Scum

Not my type of metal

You gotta love the smell of Napalm Death in the morning. This really is a tale of two halves with the first side more punk adjacent and the second side more metal adjacent. I’m at a point where I can’t really distinguish the two different vocalists but definitely can pick out the increased velocity of the drumming and the drop in tuning giving side 2 a distinct sound - the sound of early grindcore heavily indebted to Deep Wound, the progenitors of the genre comprised of Lou Barlow and J Mascis. Where Napalm Debt differ is the lean into the metal with a mix of Blastbeats and noise punctuated by bass and cymbals. The distortion is interesting because it does not sound like it’s all pedal driven but rather some amp leverage into the sound. I get that this is a narrow genre and death growl vocals are not everyone’s idea of a good time. However, as a sonic experiment, it was definitely a huge step forward taking metal ideas - Think Sabbath and Motörhead and speeding them the fuck up - a lot. Speed was the idea, much like early Husker Du. It is also really limiting musically but pretty powerful if you are in the pit getting hammered by sound. 4/5

I listened to this back to back with tangerine dream. And it kind of made me ask. What is music? What is a song? I didnt dislike a lot What was going on in the background. But is growling over a minute of banging drums and thrash guitar a song? I dunno. Maybe. I liked Life and some of the stuff on that part of the album cause it sounded like gremlins or something.

1.0 - So I'm a fan of Thrash Metal, and there is some decent thrash stuff in here. In fact many of the songs (at least in the first half) start out with a pretty killer thrash groove. Then whatever the fuck Grindcore is comes in and absolutely ruins everything. Go fuck yourselves.

Interesting!!

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No.

Bien

Gave it a go, gave it another and couldn't ever find a way in. They play very fast and hard, that is true but not sure if playing fast is worth being a goal in itself if it tends to all sound the same in the end, perhaps I'm not picking up the subtle nuance but I would be hard pressed to identify 90% of the songs from one another. There are moments in between the cacophonies that have something better going one but I think those are simply breaks in the action. Its not my style, maybe one day I will learnt o appreciate what is going on technically but it's not today.

Silver lining: at least Muppets fans everywhere were finally rewarded with the long awaited duet between Sweetums and Animal on common enemy and moral crusade...

Does this get a 5 star because I wanted to drink battery acid and gouge my eyes out -- exactly as the musicians seemed to intend for their audience to do? I never believed that 28 songs in 33 minutes could still somehow feel like too long of an album.

Not for me

nah wtf was this

Absolute garbage.

I really don't hate it. the instrumentals are actually really cool, the the vocals do sound vaguely like a dog, bro is definitely not singing the lyrics on Spotify

wow. hated this.

I suppose I prefer this to an actual napalm death, but not by much. Track 12 made me honestly laugh out loud, though.

прикольно, даже жалко что так мало звучит забавно, как будто мужика заперли в кабинке и он там бесится не очень динамично, просто плотно и размыто зашло под рабочие часы чтобы я слушал это вне работы и получал удовольствие, наверное нет) даже не заметил как альбом закончился, все на одном дыхании

Wow, given that it was just 33 mins, this was a real fucking chore! The unstructured noisiness of it, plus the vocals were just an instant turn off. The sparse times when they locked into a bit of a riff it was ok but beyond that, there's very little that I enjoy about music in this

There were a few cool spots, I'm glad I listened... but I did not like this.

I grew up listening to death metal but I very much do not like it.

Theres a couple of good riffs scattered throughout but let's be honest, it's just noise. 1/10

Scum ist ein Album, das sich nicht erklärt – es passiert einfach. Die englische Grindcore-Band Napalm Death nahm beide Seiten in den Rich Bitch Studios in Birmingham auf, allerdings mit zwei völlig unterschiedlichen Besetzungen, zwischen denen rund ein Jahr lag; einzig Schlagzeuger Mick Harris spielte auf beiden Hälften. Das Label Earache Records veröffentlichte das Debüt am 1. Juli 1987 in einer Erstpressung von gerade einmal 2.000 Stück – und hatte trotzdem kaum mit kommerziellem Erfolg gerechnet. Was folgte, war eine der unwahrscheinlichsten Erfolgsgeschichten der Extremmusik. Die A-Seite ist tief im Anarcho-Punk und Hardcore verwurzelt: roh, politisch, kaum arrangiert – absichtlich. Die B-Seite dagegen klingt bereits nach etwas, das es so noch nicht gab: tiefgestimmte Gitarren, Guttural-Gesang, eine Wut, die sich nicht mehr in Punk-Codes fassen lässt. Beide Seiten zusammen ergeben kein konsistentes Album im klassischen Sinne, sondern ein Dokument zweier Häutungen einer Band, die sich selbst noch in Echtzeit erfand. Songs wie „You Suffer" (offiziell kürzester Song der Welt laut Guinness-Buch), „Siege of Power" und „Scum" wurden zu Referenzpunkten des gesamten Genres. Wer heute zum ersten Mal Scum hört, erlebt unweigerlich einen Moment der Desorientierung – das gehört dazu. Die rohe Produktion, die Inkonsistenz zwischen den beiden Seiten, der schiere Lärm: All das ist nicht Manko, sondern Methode. Kein anderes Album hat die Grenze zwischen Punk und Metal so radikal neu gezogen. Dass es nebenbei noch John Peel auf BBC Radio 1 überzeugte, dem Ding Sendezeit zu geben, ist eine der schöneren Fußnoten der Musikgeschichte. Scum bleibt das unwahrscheinlichste Gründungsdokument eines Genres – ungeschliffen, ungeplant und bis heute unrepeatable. Ich bin mir nicht sicher ob die Welt so etwas braucht!

You know it’s bad when you DNF a half-hour long album.

More like trash metal, amirite? Worst album on this list (so far). It is like they heard Metallica and thought, "that is pretty cool. But it seems they spend a lot of time on song writing. Maybe we should just not do that." Every song is the same. They all start the same. The average song length is like 45 seconds. It is all how fast and hard can I strum these power chords. Or how fast and hard can I hit the drums. Or whatever the singer is doing. This was made for people to mindlessly headbang and mosh to.

The vocals are so hilariously stupid and bad. It's like someone pretending to be an angry dog, but in like... a funny way. Ruff ruff ruff ruff ruff! Ruff ruff ruff ruff ruff! Sausages! They just make me laugh. I'm not sure that's what the band were going for. But some of the guitars and rock melodies are good, so at least there's that?

