Reviews (page 5 of 9)
I appreciate their dedication to short, hard-hitting tracks and a unified aesthetic, but the grindcore vocals make this pretty much unlistenable to me.
I was really expecting the worst on this one given the really bad reviews. It’s bad but definitely not a 1 star - the punk influences are there and are appreciated. At least on side 1 - side 2 was much worse. I then read that it wasn’t really even the same band makeup that did the two sides so know I can see why side 2 was so much worse. It it would bar been just side 1 it might have even earned a 3rd star. But then there is the (so called) vocals that just were eff’in terrible. So they made up a genre for when you have a terrible singer and called in grindcore?!?!? But even given the horrid vocal sounds and the really bad side 2 - it still isn’t the worst album by a long shot on this list so gets 2 stars!
For me good metal needs to be tight. This is lazy slop
Nope, thanks anyway.
I'd rather hear this on a loop than have to listen to Oasis.
Loud, brutal, disgusting, relentless. The riffs on this thing go hard as fuck. I'm used to a lot of wild short songs thanks to all the screamo/emo stuff i love, so didn't phase me at all. Big fan
Long, yet, short album…28 songs but only 33mins
Not my cup of tea but I’ve heard a lot worse on here. Has the shortest recorded song in history.
Scum is a pretty tame metal record by today’s standards, but for the late 80’s this was actually pretty fucking heavy. Fun deep guttural vocals, blast beats, and frantic pacing are the only things this record has in common with traditional death metal. The guitars are almost more of a hardcore or punk sound than anything, at times they almost verge into a post-hardcore tone. This is a fun listen, it’s exactly as quick as it needs to be, but it’s not what I’m looking for when I’m in the mood to listen to death metal. 3.5*
This album is... kind of silly. I'm not exactly sure what the goal was here. On the occasion that a song is longer than, say, 90 seconds, they occasionally settle into some grooves that are actually pretty interesting -- "Scum" is the song that most caught my attention in this respect, mostly the first half of the song. Same goes for "CS". These two songs, like the album as a whole, become dramatically less enjoyable for me when the vocalist is involved. Overall this just feels extremely fast and abrasive for the sake of being extremely fast and abrasive, which... fine? if you're into that kind of thing? but no thanks.
Did I enjoy this? Not particularly. Do I understand why it’s on this list? Absolutely. As I’ve approached 500 albums listened to, I’ve really started to appreciate the unusual and different genres and albums more than I did at first. This is an underrepresented genre, and tbh I might enjoy more of this than a bunch of unnecessary new wave, post punk, and electronica. Also oddly enough it made me think there should probably be a Gwar album on this list. Anyway, I understand why this is ranked so low, but there’s much worse on the list. And this is never boring, and there’s a lot of boring on this list.
Не слушаю такой жанр. По крайней мере, металл и все его разновидности начались и закончились для меня в 2023
3.5/5
okay, beetje te voor mij
I wanna cut my ears off, eat them and head to the toilet.
No doubt, the guitarist and drummer are incredibly talented. But I wasn't able to decipher a word of English from the songs. It all sounded completely the same and halfway through the album I had to stop because I developed a headache. No disrespect to the band, this isn't for me.
Not my thing
Messy and frantic, which is what Grindcore is supposed to be, I guess. A couple of the "songs" are structured, but it's mostly short blasts of chunky anger. I enjoyed this more than I thought I would.
I’m upset this exits and that I experienced it.
I can’t tell if the whole thing is a joke or not, and the people who like this kinda music scare me, so I’m not gonna ask them.
I'm a fairly angry person, so I appreciate this album being on this list. Sometimes you just need music that's PHYSICAL. I didn't really enjoy it, and I don't want to listen to it again, but hell, I'll give it a 2 - if for no other reason than to bump it higher than Kid Rock in my ratings.
This was almost three stars because, even though it's not my thing, it's such a specific and intentional vision. But it's like REALLY not my thing.
I discovered I don’t like grindcore death metal
Jeg læste lidt med på teksterne som jeg lyttede. Moderat overrasket over at Napalm Death har RATM-level venstreorienterede tekster?? Anyways det er sgu et fedt album. Lyder meget forud for sin tid
Synes den beskidte lydkvalitet passede ret godt til den beskidte musik. Men ærlig talt, jeg synes det lyder lidt goofy og på trods af hvor indflydelsesrig den her plade er bliver det lidt ind-af-det-ene-øre-ud-af-det-andet. Jeg er selvfølgelig osse en poptøs. Kunne bedst lide B siden, den lød mest som en demosamling og det er den rigtige æstetik for den her slags musik.
This brings back memories of walking around on a festival and discovering a band that's playing on a stage next to where you're getting food I really liked the first half and the second one became good as well. Good music for exercising Favorite track: You Suffer
Absolute fucking shite! Delete delete delete
атмосферная музыка...
Not a huge fan of grindcore. Theres some good songs here. "Instinct of Survival", the title track and of course "You Suffer" is great but i feel like the gimmick here wears off quickly. 6/10 Faovurite: You Suffer Least Favourite: C.S.
lol. Look, I'll take this over Throbbing Gristle or Captain Beefheart Any. Day. Any. Time. Am I going to seek it out? Nah. If asked in a blind listening test to discern what was going on with the lyrics, I'd be torn between thinking it was a man imitating a dog, or an angry fellow suffering from a serious hernia. Depending on the song.
The kind of thing I could go to live and probably even enjoy, but does little for me otherwise
Not music, just noise
Absolute talentless shit from start to finish
I love the smell of Napalm Death in the morning.
again, what the hell did i just listen to
The style of music is definitely not for me, I appreciated that the songs were quick though. I also didn't hate it as much as I expected to after the first couple songs. I could not understand what was being said in any of the songs, but it sounded angry and frustrated. 2/10
Joey Luna spent a lot of time introducing me to the world of Grindcore. I have my moments with it, but they're definitely occasional. I do have to give them major points for 28 songs in 33 minutes. Album cover: (A) Metal indeed.
This is unpleasant. There's very little for me here. The only saving grace is that the songs were short, and so was the album. There were some sweet riffs when the singer occasionally stopped, and that is all that is keeping it from a 1/10. "Scum" and some other songs were OK because there was basically no singing. Even then, most of them were just people slamming their instrments as hard as possible. I don't think I feel the feelings required to enjoy this. 2/10
Not my cup of tea. Some of the guitar riffs and drumming are actually good but boy do I dislike the vocals.
This is definitely the worst album I’ve listened to so far. I think this is what a hell would sound like. You can’t convince me the vocalist says actual words. Just noise and screams. No.
I love metal. I love old-school punk. And I especially love the anti-establishment, middle-finger-to-the-system attitude that came with early punk. I can respect what Napalm Death was trying to do with Scum — pushing boundaries, pioneering grindcore, doing something nobody else was doing at the time. But man... this album just sounds like straight-up noise. The songs are so fast and chaotic they barely register before they're over, and when they do stick around for more than 30 seconds, it’s just a wall of blast beats, distortion, and guttural shouting that never lets up. I tried to give it a fair shot, but even my eight-year-old asked, “Why are we listening to dogs barking?” And honestly, I didn’t have a good answer.
Silly boys.
About 7 songs, 2 I actually enjoy, and 20 sonic anger attacks.
Shakespeare once said Brevity is the soul of wit. If that’s true, Napalm Death is the wittiest band of all time. If it takes you more than 58 seconds to get your point across you need to go back to songwriting school.
Album 779 of 1089 Napalm Death - Scum (1987) Rating : 1.5 / 5 This was terrible. Extra 1/2 point for fitting 28 tracks into 33 minutes.
Just when I think I’m enjoying a riff, I notice it’s a note for note Metallica ripoff played slightly faster. Did not like
Not good
Painfully bad and not musical at all. Hard pass.
