''Bootlegged in Japan'' is a live album from

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band

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, released in June 1998 through

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Background

The album features a concert from the 5 August 1996 at the Liquid Rooms,

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. It was recorded as a bootleg and after the band received the recording, they found it was good enough to release it as an actual and official live album. In the inlay of the album the band wrote:

Release

''Bootlegged in Japan'' was part of a 3-CD set together with the album Diatribes and the EP

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Earache re-released in 2010.

Track listing

Personnel

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– lead vocals *

Jesse Pintado Jesus "Jesse" Ernesto Pintado Andrade (July 12, 1969 – August 27, 2006) was a Mexican-American guitarist best known as the lead guitarist for the British grindcore band Napalm Death. He started in the grindcore band Terrorizer where he record ...

– lead guitar *

Mitch Harris Mitch Harris (born October 31, 1969) is an American guitarist. He started his career in the grindcore band Righteous Pigs. He did a side project with Mick Harris – then the drummer of grindcore band Napalm Death – called Defecation. Shortly ...

– rhythm guitar, backing vocals *

Shane Embury Shane Embury (born 27 November 1967) is a British bassist and a member of the grindcore and death metal band Napalm Death since 1987. Career Napalm Death While not a founding member, Embury is the longest standing member of the band, havin ...

– bass, backing vocals * Danny Herrera – drums

References

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