Это просто большой набор хорошего и громкого инструментала, больше про эту работу сказать сложно. Обложка клёвая, в остальном фоном-круто

If I could give this ZERO stars…

I'm not exaggerating when I say this could be the worst music I've heard in a long, long time. There will be some sick fuckers somewhere that love it, but aimless blast beats, limp guitar playing & mindless screaming into the mic will never be enjoyable to me. This isn't even interesting screamo, it just sounds like the guy is morphing into a cave troll. Genuinely a painful listen.

Nah, this stuff means a lot to some people but that ain't me. Endured the first half, the change was worse. 1 - doesn't belong on this list

Good!

Even with the open-nest of open minds, this is pretty rough stuff. It takes some of the bare riffology and stylings of Metallica and Motörhead and speeds them up to a point where rhythm is lost, and then adds indecipherable cookie monster vocals. This strips music of all of its usual dimensions of appeal and what you are left with is abrasive noise. I suppose there's a situation where that's fit for purpose, and it's most likely to be rageful 14-year old boys. Not for me.

Jaaaaaa No puede ser. Demasiado para mí. Voy a intentar escucharlo de nuevo por si me estoy perdiendo algo, pero esto de a momentos alcanza puntos donde no hay casi entendimiento. Es literal lo que dicen los que odian siempre toda música extrema de "es puro ruido". Acá a veces se siente que solo intentan eso. 4/10

ugh

Kaip metalui tai labai to ir tikėčiausi.

I wrote this logo on lots of notebooks throughout middle school. 2 spins for this project is about equal to, or even more than, I ever listened to them back then tho. In my defense it was a lot more difficult to listen to every single thing before the streaming era. My cd budget was woefully short of my listening appetite. Unlike some of their compatriots decorating my science folder, this band *was* exactly what I was looking for. I don't hear that now tho. It all sounds like a lot of banging & screaming. Don't get me wrong, I'm down for some occasional banging & screaming. My preferred banging & screaming has a bit more musicality tho. And variety. This album suffers from a bit of same-song. Why are we going for the drumming speed record on *every* track? "Say what you will about the tenets of [grindcore], at least it's an ethos." 2 & 1/2, but we're rounding down to 2

barulho, muito barulho! mas tem quem goste i guess letras muito significativas para a época, eu imagino, mas foi uma péssima experiência escutar isso, com todo respeito.

The music itself was often OK - but the singing literally made me laugh.

Didn't finish. Im sure this is for someone, but I dont think I would be their friend.

As a metalhead and punk fan, this was disappointing.

Listens: 1 The prize I get for listening to 365 days - 1 year's - worth of albums I must hear before I die is... An album on the bottom 20. Yay! I understand why this has scored so low. As far a thrash metal (or whatever the fuck grindcore means) is concerned, I could genuinely get behind the instrumentation, at least in small doses. The percussion, the bass, the guitar; all quite adequate in terms of the what is being presented and within the context of the metal genre. But the singing... You honestly can't even call it singing. It's more like growling or barking. I literally could not understand a single word said across the entire 33 minute album. I had to resort to pulling up the lyrics just to decipher anything. I try to listen to every album at least 2 times, but when I pulled this album up for a second go around as I was about to cook dinner, I could not bring myself to do it. I could not consciously submit my ears to a paltry 33 minutes of auditory assault. My time would be far better spent listening to almost anything else, which I did. Morcheeba's Escape The Chaos. This gets a 2. I dislike it overall, but I like it more than Justin Timberlake, Destiny's Child and most of the music that comprises the "Country" genre.

Not 1 second of this album should ever be listened to. 1 star or F-.

Not at all sorry

I don't love this, but I do like it and more than anything else, I give props for being one of those essential extreme metal albums.

Aiaiai 1-2 😬 ich glaub das kann Spaß machen aber is mir zu viel

Why does the lead singer sound like he's recording his lyrics from another room half the time? The other half is just noise.

I always said music was subjective until I heard this. Because if you seriously can tell me this sounds good, there’s multiple screws missing from your brain, SHITE

It’s a travesty there’s no 0/5 option. The single worst album I’ve ever heard, with the exception of the 1 second masterpiece ‘You Suffer’ which ironically made me suffer the least out of any song on the album

Olé, OLÉ!

If it’s going to be bad, at least it’s short.

Meh, didn't move me at all

Beautiful vocals, gorgeous lyrics and mightily impressive album considering the lead singer is a dog. You can just about make out the emotion in his barks, which adds an extra layer to each track. If I too was a dog, this would be an easy 5/5. Unfortunately I'm a human being, and this dreadful, steaming pile of crap gets a 1.

Who knew Animal from the Muppets actually did put out a record? The speed of the drumming is kinda of impressive. It’s actually not quite as bad as I had anticipated, but good lord this is not something I’d ever want to listen to again.

You suffer!!

Would rather be lobotomized than listen to this again.

1.0/10 Had to skip some songs.. too old for this noise and anger

This was one of those "Uh-oh, this is gonna suck...actually, there's some decent stuff here...ugh, I wish it were over" albums. I love hard rock, and for a brief moment I thought this was going to be the rare thrash album that I liked, but this ain't it. I really respect the drumming on this album, and there were fleeting moments where everything sounded good together, but the vocals were consistently awful to these ears. Despite being listed as 28 different tracks, it all sounded like the same noise after 15 minutes or so. It's an assault on the ears, as most thrash metal is. 1.8

Whelp, that's a lot of crash and double bass pedal. Paired with another variation on the same riff, quickly growed tired of this. If you listen to loads of thrash metal, maybe you can appreciate the finer details of what's going on here but its all very boring to me. It does seem to be put together with attention and care but I would never actually listen to this so has to be a 1.

A difficult listen - I couldn't tell what the bloke was singing about, and the double bass pedal got a solid workout. I tried, I thought, "Ah I've heard a lot about Napalm Death but never listened to them. Let's give it a go". Couldn't tell what was going on. Confused, confusing, and quite stressfully aggressive.

Don't think I've heard napalm death before, but heard of them. I would've thought it was thrash or death metal. Apparently it's grindcore... I'm not sure I've ever heard that term, definitely couldn't have told you what it was. Wikipedia tells me it's a fusion of hardcore punk and heavy metal, which after listening describes it pretty well! It definitely has trappings of hardcore punk, which I like, but then mixed with fairly heavy metal with a lot of growling and incomprehensible lyrics. Really heavy on the old double bass pedal, which as I've said before, I'm a sucker for. 28 tracks in 33 minutes is very hardcore punk. I enjoyed quite a bit of this, but it is very inaccessible, and probably the reason it has such a low score. There's far worse stuff then this on this list imo though. I think the first half was better than the letter, felt more like hardcore punk at the start. Got a bit too mad in the latter bits. I'm saying 3.5, my favorites were scum, caught in a dream and siege of power. I've listened since I wrote this and it's not worth a 3.5.... Going to 2.5

Not for me.