Haha unserious
Well, it was loud! Grooves were good, lyrics not so much
19 fucking eighty fucking seven. They were the first to do it. 28 songs in 33 minutes. As difficult as the vocals are to listen to the album was not. Actually really loved some of the riffs. Great seminal album.
Well, that was intense. Overall: 2.5/5
What. I can't believe this is on the list.
You'll cowards don't even smoke napalm. What's up with that?
Just noise
my electric toothbrush makes better music
Going into the album: the album art is scary, will I like this? First ten seconds: Hmm, interesting drum setup. Next ten seconds: What in Satan's name is this? He's chanting a curse isn't he? I'm legit scared, gonna hit that pause button and play some electropop instead. Ten hours later, I finally go through the album. I respect it and their deconstruction of what makes music music. I like the low, rumbling guitar work in some tracks, like "Scum", "Siege of Power", and "M.A.D", and especially the last few seconds of the entire album in "Dragnet". They're weirdly calming, like a massaging of the deep recesses of the brain. I'm still a little scared though.
When I saw this was 28 songs I thought OH GOD NO. And then I saw it was only 30ish minutes and thought "sweet". Then towards the end of the first song I thought, wait are they saying words or just grumbling syllables and was genuinely shocked to learn real English words were being uttered. Apparently this album falls under the subgenre "Stenchcore" which is a first for me. I actually liked Siege of Power, they almost tapped into a bit of glitch-pop imo and could've been produced by MC Ride. The vocals are consistently obnoxious to me however, at least I can understand MC Ride. And on Control, why do they rhyme "head" with "death" when they could just have used "you're dead" instead of "your death"? I guess that's the fascist in me talking... I also loved "You Suffer", it totally caught me off guard. Here's a blurb I found about it: "The song has earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the shortest recorded song ever. It is precisely 1.316 seconds long. The song’s writer, Justin Broadrick, said: 'You Suffer was largely a comedy thing, one-second song. Utterly retarded. It’s ridiculous, but it was hilarious. We played that song in front of 30 local kids, like, every weekend. We played that song 30 times. It was a laugh.' " I actually laughed at the mouth noises during Success lol Also, kudos to anyone who picked up that both the lead guitarist and lead vocalist changed half way through the album. Apparently the core contributors of the band changed during the recording of the album and they just split the album into two, the old at the front and the new at the back. Even though the vocals are grating at times, I can get down to some of these thrashes, again because they're glitch adjacent and cracked me up at times. 3.5/5 rounded down.
Shoutout to Alex for making me give this a second listen. I liked it quite a bit more. I don't know what value the lyrics are supposed to have when they're completely indecipherable from the vocals we're given. But also relistening gave me more appreciation for the instrumentation and drums here. Pretty good. Pre-second listen, 1.5 rounding up. But on a second listen, I've revised to 3.5 rounding down.
Look, I know that I am not the target audience for this. But it really doesn't mean that I can't appreciate and recognize the technical artistry that it takes to make music metal.
this was like that tierra whack album except it made me so miserable
Sounds like trey Parker parody
This is not for me. The band is fine, the singing is not art.
Made me smile this did. Not as bad as feel they want to be, but just well a bit shit. Shit album name literally, shit cover what are you 14 and just well shit. Sabbath distortion Riff on riff, hammer the drums and childish Cookie Monster err vocals. Didn’t find uncomfortable just piss poor, someone is actually chainsawing outside as I listen, and that has better sound, no really it does, better tone more fluidity. If you want to listen to this good for you. Kerrang! 50th best British album of all time, oh you little scamps. 1 Star cause made me smile 0 Stars for the err “music”
Nicht mein Ding aber its a mood
Dafür, dass ich es nicht höre, fand ich es gar nicht so schlecht
Not for me but cool
Chaotic, intense, loud, repetitive. Ultimately, boring. I enjoyed listening to this once. There will be no repeat listenings.
Angry as hell and sexy guitar tones. Like it or not it's one of its genres finest. Last couple of songs is a bit much "let's just play fast"
bruh
I enjoyed it more than I thought I would
28 songs in 33 minutes? What is this, music made for the 2020's Spotify Algo? Napalm Death is truly ahead of their time.
Perfect compliment to a long drive out to the suburbs. I did feel like there was a Daffy Duck voice coming and going out of the back half which was really cracking me up. The music was varied and I liked some songs much more than others.
yeah mostly yeah, but it's an acquired taste
for being one of the worst rated albums on this project this was not NEARLY as bad as expected like i don't consider myself remotely into metal but maybe all the punk ass trans metal house shows i've been going to to see friends have worn off on me i'd take this over more neil young (derogatory) any day of the fcking week. 2.5
Not my favorite vocal styling and the drums got a bit repetitive. I'm going to be contentious and round up my 2.5
Scum is definitely one of the most odd albums on this list and that gives it a unique charm that not a lot of other albums have. This album has a very interesting structure with it being 28 songs but a lot of them are extremely short with one being only 5 seconds long. The general songs are also out of the ordinary with it having your typical thrash/death metal beats but with some incredibly fast drumming and vocals which almost make it sound like the vocalist is barking like a dog. This album can get a little samey and easy to lose track of due to being so short but i still love this album's charm and the more conventional thrash/death metal parts do sound really great so i'm giving this album a 3.5. Best Song: Scum Worst Song: Multinational Corporations
I didn't mind the death metal / punk vibes of Napalm Death. My only beef with the editors of the list is why include Napalm Death, when they stole their entire schtick from Stormtroopers of Death, who released SPEAK ENGLISH OR DIE two years earlier. They even got the 4 second song gag from SoD's 4 second punk cover of Joan Baez's "Diamonds and Rust". Almost everything on that album was aped on this one. The SoD is more original and entertaining.
I’ve never been able to get on with Napalm Death. The second half of the album was worse than the first.
I bet that there were some smart lyrics about the human condition and the world today mixed in with the noise. I just wish I could have understood the message. With song titles like “Multinational Corporations”, I was hoping for a more of a call to action than a person ranting and screaming. How can I help if I can’t understand what the problem is?
guitar riff starts drums kick in with a fast repetitively alternating beat "ORURORURORURORURAHHHHHH" the album moves on to the next song, repeating the cycle. the process occurs 28 times in total wikipedia says the album features political lyrics about capitalism and the environment and stuff, to which i like to imagine it took a group of researchers multiple years to analyze these recordings and decipher the words on this album (if i am to believe wikipedia's information that there are enough words on this album to warrant deciphering) i had fun
*pulls Napalm Death aside* “Hey guys, what the hell was that?”
Nope.
Jesus Christ what did I just listen to?
I'm a bit torn on this. The actual musical aspect, the guitarsass\drums etc is actually quite listenable for me. It does get a bit repetitive, but which genre of music doesn't. The vocals just grind though. I get that this a stylistic choice for grindcore, but it's just painful to listen to. I was intrigued by the wiki page showing that the two sides of the album were recorded in different years by almost entirely different lineups. I could not discern any real difference, which may say more about me than about the band/album. I made it to track 6 on side 1, and track 3 on side 2. It only gets a 1 star from me.
Pretty generic metal album. It’s impressive, but not anything special
Nope.
I hate the singing. None of the songs last long enough for me to remember anything about them (which in hindsight is a good thing, considering how dreadful this was)
i just can’t get into grindcore
Casi ruido blanco, mucha batería, acelerador. Álbum muy corto en sus canciones
Shreds. I like the barking ruff ruffery of the vocals here.
Takes no talent, band should be slapped, hard
Wow yes, I felt like I was back at The Brewery! They definitely inspired a lot of bands I listened to in high school/college. The vocals are great, I liked them better than many grindcore bands - maybe because they are quieter and blended with the rest. I would appreciate more variety in vocals though (they did bring some into the second half after "Life?"). Favorites: - Instinct of Survival has a lot of nice little two-steps - Scum - Siege of Death, you could almost understand the lyrics 😂 and I liked the guitar solo at the end - Born on Your Knees - Human Garbage, nice a lil breakdown and long two-step 😍 - You Suffer was HILARIOUS - M.A.D. offered a nice break from the blast beats I'm torn between a 4-5 because I wouldn't listen to this genre often but for what it is, their skills are tight and they are very influential.
