-air, water-sharing nostalgia trip, but a set fuelled by punk's saliva-dripping rabid snarl.
“Invaders” also features Dave Grohl drumming on “Run With The Wolves”.

CD/DVD – HOSPCD001X

CD
1. Invaders Must Die
2. Omen
3. Thunder
4. Colours
5. Take Me To The Hospital
6. Warriors Dance
7. Run With The Wolves
8. Omen Reprise
9. World’s On Fire
10. Piranha
11. Stand Up
DVD
1. Invaders Must Die (video)
2. Omen (video)
3. World’s On Fire (live film)
4. Warriors Dance (live film)

2 x 12” Vinyl – HOSPLP001

Side A: Tracks 1 – 3
1. Invaders Must Die
2. Omen
3. Thunder

Side B: Tracks 4 – 6
4. Colours
5. Take Me To The Hospital
6. Warriors Dance

Side C: Tracks 7 – 9
7. Run With The Wolves
8. Omen Reprise
9. Worlds On Fire

Side D: Tracks 10 – 11
10. Piranha
11. Stand Up

Deluxe Box Set - HOSPBOX001

Stencil and sticker packs
7” # 1
1. Invaders Must Die
2. Omen
7” # 2
3. Thunder
4. Colours
7” # 3
5. Take Me To The Hospital
6. Warriors Dance
7” #4
7. Run With The Wolves
8. World’s On Fire
7” # 5
9. Piranha
10. Stand Up
CD/DVD
As above
Bonus CD
1. The Big Gundown
2. Black Smoke
3. Disko Punks
4. Fighter Beat

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