Maybe because I'm not a 19 year old punk in a city that Maggie Thatcher has just destroyed with neoliberalism. Maybe because I don't smoke two packs a day and am on so much amphetamines I can sit still. Maybe because I don't want my music as fast, loud, and hard as possible, this isn't for me. I understand its "seminal position in grindcore" but newsflash I don't like grindcore. Punk is fine, this is just the scene from Dewey Cox about inventing punk music; a sentiment I think I'll be expressing a lot in this project.

Oufff…des petits bouts musicaux intéressants au niveau guit/drum mais le chanteur c’est un gros no pour moi! J’ai écouté juste 2 chansons.

Je sais vraiment pas quoi dire. C'est trop, beaucoup trop d'un coup. J'ai détesté de A à Z. Peut-être que j'ai pas le bagage nécessaire pour apprécier. Mais j'ai vraiment pas apprécié. Pas une seconde je n'ai appréciée. Je veux que ce soit clair que je n'ai pas apprécié. NÉANMOINS, je suis fier d'être passé au travers, je crois réellement que ça a fait de moi quelqu'un de plus fort. Mention spéciale : Success? pour les bruits de rabid chihuahua. Et aussi, pour répondre à la question : Non. Non, ce n'est pas un succès, I hated it

this having mainly 1 star ratings…….metalheads truly are humanity’s most oppressed people 🥀 anyways je pourrais pas dire c’est quoi ma toune préférée parce y en a genre 490 pis elles durent en moyenne 45 secondes chaque but this shit went hard

I liked the a side better where there was some slow stuff and then fast stuff. The b side was really just a sonic bombardment. I kept the lyrics open, no way in hell that all words were pronounced. 1,5 stars. It's better than einsturzende neubauten and duck stab. But thats about it

😂 what a funny album, I couldn’t understand anything he was saying, the music was decent, but 😱 I’m not sure you could call this a “fun” album

Just no. I could have thrown a bag of spanners down the the stairs while a dog barked at me and it would have been more enjoyable.

Like the music - great drums in particular but also guitar work. Also lyrically very good just not a fann of the screamo delivery.

Everyone but the drummer had the right idea, leave!

Whenever I get an album for a genre that I’m not into or don’t quite understand, I do my best to find an element of the music that makes sense as to why it’s iconic and on this list - the rhythm section, the guitar work, the innovation, something. This one was tough. How do you even have a favorite song when it’s all just 30 seconds each of chaotic sonic noise? I guess I need to see this as avant-garde art. It certainly got a reaction from me.

pfffft, yeah not for me

Fucking hell. Terrible. This is an abomination.

Interesting...

Gotta listen to ND more, shits a ripper

Man, me 20 years ago was really into this. I hear the influence and appreciate it. 28 songs in 33 minutes? This was an incredible back-to-back with the previous day's album, nine songs at 1H 06.

i had very low expectations but honestly this was great. love the anti-capitalist lyrics. love a comrade.

I'll commend them for one thing, it was funny

Pretty sick grindcore album. Pioneering for a reason.

Yeah, NO

Now seems to be the time to tell you about my side quest, which is to find 1-star reviews in languages other than English that barely need to be translated. This album has generated at least two: Mierda inaudible Snel opgegeven Several others clearly apply: Beurk (courtesy of Soundgarden) Tortura auditiva (Sonic Youth) Søppel (Faith No More) Anyway, jag snel opgegeven too.

I almost didn't mind the first half. Its the kind of music I can imagine getting into if its super loud, the band is live and I've had a few. Second half was too heavy for me.

I dont like metal and I didn't like this. Hard to understand what was being sung. 28 songs in 33 mins also hard to work out when a nee song begun

No. Absolutely the longest.. 33 minutes and 15 seconds.. of my life.. Spins: 1, barely.. Playlist Additions - You Suffer (I did)

Urgh. I had an ex, well, The Ex, who played in local metal bands like this. I followed them to every shitty towny bar and cheered for every shitty towny band that played with them. The single best thing about getting older is that that part of my life is over. As of today, this album is the 5th-lowest rated on this site. Dear God, how bad are the other 4 going to be...

Look...I am a big metalhead. Do I appreciate what these guys contributed to the genre? Sure, thanks for the blast beats. But I will not be listening to this again. This list has a bunch of "influential" albums in metal, but then has hardly any of the music it actually influenced. Like do we have any metal that came out after 2000? I'm 800 albums in, and I don't think I've gotten one. I guess it's up to us in the user submissions to fill in the incredibly large gaps.

The musicianship is solid but the vocals sound like Cookie Monster on the toilet.

I totally understand why this record is on this list. I didn't necessarily dislike it but it was hard to listen to. Even though it was only 33 minutes, it still felt longer. I loved that they had a 5 second song on there haha. Probably won't listen to this ever again.

I'm certain that I will not revisit this. There are definitely some cool elements and its for sure ambitious. But damn, this is a hard listen. I kind of just want it to be over. The drums are really cool. The vocals are insane. I also like how it shifts mid way through. I guess that was a different line up? Kind of unique.

Pure garbage.

2/10

¿Porque ladran tanto? Sueño con el dia que me toque un album de System of a Dawn

The little “explicit” marking on all of the tracks is kinda funny. This album has zero intelligible lyrics. A death metal “Louie Louie”, if you will.

Super fast album. Sometimes interesting. Barely a 2,5.

Certainly wasn’t expecting to see a Grind recording here. Given how groundbreaking this was, it’s a good choice to include Scum (even if their follow-up album is even better, hands down). Also, Scum hits hard; full of earth-shattering drumming and riffs. An essential album, for sure. But what puzzles me more than to see a grind recording pop up, however, is that the editors bothered to include an example of (such) extreme music at all. I am pretty sure this will be the only inclusion of its genre here - so I ask myself, why include genres that are so extreme yet so diverse and sprawling that any list of this caliber will always be more than incomplete and far from representative? But let’s put that criticism aside for a second and let this absolute monster of ferocity and velocity wash over you (sonically).

1) World does not need any more love songs. 2) World does not need another acoustic indy pop art bullshit album on this list. There are also too many albums from a single artist already. 3) World does not need anymore Radiohead or Radiohead on this list or Radiohead in general. You people should open up yourself to something else instead of crying about "just noise" or "scary man was screaming and growling at me in these songs".

Fast and menacing, like Metallica if they weren't a bunch of pussies.

I feel like I was hit with a battering ram, but not completely in a bad way! There's something charming about a 33-minute LP with 28 tracks. This is one of the reasons I love this project: it leads me to sit with and contemplate an album that I would never listen to otherwise. As much as I enjoyed this little sampling, I probably won't give it a relisten. But that's only because it might've given me an ear infection.