Liked the lyrics
great album. sick. whenever I go to grindcore shows I'm always mesmerized by the drums, this (genre-defining) album is no exception.
I liked the beginning of scum the single. Human garbage was good too, but I’m not a fan of the dog barking over blast beats with endless cymbals sound (I suffer). Cool album art.
I went into this one with some preconceived notions, and I'll be honest: It's not for me. To their credit I actually finished this one and I can't say that about every album we've had here There's more to like here than I would have guessed. The thick guitar riffs + some of the more restrained drumming is a cool sound. I like blast beats in moderation but sustained blast beats feel like a maximal energy way to rob a song of any energy. I wish I could get into the head of someone who likes these vocals to understand why, but I don't. Favs: Instinct of survival Siege of power C.S.
complete shit
I didn't listen after the first couple songs cuz why would I voluntarily let my ears be raped by this shit?
Nice to see that by 1987 metal is at least beginning to evolve a bit, and opening itself up to slightly new forms and directions. On the other hand, most of this is still guttural, incomprehensible pointlessness. 1.5☆
this sounds like something you would play as a joke when you pull up to a stop light
In the same way that high end restaurants will offer a palate cleanser (like a sorbet) between courses to help reset your taste buds, this is the kind of album that resets your ears away from the mainstream music that overpowers this list. Enough with the Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, Pavement, Oasis et al - here's some primitive rage. As Hobbes put it - "Nasty, brutish and short." I listened to it, enjoyed it, and will now enjoy an hour of silence.
I quite liked this Grindcore album, although I would be hard pushed to say what the diffrence between Grindcore and Thash Metal is. I wonder if the lead singer has seen a doctor about his sore throat?
Um. Not sure how this got on the list, unless it was just first of it's kind. Very hard to distinguish difference between each song. I like some death metal with undistinguishable vocals, but those tend to have some sort of rhythm to the rest of the music. This was just non stop thrash. But five minutes felt the same as the entire 30+ minutes.
If you asked someone who didn’t like heavy metal or punk rock what they thought the genre was like, this album is probably what they’d come up with. Nothing pleasant to say about the listening experience aside from it being shorter than most albums.
imagine me just waking up, putting on my headphones and hearing this music (if you can even call it that) blasting into my ears: not the best uh? -♾️/5
today i suffer. but why???!!! 2/5
I’ve never listened to a napalm death record ever. Very aware of the band though. 28 songs in 33 minutes. This definitely the early days of death metal and blast beats.
Und wo isch da d Melodie im Gsang? Guete drive, spannend, wänn nur de Gsang nüd wär... Aso de Lemy singt schöner. Und am 24.2.25 sinds als Headliner im Z7 gsie
hahahah was isch de erst song? hahahah. aaaarsch gmixt. aber ich checks gad? bi huere überrascht. die cymbals töned scheeeeeisse. hahaba scum de song fangt kohärent ah und denn afoch blast beats hahaha. weiss nöd obis dure schaff am stuck. haha es isch alles recht extrem. die dramatische pünkt bi caught... in a dream. was sind das für duuudes? aha es sind zwei bands haha. aso zweis sessions nur de drummer isch bi beidne gsi. alli so churz die songs. finds gad recht stressig. ich wird fix es zwei geh aber da isch für mich high praise für musig woni so nie wird lose. ahaaaaa da isch de chürzist song ever ei sekunde HAHAHAH. son funny stunt.
HAHAHAH JAAAA UFBDAS HANI MI GFREUT ich finds immerno crazy, dass öpper 1987 so heavy musig gmacht het bi scum findi erchenntmer halt echt en gwüsse groove etc. wo aber denn eifach durs chaos und d blast beats zerstört wird polluted minds isch dumm gange damn siege of power isch actually es lied gsi sochli hett echt denkt dass es mier wird weniger gfalle, bin mitere 2er-erwartige da innegange aber ich hans album au nonie am stuck glost, bis jz fühlis easy hahahah han nanie chönne vill mit grindcore ahfange aber da woni no meh d wurzle chan usseghöre, cheggis glaub besser? ach ich lieb you suffer, ich weiss no wo ich das imene youtube video zu obskure metal-/hardcorelieder s erst mal ghört han und s eifach so funny gfunde han, was für dummi musig me chan mache OMG bidem gitarre solo vo parasites sind gad 50 regeböge glichzitig dur min chopf gschosse finds halt schad lahtmer d musig nie schnuufe aber genau das isch ja au u.a. de sinn vom ganze glaub ich bin aber allgemein überrascht, wie guet s mier gfalle het, glaub es git es 4i (ellei, wills vlt ohni napalm death keis cattle decapitation git)
so so bad it's almost funny. The screaming is horrendous, some muffled screams instead of those in metal that actually transmit energy.
Hail Satan!
Mon carnet de bord du projet "1001 Albums" m'amène aujourd'hui sur un terrain miné, un véritable champ de bataille sonore. On quitte les mélodies évidentes et les structures confortables pour plonger tête la première dans le chaos pur, le bruit érigé en art, la violence musicale comme unique moyen d'expression. Mesdames et messieurs, bienvenue en enfer : nous allons parler de "Scum" de Napalm Death. Ca y est, je la vois venir la question à 10.000 euros et d'ailleurs je l'entends arriver avec ses gros sabots... "Mais qu'est-ce qu'il fout avec ce truc de bourrins ?". La réponse est simple : ce disque est dans le livre et si ce disque est dans le livre, c'est qu'il a son importance et une importance capitale, même. Et puis, entre nous, un peu de brutalité pure n'a jamais fait de mal à personne, surtout quand on a grandi dans les années 70 et 80, où la musique se devait aussi d'être un bon coup de pied au cul. J'avais 17 ans, j'écoutais The Cure, the The, Echo & The Bunnymen, peut-être un peu d'AC/DC pour faire le dur. Et puis, un jour, par les méandres des échanges de cassettes et des fanzines photocopiés, "Scum" est arrivé. Je ne vais pas vous mentir, la première écoute fut un choc, pas un choc agréable, non. Un parpaing dans la gueule, une agression, trente-trois minutes, vingt-huit morceaux. Une blague ? Non, une révolution. Ce disque, c'est l'acte de naissance officiel du grindcore. Un nom barbare pour une musique qui l'est tout autant : des morceaux ultra-courts, des "blast beats" à la batterie (Mick Harris, ce putain de métronome fou), des guitares accordées si bas qu'on dirait une tronçonneuse asthmatique et un chant qui oscille entre l'aboiement d'un chien enragé et le gargouillis d'un évier qui se vide. On est loin, très loin de "Boys Don't Cry". Le plus fascinant avec "Scum", et c'est là que l'analyse devient intéressante au-delà du simple "ça fait du bruit", c'est sa nature schizophrène. Ce n'est pas un album, ce sont deux mini-albums, enregistrés par deux formations quasi-différentes, collés ensemble par la force des choses. D'un côté, la face A, enregistrée en 86. C'est la frange punk, crust, hardcore de Napalm Death. On y retrouve Nicholas Bullen, Mick Harris et un certain Justin Broadrick à la guitare. Oui, LE Justin Broadrick qui allait, peu de temps après, nous terroriser avec Godflesh. Cette face est crade, politique, anarchiste dans l'âme. C'est un torrent de boue sonore qui charrie des slogans anti-capitalistes et anti-système. C'est brut, c'est primal, ça sent la bière tiède et le squat. De l'autre, la face B. Broadrick et Bullen sont partis. Lee Dorrian (futur Cathedral) est au chant, Bill Steer (futur Carcass) à la guitare. Seul le batteur Mick Harris reste, comme un pilier au milieu du chaos. Et là, le son change car on bascule dans autre chose. Le punk est toujours là, mais le metal, le death metal naissant, pointe le bout de son nez hideux. C'est plus lourd, plus structuré (un bien grand mot pour ce bordel), et ça pose les bases de tout ce qui suivra. "Scum" est donc un document historique. C'est la photo d'un instant T, celui où le punk hardcore, à force de vouloir être plus rapide et plus méchant, a muté en un monstre incontrôlable. C'est un disque charnière, un pont rouillé et dangereux entre deux mondes. Et les morceaux, alors ? En détailler chaque piste serait un non-sens et contraire à ma ligne éditoriale. On retiendra évidemment le légendaire "You Suffer". 