"Invaders Must Die" is the eighteenth single released by the

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band the Prodigy. It was released from the band's website as a free digital download on 26 November 2008. It was the first single from the album ''

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''. The download was announced on 24 November, in a newsletter sent to fans, and first aired on Zane Lowe's

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show as his 'Hottest Record in the World' on 26 November. The song was co-produced by Does It Offend You, Yeah?'s James Rushent.

Liam Howlett Liam Paul Paris Howlett (born 21 August 1971) is an English record producer, musician, songwriter, co-founder and leader of the British electronic band The Prodigy, and an occasional DJ. Early years Howlett was born in Braintree, Essex, En ...

described this to the

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edition of Time Out as: "a very abrasive-sounding electronic track, kind of different to anything we've done before." Although not being a commercial single the track charted at 49 in the UK Singles Chart on 1 March 2009, whilst the

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remix reached 53 in the Australian Aria Singles Chart and 7 in the Aria Dance Chart. On 30 November 2009 the re-amped version by Liam was released as an EP with the B-side Mescaline, and Thunder remixes. James Rushent co-produced parts of the song on a laptop while on tour with his band, same with ''Omen''. He said he would work on the song early in the morning and e-mail it to Liam Howlett.

Music video

The music video features Noel Clarke walking around the British countryside and encountering or creating the Prodigy's "ant" logo. Among other places, he walks past the

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s at Denge and at the end he is standing on one of the

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. For a few seconds, the band can be seen in the video.

''Invaders'' EP

On 30 November 2009, "Invaders" was released as an EP on CD and limited edition green transparent 7" vinyl record. The EP is classed as a single to the Invaders Must Die special edition which was the original album released in February 2009 with 3 bonus tracks and a remix CD, a DVD of the music videos to Invaders Must Die and a 48-page booklet. The Invaders Must Die special edition was released 3 November 2009.

Track listing

CD single # "Invaders Must Die" (Liam H Re-amped Version) – 2:56 # "Mescaline" – 4:58 # "Thunder" (Arveene & Misk's Storm-Warning Remix) – 5:27 # "Invaders Must Die" (Proxy remix) – 4:03 Limited edition green transparent 7" vinyl # "Invaders Must Die" (Liam H Re-amped Version) – 2:56 # "Thunder" (Doorly Remix) – 4:21

Personnel

The Prodigy

– keyboards, producer, programming

Additional musicians

*James Rushent – co-producer

Charts

In popular culture

Invaders Must Die has been featured in trailers for '' Scott Pilgrim vs. The World'' and ''

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''. Additionally, a dance routine by ''

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'' semi-finalist Tobias Mead was set to this song, and an episode of ''

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'' uses Invaders Must Die as background music. It also features in the UK version of ''

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''. The song is also used in the reveal trailers for two first-person shooter games,

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and

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. Coincidentally, the trailers were both released on the same date. This song was also used in

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, remixed with the

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' song Debaser; this mix is available as

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for the game. In Bleach, Yukio's Fullbring is named after the song. It is also featured in the opening scene of 2011 Broadway play "Jerusalem" by Jez Butterworth. A remixed version is featured in the videogame ''

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''.

References

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