That’s how it feels to chew 5 gum

Not my jam.

Something I like doing from time to time is go to the latest reviews on the site and read all the people that hate this sort of stuff rant about how it's "just noise" and shit like that. Always a laugh I like death metal, grindcore not as much, but I did enjoy this a lot though. Preferred Side A to B with songs like Siege of Power, Scum, and Born On Your Knees. The guitar tone is guttural yet groovy, and the drumming is phenomenal. Probably the only thing stopping me from giving it a 5 is my own personal tastes towards Grindcore.

Nope. Next.

Donald Trump.

Not my thing, like, at all.

Never my cup of tea…

Dnf. All sounded the same. Not my cup of tea

2/10 today I learned I don't like screaming drums, the drums were good but unfortunately not for me

ja... nei...

yesterday I had 13 minute long songs now I have minute long songs (not a complaint, purely observation) multi national corpo rations genocide of the starving nations song i went back to first after first full listen: scum

I love a deep slow bass as much as anyone. But a bit too heavy on the vocals for my vibe

My rating 2.0 The best I could say was I didn’t hate it. The low growling of the lyrics are nearly indiscernible but the wall of sound and noise from the instruments are jarring and profound. An all out assault to the ears.

Loud, noisy, fast, seldom melodic, fun for working out and not much else for me.

I knew about this album from the TV show "Silicone Valley." "You Suffer" is a good song to put in between songs in an album to remind you a new song has started

I generally like metal music, I realy do. I really tried forcing mysleft to enjoy whatever this so calle "music" is. It sound like when your give your 4 year old nephew an electric guitar because he wants to play with it, and after a while your father starts screaming at both of you because he has enough of this bs.

I love metal, but this is not my kind of metal. The instrumentation is good though.

Lol. God no. That's absolute shit.

Wow and I thought the songs on the last one were short... Lol one song was literally 5 seconds. Almost like a hybrid of punk and death metal. Not a fan of the vocals, like the instrumentals though.

Most folk mellow with age. As a younger man I liked a lot of hardwe rock and metal, Merallica and Slayer... but this sound was lost on me and just noise. Nowadays I really get into it. Been listening to Entombed and Obituary, forgot about this band. Great energy. Song too short though!

Hated every second of it. I don't get how this got into the book. Metal is really not my favorite genre but i know good metal when i hear it and this was just noise.

This is even harsher death metal than Slipknot - hated

So not my bag but three stars for effort. 28 songs in 33 mins.

I like Metal and got this album when it came out.

Artig, men ikkje for meg

Even as someone who likes metal, this was unbearable. I could maybe have tolerated it if the "singer" had anything approaching a discernible voice rather than just guttural nonsense.

Honestly, the album flew by and I am sad to give it such a low score because I think it is ultimately a fun album with some real rage and anger imbued into the musicianship and lyricism. Strangely enough, I consider this rather avant garde? I'm giving it a 1 because of the absolutely kick ass cover and for the vision. That and the 5 second song 'You Suffer' are amazing.

This is the example I would give to explain why I tend to dislike Metal. Just noise. 1

I went in with an open mind There’s some cool pockets on here but I can’t ever see myself coming back to this

Why so angry?

Quite liked this. Not the greatest metal album I've heard but it was punchy and fun. A decent time.

I listened to the first half of the album and eventually gave up. Throughout it, I was thinking, "The only enjoyable part is the silence in between the songs."

Terrible

Genuinely couldn’t finish the instrumentals were fine but the vocals are so annoying I couldn’t even I made it a couple songs in

Very not for me but I appreciate the format for non fans. Short songs, short album. Huge credit for that.

Well the day after Simon & Garfunkle, I get Napalm Death. That's what I love about this project. Anyway this is a bit shit - I listened so you don't have to. But I only half listened to it, so listened to parts again and they deserve some credit for 28 songs in 33 minutes. And their drummer can drum very fast. Still only enough credit to give them 1 star 🌟

The vocals, I just can't get into the vocals. Much respect, not for me.

Great name, but this just doesn’t sound good does it

scumscumscumscumscum

I can see why it's the lowest rated album on the list, not the biggest fan of grindcore personally but I don't agree that this album is just noise for its own sake. I suppose reading through the history of this album and its influence sheds a bit of light on its legacy and its inclusion in this list, but when it comes down to it - you still gotta listen to the damn thing. Idk, I think You Suffer is hilarious and sincerely great.

Now we are talking. This album is about annoyance. For me, the percussion is stupid. I like that this album exists

Actually kind of into this when they lock into a groove. Like the screechy evil guitars.

I've gotta say, I had relatively high hopes for this album based on the artwork and genre descriptions. Threw it on before doing battle with 2" thick ice with the expectations that some proper angry metal would form a good backdrop for the endeavor. What I didn't expect was to find myself laughing 2 minutes in at the vocals -- they are so *extreme* that they feel almost like a self-aware caricature of the genre. Growing up, my dad used to sort of make fun of metal using the same sort of ridiculous quick barely legible delivery: "kill your mother; kill your father." It makes this quite hard to take seriously. That said, outside of the sections where the direction is quite literally strum as fast as you can and hammer blast-beats until your wrists are about to break, there are a number of solid riffs and breakdowns in here. I just can't imagine ever listening to this seriously. Going with a super low 2 -- I think I might make Polluted Minds my new alarm.

Is it good? Not really, but I'd be lying if I said I hated this lol

This is certainly crusty and grindy like the the genre said it would be. Some of the most ridiculous singing I have ever heard in my life straight off the bat. This is how I used to play drums when I was a child and had no idea how to play drums and was just banging every single drum and cymbal as quickly as possible. I don't think I have ever laughed so hard listening to an album that wasn't a comedy album. The singing was just so incredibly absurd and it was just pure mayhem the entire time. Also the fact that there are 28 songs in 33 minutes just adds to the hilarity. Bravo, Napalm Death, you may have created one of the most insane albums of all time.

Holy hell 28 songs in 33 minutes is crazy. And this music sounds exactly as I expected it would based on the band/album name. Singer sounds like a more deranged Timmy from South Park. This is just not enjoyable to me in any way. Just banging on da drums and screaming. I'm really trying to find any reason to give this a 2 and I can't. My favorite "song" was You Suffer. Go ahead and give it another listen.

Quite abrasive stuff. Got to appreciate the influence they had but otherwise this is not a great listen - production is bleak and flat, vocals are very hard to follow, even with the lyrics at hand. It’s the embodiment of anger and for that it deserves an extra point!