1,316 secondes. Record du monde de la chanson la plus courte. Le temps d'éternuer et c'est fini. C'est devenu une blague, un gimmick, mais c'est surtout le symbole ultime de la démarche de Napalm Death : aller à l'essentiel, condenser la rage en un flash, un spasme. Le reste est à l'avenant : "Scum", "Siege of Power", "Deceiver"... des titres comme des coups de poing, des explosions de haine qui durent rarement plus de deux minutes. 4 sur 5, voilà c'est tombé. Je suis peut être en dehors de mes docs mais putain il mérite un 4 sur 5. Pourquoi pas 5 ? Parce que "Scum" n'est pas un album que l'on écoute pour le plaisir. C'est une expérience, une épreuve, un rite de passage. On ne met pas "Scum" en fond sonore pour préparer le dîner. On l'écoute fort, seul, et on en ressort changé. Lessivé, mais changé. Et puis, il y a la suite. Pour moi, qui ai passé des années à user les disques de Godflesh, de Scorn ou de Painkiller, "Scum" est une pièce maîtresse. C'est le Big Bang d'où tout est parti. Entendre la guitare abrasive de Broadrick sur la face A, c'est déjà entendre les prémices du son industriel et déshumanisé de Godflesh. Suivre le jeu de batterie démentiel de Mick Harris, c'est comprendre d'où viendront les rythmiques froides et dub de Scorn, ou la furie free-jazz de Painkiller avec ce malade de John Zorn (un autre de mes héros). Cet album n'est donc pas seulement une borne dans l'histoire du metal extrême. C'est un carrefour, une pépinière de talents qui allaient chacun, à leur manière, dynamiter la musique des années 90. Et rien que pour ça, sa place dans les "1001 albums" est tout sauf usurpée. C'est une purge, une catharsis, un putain de grand nettoyage nécessaire. Pas pour toutes les oreilles, c'est certain. Mais pour celles qui osent, la récompense est à la hauteur du choc.
Best thing about this album are the reviews. I found myself tapping my feet and rather enjoying the riffs, but then it just devolved into noise.
This album is awesome. I'd never listened to Napalm Death before, but had heard of them. Listening to this on my way into the office this morning, I came in ready to rip the fucking head off some spreadsheets. Every track thrashes with intensity, melody and rhythm. The drummer is an absolutely maniac and kicks ass. The vocals mesh perfectly with the percussion and guitars and all these elements really complement each other. I can't believe this came out in the 80s; it sounds harder than most metal that's out today. This album represents part of why I enjoy this project so much.
Heavy incoherent punk that wasn’t really for me.
What drum speed!
Whose idea was it to bring forward Napal Death to general audience? This is the type of band that should operate only amongst its fans, which is in deepest dungeons, in solitary confinements and in every edgy 13 year old bedrooms. Last time I've heard this album in my laryngologists office, when he wanted to show me the potential effects of not taking care of my throat. Napalm Death is not a band for everyone. To be very precise, it's a band for no one. Simple experiment of how far we can go before it stops being music at all. They reached this threshold within first notes of their second song, and then explored terra incognita for another, extremely long, 30 minutes. Clearly, humanity has failed in its progress, if we ended up here. Just a quick note, if this list will show Cannibal Corpse as well, I just simply quit. Otherwise, great album, no notes, great job!
It has an odd chaotic charm.
Really conflicted over this album. The first half is honestly pretty good headbanging metal, with actual developed songs among the grindcore "songs." Second half is complete incoherent garbage. It's a shame that the recording for this album was split up, because this would be a really great album if the first half was carried all the way through. Top tracks: Instinct of Survival, Scum, Siege of Power
Good lord. More “music” to be tortured by.
It's really crazy that not only someone paid a studio to record this, but also that it was released and available for purchase. There are approximately 45 songs on this album, but the whole album is 30 minutes long. And each song is also somehow exactly the same. Any of these songs sound like they could be a joke song that would be on a Tony Hawk Pro Skater game. Favorite Song(s): -
Ah the memories, haven't listened to this in a while, forgotten how much I loved this album and scene, thanks ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
I tried, but I just couldn't.
Hell yeah
Yes, yes,,,good,,,,
This shit kicks TOO much ass!!!
RRRERWGHHERREGHHEEREHGEWWWWEUUUUUUHHRRGRRERRGGGGERGGUUUURRRRRGGGHHHEERRRREEGERREEEEEEGHHHHHRREEERRRRRBWERRREEFGHERREE!
One of the more influential metal albums of all time, what's it doing so far down in the ratings? It's fucking grindcore what that's too good for you people? This album mostly rips, but the weirdest thing is that the 2 halfs are practically completely different bands, as most of the first half guys left leaving just the drummer remaining I believe. It definitely sort of "devolves" in the 2nd half, having mostly super short songs, but it's still pretty cool
easy to have on in the background and terrible to listen to, which is about routine for death metal/grindcore. 2 stars.
First 1 star.
Grindcore is notoriously difficult to get into, so I get all the hate, vocals get tired, but some good riffs in this album,
not for me
Holy shit, no, what the fuck even is this?
1 - Nah
This was beautiful. I listened whilst having a relaxing bath and it lulled me gently to sleep. As the murky bathwater slinked down my oesophagus I felt the warm embrace of heaven's kiss. I saw the great beyond, divine mysteries unfurling unto me with unfathomable lucidity. Jesus was there riding a rainbow centaur with a Napalm Death neck tattoo. It was really something. Three days later I awoke in the ICU ward at the Krankenhaus Dresden-Friedrichstadt, to the smiling faces of my friends Ray and Nigel, sitting loyally at my bedside. They'd brought with them their transsexual goth friend who just sat silently in the corner eating a Happy Meal (the toy and all); quite the character. Best bath ever. 1.3/5
Extrem aggressives Metal Album das overpaced und ausser Wut und Gewalt kaum musikalisch ist -definitiv kein Hörgenuss.
Recognized this from the “lowest rated” list l, so was expecting it to be truly awful… but I actually think this deserves better. Sure it was super heavy and that’s not for everyone, but it wasn’t that bad and in places was pretty cool. Enjoyed the album length and would like to see some of these tracks defined and manipulated more.Title track ‘Scum’ was my favorite as others were just flashes in the pan, but not even close to 4th worst on the list.
3.5 I'll start this by saying my previous album was the fucking Culture Club. If people are complaining that Scum shouldn't be on this list then there's about 500 of other ones that are even less deserving. On to the album itself. I view this as two albums, two bands really. The first side is very, very good. I'm not a big grindcore fan but I can appreciate the importance of this. You can tell you're listening to something special, that kickstarted a movement. The second half is less good, the shrieks less convincing, the music less varied, it just falls a bit flatter. I'd say a 4 and a 3 respectively. Rounding up to bring the average up overall, because not liking something doesn't mean it shouldn't be the worst rated album on this list.
