The Codex Necro is the first full length album by the British black metal act Anaal Nathrakh, released in 2001. It was rereleased April 24 2006 with four additional bonus tracks taken from the John Peel BBC Radio One Session which was broadcast 16 December 2003 The person being suffocated on the album cover is Mick Kenney's younger brother. The album features sound samples from films such as Event Horizon, Excalibur, The Legend of Hell House, The Final Conflict and Platoon. The live performance of "The Oblivion Gene" was "the first ever performance of 'The Oblivion Gene', later to appear in its full re-recorded form on the subsequent album 'Domine Non Es Dignus'. No, that doesn't mean this session was the first recording of the song, it means it was the first performance EVER, the song was never even rehearsed before this recording session Upon its release, The Codex Necro received positive reviews and numerous "album of the month" awards from various publications, and in 2009 and 2010 appeared in several notable "albums of the decade" lists, such as the Terrorizer Critics' "Albums Of The Decade", Decibel Magazine's "100 Albums of the Decade", and "The Decade's Best Metal" on avclub.com User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.