Fast drums

Onhan tää nyt oikeesti aika koomista :D Vokaalit kuullostaa joltain alien kieleltä ja välillä Aku Ankalta roid rageissa. Huvittaa kun moni kappale on kysymys. Ja kappaleet on sopivan lyhyitä ja ytimekkäitä. Tässä on kyllä meininkiä ja on näissä kappaleissa hyviä riffejäkin. Ei nää oo pelkkää sahaamista. Kyllä ihan pelkästään tän viihdearvo on 4 tähteä :D Parhaat: Success?, Scum, You Suffer (:D), Stigmatized

What was intense. Fun at times, not so fun at others. 28 songs in 33 minutes, which most of them sound very similar.

não é pra mim

Only listen to this if you are having a horrible day but want someone else to sound unintelligibly angry for you

I was shocked and delighted when this came up yesterday. 95% of my 300+ albums so far have been "safe" and conventional. This is not that. Based on the majority of reviews I have read on here, this is not a crowd that likes to be uncomfortable or challenged, and that is too bad. Love it or hate it, this continues to be an influential metal album and certainly made its print on hardcore, grind, and death metal when it reared first reared it's ugly head.

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It’s as if a monkey and a rottweiler high on meth made a band.

Hilariously relentless, it really is borderline unlistenable nonsense, but I LOVE that it exists. I remember listening to John Peel's late night BBC Radio One show in the 80s as a young teenager and hearing occasional 20 second bursts (i.e. two or three whole songs) of Napalm Death, Extreme Noise Terror, etc, and just being utterly thrilled by it. That sense of, 'whoah, what just happened?', still remains after all these years, which is pretty great, but a whole album? I'm fine, thanks... Oh, go on then. By way of a footnote, fast forward a few years and check out Napalm Death's cover version of To Go Off And Things by Cardiacs on YouTube. Magnificent.

Wow. Napalm Death are a band I genuinely have fond memories of listening to, alongside Extreme Noise Terror, on the radio courtesy of John Peel. Listening to this whole album was the aural equivalent of wearing a hair shirt. I now feel cleansed and righteous. It may be some time until I listen again...

I’m not even sure what to say about this album, it was such a blur. Individual songs carry no value, with some of them being as short as 5 seconds. And yet, at 28 songs, it feels so so long. I don’t really get it, I can’t tell you the difference between the different songs, it was rough.

As a light listener of hardcore metal and it's many variants I find myself somewhat disappointed. I expected to hear the passion and the anger but it has somehow reversed itself into an exercise of making themselves the angriest thing possible and somehow forgetting what they're angry about because they're too focus on being angry.

Eh

Gonna pass

I don’t believe people actually like this.

28 canciones en 33 minutos. Infumable. Ni siendo más o menos fan del heavy y el rock duro me ha interesado lo más mínimo. Hasta siendo tan corto se hace largo. Supongo que tiene que estar aquí por ser el album pionero del grindcore.

This is the best record you’ve posted yet. The initial release from the grind core gods, Napalm Death. This record crushes! Every single track. Super fast blistering speed, especially Mick’s drums.

I’m normally a metal fan, but good grief this is an atrocious album. I felt like I was listening to my goth neighbor’s band play demos for their songs through our shared apartment wall while her toddler-mauling pit-bull with Down syndrome occasionally barked in the background. Where to begin? It’s poorly mixed, 90% of what you can hear are the drums (especially the cymbals, which they like to beat relentlessly). The lyrics are unintelligible for most songs - even with the lyrics next to me I couldn’t make some of them out. The lyrics were also misspelled a couple of times, which I think is indicative of the average IQ of someone who cares enough to listen to this slop. And yeah, they sound like a dog with Down syndrome. Even though this album is only 30 minutes long, the number of songs (and how bad they are) makes it feel like it’s 3 hours.

top 3 - Scum, Caught… In a Dream, Control. Enjoyed it more than I expected, would give it another listen.

Shit rips. It's like drinking from a fire hose, but once you get in the zone this is a suprisingly cohesive, enjoyable album.

Reading the lyrics as I went... 1. Awesome messages, very haiku 2. Absolutely 100% no way he's actually saying/ singing that...

it's a lot

A milestone in brutality and attitude. Also technically quite versatile.

This early example of extreme metal dubbed Grindcore has its roots in hardcore punk, which had been in a weird self-annhilating cycle of repeating the same forms, thematically and musically for 5 or more years. Over time, the shock factor of punk faded merely due to exposure. So, to counter the complacency of audiences burned out on weak clones of the same thing, some bands cranked up the attitude and the noise. In fact, there was a certain segment of the punk community who took it upon themselves to viscerally express the pain and anger that was driving them insane. Faster. Louder. Screaming about things that shouldn't even happen. Also, they JUST DON'T CARE. Add to this the nihilism of the late cold war and you get music like Scum from Napalm Death: entirely appropriate for the time, and launching new forms of music. Mostly unlistenable and torturous (and that is the point: we're being tortured), it's an artistic statement giving a voice to a subculture that demands attention. Not everyone listens to music for the same reason. Surprised to see this on the list, it's a good example of extreme music in its early form.

Death to my ears; I found no redeeming qualities in the music whatsoever.

I guess it was kind of appropriate for the moment but I could not tell you one thing about any song on this album, or any word that was said.

I wasn’t sure about this at first but got into it - that said I’m down with harder, heavier stuff but can see this may not be everyone’s piece of cake. Great musicially even if you can’t understand the lyrics

Holy crap. Ever expected to see this here. That’s awesome. Not saying this album is awesome. I remember this being too extreme for me in high school. I’ve heard of them but the music was so obscure and not even played on our local metal college station. Lot of small short burst songs found in hardcore. The song scum is good.

28 tracks, not a whole lot of songs ong.... Sick album to listen to while I hit my kids though!

A departure from my norms, but the man-child in me thinks it’s fun and amusing. What clearly began as a joke slowly morphed into a real thing. Kinda like Trump, minus all the fascism and rape.

🤘🤪🤘

Not for me

I’m sure there’s a subtlety woven into these songs that you can only pick up by listening intently, on headphones, as the maximum volume. Unfortunately, you’ve got to decide between that and having functioning eardrums for the rest of your life.

For meget speedmetal.

Frank Sinatra to this was crazy lol I love this app. This album was actually really good I loved it

Heard about Napalm Death a lot, especially from friends going to Wacken, but I somehow knew that Grindcore is not for me :D Funny story about the two dudes in Dresden in the review section though

Honestly had fun with this one

Not really my thing

Metal, with exceptional lyricism.

Very energetic, I like the instrumentals but I wish that the vocalist would clearer with their enunciation- couldn’t understand any of the words became repetitive after a while

possibly one of the worst things i’ve ever experienced

Blind album and artist. Walmart Metallica plus annoying grunting and smashing and screaming. I'd rather hear someone shove a mic up their ass and fart than this dude scream more.