I just read that these were the first to do/popularise the blast beat thing, which would probably have been super interesting to hear back then. I'm not sure I totally like/understand it, but maybe that will come with time?? It for sure does work in some places over others. (for example the one in siege of power works really well, as it kind of feels more controlled). From my limited metal experience I think this sounds a lot more like modern or even some later 90s metal than other stuff before it (like the doom metal stuff). I really like the thrashy downtuned guitars and the weird analogue fuzzy lo-fi distortion that the bass or some other guitar has. The lyrics and messaging are great. Overall though, I'm not too keen on the less than 1 minute idea songs. Also I'm convinced that Spotify is just making up lyrics, theres no way he's actually saying coherent sentences in some of this. Favourite songs: instinct of survival, scum, caught... in a dream, seige of powerm control, born on your knees, M.A.D. Overall around 6/10
The story behind the album is cool but this is not my kinda thing.
I didn't understand a single word sung, so pretty good metal.
Not much to like about this album, but not much that I hated either.
EZ. xD Songs are short and album itself is also short. Can I appreciate this genre?! Probably not. But I laughed so much in some songs, where he was singing and I couldn't understand these sophisticated lyrics, and all I could hear was dog barking. >D Vau vau vau vau... Vau vau vau vau... Luved it!
How the fuck this album has 28 songs in 33 minutes?
говнометал какой то грайнкор, но то что это 80 это звучит свежо пздц
This album will always remind me of the time the wheelchair guy was transphobic to the bigger girl getting spit roasted in the disableds.
I was afraid to listen to this considering the reviews and scores. Turns out, not terrible at all. I’m a metal (80s thrash) fan, so this sounded on point. Nice, short compositions with aggressive drop-d rhythms and double-kick speed percussion. Not a fan of the growling vocals so I can see why others hate it and I also won’t be adding it to the heavy rotation album list.
Holy hell, what a barrage on the senses early on a Saturday morning, lol. Really got my blood pumping for the day. Grindcore is crazy. It's great that they put a parental advisory sticker on the album. The growling and shouting may be offensive to some...Funny since I have no idea what dude was saying. Lol, Napalm Death's song You Suffer is only 4 seconds long... Favorite songs: Siege of Power, Scum, Instinct of Power, Success? Least favorite songs: Multinational Corporations, Polluted Minds 3/5
Napalm Death - Scum This is one of those albums that it's so bad that it's good for how awful this is. What differentiates this from the rest of the other albums is how fun it is to listen, but for the wrong reasons. One second you were listening to heavy metal, the next you hear a middle aged dude talking in UPPERCASE while having an aneurysm, and in the second half you hear some high pitched creature that could rival someone like Playboi Carti in other to understand what they are saying. First half was actually not bad though, even with the raspy and heavy vocals, the instrumentals and drums made up for it, especially the drums, they really were going all places with it. But after the first 11 tracks, you only get mostly 30 second tracks and 1 minute tracks, which explains why despite having 28 songs it lasts 33 minutes in total. This feels like such a joke to listen, this is not what heavy metal's suppose to sound like. This is album has such a bad rating that even if I put a 10/10 on the worst song on the album for being too short (You Suffer), it won't change significantly that much at all. Overall, this is wack af. 1.- Multinational Corporations = 5/10 2.- Instinct of Survival = 7/10 3.- The Kill = 4/10 4.- Scum = 8/10 5.- Caught... In a Dream = 7/10 6.- Polluted Minds = 6/10 7.- Sacrificed = 5/10 8.- Siege of Power = 8/10 9.- Control = 7/10 10.- Born On Your Knees = 7/10 11.- Human Garbage = 6/10 12.- You Suffer = 10/10 13.- Life? = 3/10 14.- Prison Without Walls = 4/10 15.- Point of No Return = 6/10 16.- Negative Approach = 5/10 17.- Success? = 4/10 18.- Deceiver = 4/10 19.- C.S. = 7/10 20.- Parasites = 5/10 21.- Pseudo Youth = 3/10 22.- Divine Death = 4/10 23.- As the Machine Rolls On = 6/10 24.- Common Enemy = 3/10 25.- Moral Crusade = 5/10 26.- Stigmatized = 7/10 27.- M.A.D. = 6/10 28.- Dragnet = 7/10 FINAL SCORE: 5.6/10
Classic grind core. Pretty good.
8/10
1. Multinational Corporations - decent 7 2. Instinct of Survival - strong 7 3. The Kill - too short N/A 4. Scum - 10 5. Caught... In a Dream - light 7 6. Polluted Minds - too short N/A 7. Sacrificed - decent 6 8. Siege of Power - strong 8 9. Control - light 7 10. Born on Your Knees - light 8 11. Human Garbage - decent 7 12. You Suffer - too short N/A 13. Life? - too short N/A 14. Prison Without Walls - too short N/A 15. Point of No Return - too short N/A 16. Negative Approach - too short N/A 17. Success? - light 7 18. Deceiver - too short N/A 19. C.S. - strong 7 20. Parasites - too short N/A 21. Pseudo Youth - too short N/A 22. Divine Death - decent 7 23. As the Machine Rolls Only - too short N/A 24. Common Enemy - too short N/A 25. Moral Crusade - light 6 26. Stigmatized - light 7 27. M.A.D. - light 7 28. Dragnet - light 7 Favourite 3 Tracks - 1. Scum 2. Siege of Power 3. Born On Your Knees - NOTE RATINGS ARE FROM A FIRST LISTEN - SCORE - 7.2/10
Well that’s enough of that.
This album is one where I appreciate that the band had something unique going on more than I enjoyed the music itself. Favorite Track: You Suffer
Not much to say really. I don’t mind listening to stuff like this, just has to be the right time and place. It was neither of those for me when I listened. It’s not bad though.
This is not music and people should feel bad about liking it. Good lord.
"itsonly33minutesitsonly33minutesitsonly33minutes" - this is probably one of the only albums that made me physically grimace at work. And the only album I've wanted to give -1 star. Even worse than john zorn.
The last thing I remember is putting this on, and now, 15 minutes later I'm standing in my mom's basement and it is totally trashed.
Death metal or screamo. Not exactly sure. Didn’t hate it. Honestly, it made work go by a bit quicker. Glad it was a short album, though.
Hahahaha ok what the fuck Let's say that just because an album was a precedent at its time doesn't make it necessarily good. I mean technically speaking the music and lyrics are a solid 2 out of 5 (or maybe 1) haha, and I like (generally speaking) metal music but there's a lot of other better options in terms of quality. I can understand why is here in the list, again it was a precedent for its decade but bro.. I just cant rate it for more than 2
What the fuck? I feel trolled, is this what cavemen listened to back in the early days? Whatever they were saying in this must have been caveman language because it certainly aint a language people speak today. The only good thing here was the instrumentation which was actually pretty good but whatever the fuck else was going on didn’t do much for me. Rating: Trash (Light ☆) Favorite Tracks: Dont really want to return to anything here ever. I lowkey deleted this shit from my library, I haven’t done that before so take that how you will. Also I accidentally played this during class on full volume, so that’s fun.
I think the singer changed at one point because it went from ROARRRRRRRRRRRRR to more of a WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH! That was the best moment.
This was pretty harsh. Listenable but on the edge.
This rips. And it's quite funny. But it's absolutely knackering. 💀💀💀
Not my style - even for death metal
first listen badly recorded noise
This is not music. This is garbage. Scum contains a bunch of random sounds masquerading as music, but it's not music. Grunting is not singing! Truly one of the hottest, stinkiest albums I've heard on this list. None of it was enjoyable, thought-provoking, creative, enticing, or any other positive attribute. Even though I love learning about music, I cannot say my life is enriched from learning what grindcore is.
Um, absolutely not.
The one thing I appreciate about Scum is that it’s only 33 mins and somehow 28 songs. Did I make it through those 33 mins? Absolutely not, it’s unlistenable. 2.1/10
I can understand the low rating, as this is an extreme genre, and very early in the genre’s birth at that. Having said that I don’t think it deserves the roasting it gets - I’m not going to listen again, but there were some interesting elements here that I enjoyed. However, a bit like Trout Mask Replica, or We’re Only In It For The Money it’s very different to a standard type of album.