Great album

wa was mich da

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Not my cup of tea.

Would give this negative five if I could

Wtf absolutely not

this is not for me, nor my metal loving friend JP

The music is okay but man the production sounds so bad

This band was started by a 13 and a 14 year old? And one of them runs a yoga retreat now? Seems about right.

7/10

Favorite songs: Divine Death Best thing about this record is the album cover. I actually like some of the music, but can't get past the vocals. It sounds like a dog "singing".

What the helly? Just no. Good thing it was relatively short. How am I supposed to even have stand-outs when all songs sound the same?

This is like sitting in the cockpit of a Sherman tank on the eve of your first battle. To get psyched up for the conflict, you have smoked a shit ton of meth for the first time. At the final hour, your leaders have signed a peace treaty, so you have been stood down from battle. Up to your eyeballs with rage-fuelled adrenaline and nothing to direct it towards, you masturbate until your banjo string snaps.

You know it had its moments and I'm glad I can say Ive now listened to a Napalm Death album. Think I likes side A over side B, though some interesting guitar work on side B. Vocals were rubbish on both. Not for everyone and in fact, probably not for many at all. But it did have some pace and you could imagine it produces a solid mosh pit.

hard rock. not good.

Sounds like the inside of a blender having a panic attack, which is exactly what it should sound like. Short, brutal, and way more focused than most albums that last ten times longer.

TERRIBLE - WHO RECOMMENED THIS TO THE 1,001 ALBUMS I MUST LISTEN TO BEFORE I DIE?

Jolly good fun - too many negative reviews

Absolute garbage. It’s unfathomable to me that this is an album deemed not to be missed. I refuse to believe I would have been missing out if I had died without ever hearing this abysmal noise. This is truly negative stars out of 5, truly upset that I am forced to give it 1.

0/5. Why is this even considered music.

Fede rytmer, virkelig godt instrumentalt, selvom vokalen er lidt udfordrende 🌟

white noise

This was terrible. I feel bad after listening to this.

I see metal, I rate 5 I hear grindcore I yell yay! Metal is not for everyone and this album is proof

Listened to this a while back. Pretty good album! Very based, and very extreme. Love how each song is a short sharp shock to the system to get their point across about how capitalism is killing us all. 9/10

Some top-notch metal deconstruction going on here. Well done, but not my cup of tea. 2/5

just no.

Not for me

GOES HARD

Why is everyone in the reviews in Dresden have I missed something

Very hard and noisy.

Terrible. Unlistenable. Pure torture. I had to check more than once to see if I was accidentally playing 2 very disparate songs at the same time. But no, it was intentional. This album sounded like a bunch of people got in a room, played whatever the hell they wanted without regard for the others and some guy got extremely wasted to the point of being incoherent and just screamed into a microphone.

1.5 I mean, I respect the genre but it’s extremely not for me. It’s all the same, screamed, 60 second song.

28 songs in 33 minutes lol honestly not as inaccessible as i was expecting. the screaming is whatever, but the music in a lot of places is just 4 on the floor driving rock. not going in the rotation or anything, but also wasn't straight up nightmare ear poison as some of the reviews had me ready for

ruido.

uf no, es metal. o algo así

All the songs are pretty fast and they aren't very distinct from each other, and this make the songs not worth for itself. The album fails to convey the feeling of anger it aims for. This might be because the vocals are dreadful—and it's not a problem with the genre itself; they are just insignificant. Since it's impossible to understand what he’s saying, it doesn't seem like the vocalist knows what he's doing. A more technical approach would definitely improve it. It could be much better.

I kind of enjoyed this, even if some of that enjoyment was amusement. I preferred the first side which is more varied and sometimes closer to hardcore punk; side two is more consistently grinding. Neither set of vocals does anything for me. I'm glad to have listened to it but not often likely to return

Welp, hard to say wtf this is. Sounds like a caveman stumbled into a metal band and started banging shit together- the singing is giving neanderthal, but the playing tbh kind of rips. It's very very noisy esp percussion but not at all messy. I don't hate this but it's also REALLY not my thing. It seems to execute grindcore or whatever the fuck this is rather well, has a sense of fun, I could see getting down to this when extremely smashed

I used to hang out in a shitty bar that had a metal club upstairs. We would be shooting darts or bullshiting and the band of the day would start and it was always loud overdriven guitars and some dude screaming lyrics that you didn't understand into the mic. We would always joke, oh they are doing covers, or oh man this is my favorite song! After a while we could pick up different songs but never the lyrics. A few times we would go up and listen to see if we could understand them that way. Never could. So this album brings me nostalgic feelings to that shitty bar. I do enjoy the music but unless I have a lyric sheet I have no clue what dude is saying most times. It's good metal though, fast, hard, unyielding to the listener. The kind of metal that makes my old ass want to see if I can still handle the pit. Knowing full well a few of the kids in there would pick me up laughing when I get knocked on my ass. If someone was new to metal I would suggest this as a decent death metal example or grind metal too. Yeah the metal genres are ridiculous, but so much fun to listen and try and pick out the differences.

Certainly a vibe and I’m sure it scratches an itch from some, but it’s not my thing. Luckily I don’t have that amount of rage in me.

Not really my thing

Great and truly a classic, I don't know if I care for all 28 songs because a lot of it sounds the same but I don't know it's for sure a classic and a pillar of grind/hardcore/whatever for a reason. Cool that it's on this list.

I don’t remember much but I think it was like punk

While I appreciated the album length and the average song duration, this was not fun to listen to and sort of blended together. High 1.

Not really a fan of this but at least it was unique

I’m a metal guy, and can even appreciate some speed metal. But listening to this I finally understand the look on my wife’s face and reaction to me putting on and enjoying “Master of Puppets” or “Ride the lightning “. My BP drops a few points and hers goes off the charts. Perspectives….

I don’t know which is funnier. Getting this album dealt to me on my birthday or the sheer fact that it was included in this list. Sounds like a band that tried 28 times to record the same song. I mean hell, if you read the lyrics it sounds like they might’ve had something important to say. But you can’t understand a word in this one dimensional sludge. Might as well’ve had Cookie Monster come in a record the vocals “Me like cookie! Me like cookie!” over and over again.