No lo terminé y ya estoy cansado. Horrendo estilo que nunca pude disfrutar. Doble bombo y canto gutural no equivalen a nada por si solos. Nota: 1.7 y pongo 2 porque aunque sea es el primer disco así que se sugiere.
1 star for 'You Suffer' which is self-aware and merciful enough to acknowledge the listener's experience of the album.
That one review stayed in my head longer than a single second from this album.
I am down for some grind core. I have heard of them. Never would have thought to see them in a list like this. But really interested in this album and what it sounds like. Very cool stuff. Very in your face.
Not for me. 1/5
Not my go-to genre and I’m. It allowed to listen to music like this in the house but there is interesting stuff happening here.
Gave up on it.
Heavy thrash/punk. Reminds me of Zeke and a very heavy Misfits.
The music is great - the growler ruins it. This album with an actual punk/metal singer would be A+.
This wasn't actually that bad. I enjoyed a lot of the music and, on a second listen, the vocals didn't have the annoying quality that my first impression thought. It's an awkward and deliberately difficult album, but one where I think would benefit from repeat listens - if you have the stomach for it! So, I'm re-rating this almost a year later. Out of all the albums I've discovered because of this list, Scum is the one I've listened to most. I think it deserves bumping up to a 5. Distinctly different and worth perservering with.
not my type. over the top death metal with a lot of loud noise that doesn’t sound well thought out
Lasted about 5 songs in, this was not for me. I hate the vocal style and just couldn’t get into it.
Interesting choice for this list. The music is frantic and often not synced with the vocals. It’s fast and loud, which is the style, but that makes it less technically impressive. At least the songs and album are short. 2.5/5 Probably won’t listen again
It wasn’t that bad. I don’t enjoy the barking, but the riffs are pretty good and they stop before they get boring
crap
Not a fan. The vocals are a hard pass for me. I tried to give the instruments a chance, and while they were okay individually together they were a mess. At least the songs were short.
1. As music, this sucks. The singer is screaming at me through a bowl of oatmeal and I don’t know a word he’s saying. Based off the song titles, I think he’s being political or something. But I didn’t understand a single grunt or scream, so I couldn’t tell you for sure. 2. This rides off of its vibes real hard. It is about being pissed off, not about being musical. It’s almost like they’re using the music as a bludgeon to whack you over the head with their anger. It’s an attitude, a line in the sand. I respect that. 3. The music sucks. I really want to emphasize that point. It’s getting a three because sometimes you want to listen to something that shuts off your brain and makes you want to punch a yak, and this fits that bill.
Not sure this really deserves to have the 4th lowest overall rating.
What I envision they use when they torture prisoners.
The only thing I enjoyed about this album is that most of the songs are very short. When I saw 28 tracks, I thought, “How am I going to get through this?” then I realized the whole album is only 33 minutes... Whew! It’s almost like they came up with a fun riff, played around with it, and boom, that’s a song, because they clearly put no effort into the vocals.
$5 punk shows, 1-minute songs, and Napalm Death. They burn through songs like a cocaine-fueled chainsaw though a 1/2" piece of plywood. Good stuff.
Good. Sometimes hard to distinguish songs, but super fun to listen to. The drumming is off the hook.
Not my brand of metal.
First? 2,5/5 Again? 1,5/5
Very funny album. Turn the dial all the way up to the max, why not? Is it good? No, not really. Is it cool that they made this? Hell yeah.
Not my choice in music. FYI. The song You Suffer is the shortest songs to date ( 14 February 2025)
The hell was that?
Music is alright, but I don't speak Napalmi, so couldn't understand the lyrics.
“Divine Death” is the standout track because it is the only song to feature briefly intelligible vocals. The rest is growling grindcore metal where devotion to speed outweighs intelligibility, rhythm, and musical technique. Drums are hit as loud and as fast as possible, same with the guitars and microphone. Sounds like all the grindcore local bands I grew up with. But those hometown groups were no doubt aping these iconoclasts. Grindcore is a style, that much is certain.
One thousand and one albums to hear before you die? Scum feels more like an album to speed up that process. Halfway through, I found myself drafting my will and Googling "quick, painless exits." The album boasts two completely different lineups on each side, yet somehow both are equally committed to not knowing how to play their instruments. The production sounds like it was recorded inside of a tin can left in a damp basement, and the vocals? Imagine someone attempting to recite Klingon poetry while being chased by a pack of rabid dogs. That’s Scum. You’d think with some songs clocking in under 30 seconds, they’d at least have the courtesy to be brief and coherent. Nope! The shorter ones are just concentrated chaos—like the audio equivalent of stubbing your toe repeatedly. If given the choice between listening to Scum again or scrubbing toilets in Dresden's sketchiest bar for the rest of my life, I’m buying rubber gloves and a bucket.
Frenetic Drop-D powerchords. Thunderous drumming. Lyrics delivered in a demonic shout. Repeat. 28 times. Awful.
my ears are bleeding
Straight garbage 0/5
I literally don't have anything to say apart from the fact I was offended by the idea I had to hear this before I died. If I could give it less than one, I would.
An album from the 80s that still sounds properly extreme today is quite the achievement. Condensed pissed-offness on a record, doing everything just because they can, and still surprisingly groovy lots of the time. Godawful mixing and drums that sound like they were recorded on dustbins in an alley (this is a positive thing). But the best part about listening to this has to be fantasising about the perplexed reviews I'm going to find asking wtf this is😂
Rating: 2/10 There's some decent songs on here, about 2 or 3 and some other decent riffs. The problem is when 20+ minutes of this is constant blast beats and incomprehensible vocals. I love some extreme metal but this is just overbearing, I can respect what they are trying to go for but musically most of this is unlistenable.
Holy jesus lord have mercy and I ain't even religious. Nope nope nope.
This was the first album I actively wished I could turn off, but I had to see it through. I'm sure this album was groundbreaking or something, it's gotta be on this list for a reason, but God damn, that was difficult. Would absolutely not relisten.
Grungy dark metal - Pretty rough even for metal music - Screeching instrumentals and indistinguishable lyrics makes it hard to listen to, had difficulty finishing the album
Not appealing but appreciated trying something new
Grindcore is not everyone’s cup of tea but I have friends in grindcore bands so I have heard a lot. It’s not my favourite but sometimes it scratches a particular musical itch
maybe i just like it because i'm a contrarian but i do like it even though it STRESSES me out
It finally happened, I found something worth 1 Star. Thank GOD this was only 33 minutes, and yet somehow it felt like it lasted forever. I will not entertain the concept of "music is a form of expressive art" to justify this album's existence. This genre only exists because drugs and child abuse do, and it's fanbase needs to seek therapy. I thought this would at least be listenable at the gym, instead I contemplated letting the barbell crush me to death so I wouldn't have to finish the album. There were times where the drums/guitar could've been redeemed with some coherent vocals, but instead we got a dog in a man's body who ruined every track with their inaudible barking. I would've rather listened to a clip of my parents fucking. At no point in your incoherent rambling were you even close to anything that could be considered a decent album. Everyone in this generator is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you 1 Star and may God have mercy on your soul.
This is the beauty of doing this project: one day, you're singing along to "Good Day Sunshine" while you review The Beatles' Revolver, the next day, you're reviewing the infamous Scum by Napalm Death. Life truly is beautiful in strange ways. I don't think I've ever listened to grindcore music before, so I don't have any funny anecdotes about sexual misdeeds in Dresden bathrooms. However, I did have sex with a pregnant coworker in the back of my Honda Civic one time, but that was after seeing the Owen Wilson flick Drillbit Taylor, so it's not really the same thing (I was going through some shit, and this was not my brightest hour). Anyway, let's crank up the Scum! First of all, this album cover absolutely rules. In the year of our lord 2025, this needs to be everywhere. Throw a Meta and Tesla logo on there, and you're good to go. Also, the guy in the very center is clearly DJT. As far as listening to this album goes, this was certainly an adventure. I like the shorter songs that are prevalent in hardocre punk, and I thought that structure was used really well by Napalm Death on this album. I enjoyed the driving pulse of the songs on this album too, and I thought the heavy metal elements of this album were used really well. I liked the lyrics to these songs as well; they really embodied the direct and angry themes that are present in the lyrics to hardcore punk songs. My biggest beef with this album is that it was really repetitive, and I couldn't really distinguish that many dividing lines from song to song. To top that off, I thought these lyrics deserved to be more intelligible, because they were really great, and I was bummed that I had to look up the words to every song. I know this album is one of the more poorly received entries on this list, but I thought it was pretty decent, and it's definitely influential. I'd be down to give another Napalm Death album a listen, but I there's not a whole lot that would bring me back to Scum.