This was hilariously and shockingly bad, just nothing listenable about this. If you claim to be into this, you’re trying too hard

I like to rock as hard as the next guy but I didn’t really get this at all. Felt like a lot of incomplete songs and either something was always starting or ending with not much in between. And a 4 second is something. Some decent riffs that is having me round up. 1.5

Better than Joni Mitchell. 1.5/5

Bloody awful racket

there is a great album underneath the mix. i wanna hear more of the guitar and the bass

I guess this makes the list because it's the "first" grindcore album? There are many, many better grindcore albums (from Napalm Death, Assuck, Discordance Axis, Nasum, Brutal Truth and others). Even as a fan of the genre and extreme music in general, it's hard to ignore how difficult this is to listen to simply because of the poor production. Was this recorded in a garbage disposal? With so little extreme metal being represented on the list, it's a shame that this is the pick simply because it was first. It can be done so much better. 4 for influence. 2 for enjoyment. I guess that makes a 3.

Noise. Blast beats and growling, gimme-another-glass-of-nails vocals. I get it. This was embryonic, prototypical. Cool. But it's just fast noise with terrible singing. Sadly, I feel like most metal turned into this. I'll hear about a band. "Oh, they're different, very jazzy, with touches of prog." and then it sounds just like this crap. Another day, "Try this, it's got a baroque feel with some Latin underpinnings" then it's just more of this crap. Do people need to be bludgeoned just to feel something? For every review comparing the 2 sides of this, saying how one is edgier and more punk, while the other is more metal and deeper... What the hell are you on? It All Sounds The Same!! It All Sounds The Same!! It All Sounds The Same!! Perhaps upon repeated listings, the listener will developer a more trained ear and learn to discern the subtle textural nuances contained therein. I fear my eardrums would burst before I reached that point. Not willing to take that risk. Good bye, Napalm Death, may we never meet again.

This is one of the worst genres of music I've ever heard. I can hear their influence on modern metal, and its terrible. I had heard of Napalm Death but never listened to them before, but I've certainly heard their acolytes. Their songs consist of grunting and growling vocals, which say nothing, and bashing drums that provide no rhythm or differentiation from song to song. The worst part is there are instrumentals that sound good on many songs until they start bashing the drums and grunting endlessly. Every song ends up at the same place, and its useless. It conveys nothing. I don't see why anyone would listen to it beyond an ironic hatred of music itself.

There's something to be said about thrashing dozens of minute and an half or less songs into existence. Fucking metal as fuck. Noise and confusion.

People define "heavy" in different ways however if you want to define it as "playing heavy, fast and dissonance" as possible this is the album for you. It's the heaviest album when it came out. Couldn't fit into Hardcore/Punk or Death Metal instead creating a genre of it's own. 28 songs 33 minutes of visceral assault of the senses. It's the benchmark for Stenchcore(Grindcore/Crust) against which all will be judged within the genre. The production, the atmosphere, the timing and lore; everything just works. Your Suffer is the stand out track. Ridiculously short, primitive, early grindcore does it's thing. Best tracks: Multi Corporations, Human Garbage, You Suffer, Divine Death, M.A.D

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less than mid brah fr fr skibidy

In terms of tone, that's a hell of an opener. It's heavy as hell and almost oppressive sounding. Something like this should be on the list since it's a style of music that is distinct and pushes a boundary as much as anything that's more accessible but unique. A bit of a punishment to hear but it reminds me a bit of punk that I feels more about the feeling and emotion than anything else. I don't think this is as big a waste of time as a lot of the reviews say but it's not something I'd put back on much. Okay, the longer this went on the harder it is to not give it a 1. This is either. 2 for the positive elements of ways it pushes boundaries or a 1 for how I feel listening to it.

When this started I was like "oh no". But this hit me on the right day and when I got to the title track I started kind of enjoying it. They really shine on the songs that are less than 30 seconds. I don't know if they ment this to be cheeky, but I had a dumb grin on my face during the drive home with this on. They do a great job of not over staying their welcome. Better than U2.

Nice change of pace

Some of the music is good but the vocals, oh the vocals. I can't for the life of me tally then together with the written lyrics. I don't enjoy them, but I am fascinated by how they make them so incoherent.

Kinda fascinated about what this album is trying to do. Is it meant to be scary? Intense? Badass? Sounds like an angry dog barking over the sloppiest metal head garage band rehearsal of all time. Kinda made me laugh in a few places, is that what they were going for? It’s got to be 1 star. But I am glad I have listened to it.

Review written by my 3 year old son: 3yo: “This music makes me feel like spaghetti… like this…” *flails arms around* Me: “Oh, and do you like it?” 3yo: “No. It’s very rubbish”

As subtle as a jackhammer. 1.5/5

Favorite Track: Scum

I like the part when he said "aslkdjfblkzxjbfvlkjasbrdgkajdnbg"

Beaucoup trop intense pour moi.

My ears are bleeding. Please sirs, consider therapy.

You suffer. I suffer. We suffer. But why? Because this album is fucking awful! It took me longer to write this review than it took those guys to write all the songs. But I have to put up with it, because my dog ​​is a huge fan of this album. He barked the lyrics all afternoon today.

If you haven't seen Andrew W.K. air drumming Harmony Corruption you haven't really lived. Will I listen to again: 65%

A great year 14 year old me is creaming himself

Horrible.

In the spirit of this album: BISSIBUNNABOFFADOE BISSIBUNNABOO GOLLAVINDISONNADO ROPPSTOCKODO RUDUFU RIMIFI RAFADEW. RIFIDERAFAROOOOOOOOOO. It sounds like your deaf neighbours having rough sex.

I see it's on the lowest album list, but I was able to listen to the entire album without skipping songs. I guess I find this to be tolerable noise. 3/5

Even my 18yr old said it was just noise.

The perfect musical accompaniment to my drive into work this morning. Ok so I may have tailgated and brake checked every vehicle and ran 12 red lights whilst flipping the bird to every driver I saw. But it was a lovely journey.

Failed to connect with this. Kudos for a completely different sound, but I can see why it is rated so low.

It’s funny that +400 albums in It’s very tiring listening to endless 3* middle of the road ‘ok’ albums (that I’m probably now being much harsher and scoring lower as I’m bored of them, Van Morrison yesterday a particularly dreadful example). So something on the extremes is exactly the thing I’m craving, I actively want to listen to the lowest rated albums. Thing is, if you had ‘1001 Albums that pushed the boundaries’ you’d get similarly bored. Where’s the middle ground? Anyway, I’ve heard this before and it’s fun, largely terrible and gloriously short. The odd outbreak of a more traditional song structure like ‘siege of power’ and ‘war’ is nice to chuck in, and they are good. But given the original band all gave up pretty quick, you’re kind of left with the feeling this was just some kids who wondered what it was like to play as fast and loud as possible just for a laugh. Then accidentally created a genre. I think it deserves extra a star for that. Which kind of leads you back to 3* score! You can’t win.