Metal roaring that lands just on the wrong side of understandable for me. Id consider myself a bit of a metal head but grind core is just not my jam. Great fast and furious sounds but cant get past the vocals.
no im okay, thank you!
The cover had me half-expecting something like this... but it was actually worse than I anticipated. I don't know how to make this review sound anything else than an old person complaining about something, but so be it. I don't listen to grindcore so I don't have anything to compare this with... but boy this really is bad in every single aspect I can think of. It's just a wall of sound that hits you with no finesse whatsoever. The tracks are completely indistinguishable from each other to my ears. On top of that the mix is complete trash, everything sounds so incredibly bad. Perhaps some parts could've been salvaged if that wasn't the case, but probably not. In the end I didn't manage to sit through more than a couple of songs before turning it off. Hot candidate for worst album on this list, maybe even of all albums I've heard ever. Just like some others have said, the only realy joy I got out of this was reading some of the crazy reviews.
Was pretty sure this was going to be a 1 star and it is. For brief moments like in "Instinct of Survival" it feels like there is a good riff and feels like some old school thrash metal. Then the "singing" starts. Not only is the vocals abrasive but so are the drums. The mixing sounds horrible and compressed. 28 songs in 33 minutes is a feat. I'm glad it wasn't longer.
The best song on this album was the one that was 3 seconds long. And it was still a terrible 3 seconds.
Groundbreaking record with some good bangers. One point deducted because I caught syphilis at one of their concerts in East Germany.
I get it, it's fine, but the idea of hearing it again doesn't fill me with joy
Stop mumbling.
++: Multinational Corporations, Instinct of Survival, The Kill, Scum, Caught... in a Dream, Polluted Minds, Sacrificed, Siege of Power, Control, Born on Your Knees, Human Garbage, You Suffer, Life?, Prison Without Walls, Point of No Return, Negative Approach, Success?, Deceiver, C.S., Parasites, Pseudo Youth, Divine Death, As the Machine Rolls On, Common Enemy, Moral Crusade, Stigmatized, M.A.D., Dragnet 9,7/10
Just a little too, well, everything that it is. Too much of all that.
Soon as I saw this album cover, I said outloud, to nobody "oh christ what is this garbage". And yep. Absolute trash.
Didn’t like it
As a metal album with incomprehensible lyrics, it’s not bad. It’s angry and energetic, though it never really grants the catharsis that the best kinds of angry and energetic albums do. The tracks all blend together, and by the end, you’re pretty much glad to be done with it.
I feel genuinely bad for people who can’t find any fun in this, even when you only have to listen to it once for an album generator hobby. I was never big into Grindcore by any means, and only the real try hards at school would mention Napalm Death. Now I’m in my thirties and I’ve been presented with an opportunity to listen to an entire album and I gotta say, it’s very fun. It’s also a great to have something heavy come up on this generator once in awhile (Metallica doesn’t count for me)
Was fine at first, although the grunting isn't for me; but the latter (well over) half of the album ruined it for me, that should've all been cut imo.
Not really my thing
Made it half way through, but it was rough.
I used to say I hate metal. But I'd much rather take this over a lot of modern stuff. I had fun okay?
I like how positive this one is. /s
Erfreulich kurze Titel (5s) wechseln ab mit Geräuschen aus den Innereien des Teufels. Ich hatte fälschlicherweise angenommen, dass Blood in Reign von Slayer (die bekannte Patienten Band von Shutter Island) das Maß aller Dinge im Produzieren von unerträglichen Geräuschen sei. Da lag ich wohl daneben. Es liegen jetzt noch 630 Alben vor mir. Bin gespannt ob das noch getoppt werden kann.
1/10…extreme metal / grindcore 🤦♂️
Hard pass.
Almost charming with how (I guess) it is trying to provoke. Reminds me a bit of a 14 year old painting his bedroom black and wearing a lot of studs. Bless you Napalm Death, you keep showing us what big boys you are. Perhaps I would be more impressed if I could understand literally a single word the vocalist was grunting into the microphone. If you listen to just one of these songs, you've basically heard them all. Second album I've heard on the list that's so bad it's good after S&M by Metallica. However, I'm very glad this is on the list, this is the sort of album participants should be being made to listen to, such an outlier from the mainstream, and I have to say this was a much easier listen and less of an endurance test than most of the more mainstream albums on the list. Honestly torn on how to rate this. On one hand, it is almost objectively garbage. On the other, I certainly enjoyed listening to it.
Great rhythms but don't relate to the vocals
Gravelly Death Metal. OK, but after a few songs I was hoping for more harmony.
Good grief - it's quite something.
klasyk
I love metal but this was a tough listen. Every song sounds the same, like they entered a competition to smack drums as quickly as possible. When they actually slowed the songs down, they weren't so bad. The singing on the other hand is like an unholy mix of the cookie monster and Arnold Schwarzenegger. But while the music is terrible, they absolutely nailed the name of the album and band, as well as the album cover. I guess that shows some sort of vision.
I always forget the technique involved in the genre and always blown away by it
I don’t mean to sound like a complete contrarian here, but this album is a masterpiece. A breathlessly ferocious take on metal by a band that totally changed the game (more than once). Metal without pretension at a time when the likes of Malmsteen and Vai were wanking their fretboards to the tune of nothing. I saw Napalm Death (albeit a completely different lineup to the two that played on this record) in Glasgow last year and what struck me was just how leftist their message was in a genre with a penchant for the reactionary. They must have played about 400 songs in the space of 90 minutes. It was exhilarating in the way that guys who like watching free jazz get off on that racket. I can only imagine the negative press this record gets on this website is the result of Robert Dimery’s selections encroaching upon middle America’s fixation on the Eagles and the Doobie Brothers. But Scum wipes the floor with all of that tiresome ear wash every day of the week. If folk are prepared to give Miles Davis and John Coltrane a chance, it would do them some good to appreciate the intentions of this record. Napalm Death are a unique force in music and you absolutely must listen to this record before you die (even if only once).
it was fun listening to the first 10 minutes of the album while digging up sand super fast in Minecraft. However it is way to screamy or whatever you call it, for my taste. A solid 3.
okay so i probably gave this an unfair advantage by listening to it at the gym
The worst thing I have ever heard. I couldn't even finish it.
The album cover is cool. And speaking of music well, the instrumentation is exactly what I like, fast and aggressive, distroded and noisy. However, speaking of the vocals, I have to say although I do live screams in songs, there is just too much of those in here; at least sing *something*. Or simply just make an instrumental album already! I like the album in general, it's a 3.5/5.
Early grindcore. I can admire it even if I don't like it. And you have to appreciate the vision of the band(s). [Different one on each side] Brutal.
I tried so hard to like this but idk it seemed so childish. Doesn't feel like punk. Fav Songs: Do I have to?
This was the album the algorithm decided to assign to me on Christmas Day… it was fun!