I used to be a cleaner in this shitty club in Dresden. This fucking awful band were playing and I was backstage waiting for my shift to start. I went to take a dump and found this gammy cunt in a wheelchair shouting out loud in agony that he wished if only he could jerk his paralysed dick off while listening to two guys boff a tranny in the disabled toilets. After the gig I had to clean up his tears and then the jizz in the bathroom. I quit the next day to take a better job picking lobsters out of Jane Mansfield's ass.

No. Just fucking no.

Unintelligible mumbling

Who doesn’t love a bit of grindcore on a December morning? In all seriousness though, cool how you can hear the change in band dynamic half way through with the change of members.

I appreciate that the songs are short. These are all intense, but it’s not as hard to listen to as I feared.

Was not my thing, but would listen to this again

How did we even get here?

Sometimes things that influence great art blows. Here’s proof.

Seems like a solid album choice for driving fast, power lifting, or stealing copper from abandoned buildings.

Putrid.

Had the misfortune of seeing Napalm Death open for another band several years ago, was hands down one of the worst shows that I have ever witnessed

Hateful music for hateful people!

I do welcome some variety in this list and there are a few reasons I am tempted to give some stars for this record. 1, it sounds like it would be a blast to have attempted to play in Rock Band. 2, it is 28 tracks packed into 33 minutes. But it’s not my bag but it does induces lots of smiles and eye rolls. “Oh, the boys are at it again” I listened through but think it is fair enough to judge this one after 5 or so tracks. So yeah, i got some amusement out if it but I don’t get the opportunity to vote 1 stars very often so I am going to give this the honor.

This album is music’s equivalent of picking up someone else’s dog’s cold dog shit on a spring morning. With so many good metal albums out there, why choose a grindcore album that only offers headaches? I can only imagine the authors said “ha, make ‘em listen to this shit” before sending the copy in to the editor they hated.

I gave it a shot

bro there's no way

3.5

Diverticulitis incident incident genuine halo window into indicate

Poeh, ok, nou Dit was niet een album waar ik zin in had, na een vrij heftig feestweekend. Dit is een soort pure haatbak herrie. Niemand kan mij vertellen dat hier iets van lyrics in zitten of dat hier ook maar enige gedachte in zit. Sorry Grindcore, ik haak hier toch echt af. Als dit een lijst van 1001 albums is die je moet horen voor je doodgaat weet ik nu in elk geval de soundtrack van de hell. Ik moet zeggen dat dit dan wel motiveert om toch eens een kerk van binnen te gaan bezoeken. Sorry God, hoop dat ik mijn jaren goddeloosheid nog kan fixen, want dit de rest van de tijden te moeten aanhoren is toch net iets te veel van het goede. Ok, ik vermaak me een stuk meer met het album nu ik er achter kom dat er blijkbaar Lyrics bij staan op Spotify. Ik weet niet wie die heeft opgeschreven, of wie de lyrics heeft ingestuurd, maar ik kan het er echt met geen enkele mogelijkheid uit halen. Mijn nichtje van 4 maanden maakt betere volzinnen. FAVO: Het duurt net iets meer dan een half uur.

Vraiment moyen, on dirait qu'ils font juste : "ON FAIT DU METAAAALLLL". Les gars, c'est pas bon mdrrr

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J'avais mal au crâne, j'ai écouté l'album et après plus rien. Super remède je recommande ! Bien sur je rigole la migraine de salopard ptn, c'est quoi tout ce bruit de con... Par souci de cohérence et pour honorer le reuf qui s'est vomi dessus dans le rer quand j'écoutais cet album, c'est ciao

Most of the singing on this album is like that family guy bit where Peter can name all 50 states in the US in under a second. production is fine, playing is sometimes good, this could be a great thrash metal record… but nope. 4/10

jaaako loše. al nije gore od slipknota jer jako brzo prođe. doduše i dalje je smeće

Was going to put something 'smart' here like. I think they've put this under the wrong genre, music. But there were a couple of bits where the guitarist did show he could actually play his instrument, not just beat the living crap out of it. Still not enough to drag them out of the one zone, but a glimmer of hope.

This is getting 1 star more than I expected, because it made me smile. A lot. This is despite the horrendous noise that the vocalist makes. I know it’s a stretch to describe him as a vocalist. I actually find it funny that Apple Music has the lyrics on some of the songs, which makes it fun to sing a long to. I might play it again and sing along in the style of Michael Buble. It also has to be said that the first 1 minute 19 seconds of ‘Scum’ was great guitar work. Music managed to break out here and there in other occasions. On another positive note, they only needed 33 minutes to thrash out their repertoire of 28 anthems. Well played. Footnote: I’d rather listen to this than Kanye West. Or Adele.

Someone once said to me 'Napalm Death are literally one trick ponies'. Being a pedant, I replied ' no, they are one trick humans'. I remember the school metal heads thinking how cool and hard they must be to listen to this. I didn't give it the time of day. A few years later I a friend told me he went to see them at the start of their career in a pub. It was carnage, people jumping off the bar etc. That is cool. Today I finally listened to this album for the second time. The first was back in 1987, so I needed to refresh my memory. The songs are all very similar, done at breakneck speed, I have nothing against that, the vocals were fine as I rarely bother with the content of lyrics. He could do with some Halls Soothers maybe. The only problem is it is a very boring listen. The novelty wore off very quickly. I think I preferred the Electro Hippies 'Mega Armageddon Death' to 'You Suffer' at the time, but there was not a lot in it.

I like metal so this is not new to me but it is what I would call grimy- definitely not to everyone's taste and arguably not even to mine but I have to give flowers where they're due

2.6

Respect for the genre and its punk rock spirit but it's not for me. I am middle-aged and not nearly that angry anymore. I'm not sure I would have even liked this when I was 15, but I probably would have shared more of the black-and-white extreme PoVs in the songs.

The reviews for this one had me prepared for MUCH worse than this. Reading the reviews was really fun. Especially about the two dudes in Dresden. Good Lord. On a side note - I feel like some people see these albums as a creative writing challenge as much as a musical one. And that's cool. Anyways. This is one of the worst-rated albums on here? Amazing! The first few songs just kind of breeze by. Then I looked at the tracklisting - there are 28 songs! Most of them seem to be a minute or less. Digging into the history of the album, the A side is one set of musicians and the B side is another? What? Who does that? And they apparently sound different..... Let's see - Oh yes. Yeah. The blast beat "gimmick" they used (relatively) sparingly in the first half is the basis of every song in the second. I found the first half more engaging. So much of my rating system is based on whether or not the musicians have a vision for their music, and how well they express that vision. Napalm Death (in two different incarnations presented here) absolutely has a sound and an idea, and they do it well. It isn't something I want to listen to all the time - but - I get it. FOUR STARS

Definitely not my kind of music. Appreciated it for what it was but won't go back.