If I could rate this zero stars I would. Awful noise, the vocals are completely unintelligible (sounds like the noises I imagine a caveman would make if he was teleported into a live electric chair). It seems like the rest of the band's goal is to play as fast as possible with no regard for whether their instruments actually sound good together. If someone I knew told me this was their favourite album I'd hand them in to the police as an obvious wrong'un and wonder how my judgement was so poor as to have made this person an acquaintance
Couldn’t listen. There will need to be a compelling story in the book for me to revisit
They were one of the first to do this, and certainly the most influential, but they were not very good at it at this point. It's a mess. It's not even the same band on all songs. Two sessions with only the same drummer. Songs of the 2nd session are better, production of the 1st session is better. They got better later, when they became a metal band. This is more hardcore punk like Discharge, D.R.I. and Lärm, but there's definitely some Slayer in there as well. It was so influential, they even got to play national children's TV and all. Favorite song: common enemy.
Death metal das ist nichts für mich
bad
The two stars are for the whole tranny jumping and the wheelchair dude.
Classic sound, vind de riff game nice, geniet eigenlijk van alles behalve de vocals, die werd ik echt wel moe van tegen het einde aan en is een kort fucking album Als we het over oude extreme metal hebben zou ik 99/100 keer Kreator of Venom opzetten ipv dit Ik wil het meer geven want eerste metal album in de lijst voor ons maar de vocals maken het een 3,5
Mental
Really? This made it to 1001 Albums? This is like comparing cave art to the french impressionists, it cant be done. This group/album is a joke. Can anyone make out a word, any word in any piece. This would get zero stars if it were a choice.
Classic case of thinking it wasn't as bad as I was expecting then realising the speaker was playing stuff just 'like' Napalm Death. So double the grindcore for me. Still, there was melody, in so much as it wasn't atonal, riffs & brief. I actually listened again to decide if 1 or 2 because on first listen this was no way as bad as Throbbing Gristle or Butthole Surfers. And lol to the 1 second long song. My ears are ringing but it's not in the same bracket as the other 1 ⭐s. Wonder what the lyrics are...
It's a thing
I did not enjoy this album at all, it just sounds like an amalgamation of sounds, and the singer does not help at all as it just sounds like he is making random sounds and calling it a day.
Hugely influential for countless acts in an admittedly niche extreme genre. But borderline unlistenable today, even for the acts Napalm Death influenced? 3/5 for the purposes of this list of essential albums 8/10 for more general purposes (5 + 3) Number of albums left to review: the 80-ish extra LPs listed on this app, included because different past editions of the book have mentioned albums that have since been dropped in subsequent editions. Number of albums I'll keep in my own list: half, approximately Number of albums I *might* keep: a small quarter, approximately (including this one) Number of albums I won't keep: a large quarter
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this is fun I had fun. grind core is a very accurate genre title for this. I don't think this will be an album I return to but what an interesting listen! 3.5/5
Feels like a parody made by somebody who hates the genre. It's what I would send a friend right as they're getting into metal to make sure they stop their pursuit. Just awful
The music was so bad that the one good thing going for them is how different this sounds than anything else on this list.
Coarse, grating, and utterly inaccessible but at least it wasn't 90 minutes of songs about women filled with endless twelve-bar blues solos.
I like the first part of the album that's more death metal like way more than the second half where they start to hone in on the grindcore.
Nice message, bad music
Fuck man. As I write this I'm teetering between a 1-2 star (or a 2/10 or a 3/10 if you will). It's funny that I love punk music but never could get into metal and this album explains why. Many of the songs sound the exact same, and the vocalists ( I know there were more than one here) are awful. The same goddamn pitch, and I don't think I understood a single word said the entire time. It's not void of musical importance and everyone and a while the drums would come through with something interesting but then that goddamn voice would come back and I'd want to stab my eardrums out. You know what? 2/10 saved only by some cool song names and the fact that they kept most of the songs (and album) short, even if this was some of the longest 33 minutes of my life.
Well, I knew this day would come so I suppose I was better prepared then most. Like any normal human I wanted to turn this off half way through the 2nd track, "Instinct of Survival". Perhaps it was just morid curiosity to see how much worse it could get had me leave it on for my entire drive to work on the first really cold day of winter 10f (-11c!). It was pretty much all the same song with the rapid drums, way to loud everything and of course there's unintelligible "singing" . "Siege of power" had a guitar solo. At least towards the end that other guy started screaming some like a weird little goblin. Deserves 1 star for being objectively awful but I made it through the whole thing, so Gott help me it gets 2 stars. Album cover is kinda cool
Not my vibe
I found it hilarious 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂
Note what I hoped for when asking for some Metal albums :')
I kinda get it, music is hard to write and sometimes you just want to scream and bang on things. My personal least enjoyed genre is hardcore punk and this is like the metal equivalent to it. Nothing interesting here, probably inspired better bands but this just extremely easy riffs over blast beats in 1 min succession's.
No idea what the fuck they're saying lol but goddamn this album goes hard \m/ Makes me wanna break stuff TIL the drummer on this record helped coin the term 'grindcore'
Extra point for the shortest track „You Suffer“ and the partly unwilling humouristic appeal.
2.1 2x catch up 12/6/24 interesting album and short
Not particularly impressive or interesting. Noise. Torrent of shit, even. Maybe if I listened a few more times, I would get it, but it would probably break me.
1000 albums + 1 cruel joke called Scum by Napalm Death.
Favorite Track: None
I might have been into this 25 years ago when I was 13. Best thing this has going for it is its brevity.
Un album où le fond et la forme ont la même fonction, soit rebuter et cracher sur tout ce qu'on tient pour acquis. La succession de pistes très courtes évoque autant d'explosion. Une réussite si on considère son but.
Not gonna listen allthat
I imagine he'll sounds like this, for some I'm sure it's exhilarating but not me
Nope. Not sure how the songs are marked as explicit lyrics when you can’t understand a single word of a song.
Um. No.
1- Stars (1/15)
okay.. instrumentals weren’t bad, but the vocals are not my thing.
01) Multinational Corporations - 1,0 02) Instinct of Survival - 1,0 03) The Kill - 1,0 04) Scum - 1,0 05) Caught... in a Dream - 1,0 06) Polluted Minds - 1,0 07) Sacrificed - 1,0 08) Siege of Power - 1,0 09) Control - 1,0 10) Born on Your Knees - 1,0 11) Human Garbage - 1,0 12) You Suffer - 10,0 13) Life? - 1,0 14) Prison Without Walls - 1,0 15) Point of No Return - 1,0 16) Negative Approach - 1,0 17) Success? - 1,0 18) Deceiver - 1,0 19) C.S. - 1,0 20) Parasites - 1,0 21) Pseudo Youth - 1,0 22) Divine Death - 1,0 23) As the Machine Rolls On - 1,0 24) Common Enemy - 1,0 25) Moral Crusade - 1,0 26) Stigmatized - 1,0 27) M.A.D. - 1,0 28) Dragnet - 1,0 TOTAL: 1,32 (13/100) Current ranking: 367/367 Hahahahaha... What kind of crap is this? This sounds like listening to my dog barking at some noise in the background. Except my beagle has a more pleasant bark than the vocalist in question. The best song is song number 12, it goes straight to my playlist and deserves the highest rating! Why? Because it lasts exactly 1,316 seconds. The album is only 33 minutes long, you should give it a listen, you will have a good laugh, I promise!
PEDRADA. papo reto nada melhor do que um grindcore de leve pela manhã pra animar o dia
ê caraio o quarto pior album da lista. ah, nem é tão ruim. grindcore é doideira mesmo, fazer o que. meu humor não tava dos melhores então caiu até bem
So with 15 albums left I finally got to listen to this, at one time the lowest rated album. Proof that this 1001 is purely comprised of incredibly niche genre groups and nothing to do with the 'best' albums. The Genres are so marginal it's amusing. I hope this stays on the chart but at the same time it's poor stuff.
Every song sounds the exact same and there are 28 of them
Comically bad. Felt like some sort of parody, tempted to give it another star for making me laugh. I’m about 150 albums in and have now had 4 of the 5 lowest rated ones. Good to get the crap out the way early.
A horrible listening experience