Scum

no

It had to be done and they did it. Well done.

One of the best Grindcore albums I’ve ever heard

I don’t care much for grindcore, but occasionally ND’s anarcho- and crust-punk influences come to the surface in a brief moment of accessibility.

28 songs, 33 minutes long. Couldnt understand a single word and it was labeled explicit. 2.5-3 rating. Nowhere near the best thing I’ve heard but far from the worst

Me: this ain't so inaccessible. I'm not hating this Also me: we must also be done. What! Only half way through a 30 something minute album?! Feels like it has been way longer! Grindcore takes some outa ya.

Oh my goodness. This is unlistenable to the point of complete hilarity. I just laughed as I listened to this, read the lyrics (you can't understand a word of them, adding to the general hilarity), and read the reviews. So funny. It gets 2 stars rather than 1 because it's blessedly short and so entertaining. It takes a lot of skill (especially that drummer!) to sound like this, you have to respect that degree of effort for something so utterly unlistenable.

Not for me

Wow - what a ride! Perhaps one of those albums I did need to listen to before I die. Now ready to meet my maker. Can only imagine how exhausted the drummer would be after a live gig. Lot of technical brilliance, but - no surprise - can't stand the vocals. You Suffer was a treat though.

not my thing 👹

1/25- Going to school (blizzard)

My ears are bleeding. I can’t hear any words. Guitar is epic. And drumming is absolutely wild.

Not for me but it needs to exist for other bands to exist.

I'm somewhat surprised Napalm Death is on this list. I definitely see their influence in metal / specifically death metal, but I think it's not nearly as large in magnitude when compared to a lot of other bands with similar sounds (Suffocation, Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel). I'm guessing that they are here though because of age- they were around in the early 1980's compared to the mid/late 80s like those other 3 acts that I listed that I personally think are much better than ND. Napalm Death are famous for their super short tracks. It might not be on this album but I think they have one song that has a music video that is 13 seconds or so long. Pretty funny. The song "Scum" has a main guitar riff, and it is essentially the same exact guitar riff as the first guitar riff that I ever wrote. I wasn't aware of Napalm Death at the time and wasn't really listening to this kind of sludgy death metal so I'm convinced it was coincidence, but I think it's funny that this band would have that riff and (regardless of time for the sake of argument) it is so similar to a riff that I wrote after playing guitar for like 4 months. This is a very funny nuance in the psychology of being a musician and I think that it somehow unconsciously waters down my enjoyment of them. "Polluted Minds" into "Sacrificed", tracks 5 and 6, are a good example of why I hesitate to add them to this list. The songs sound very very similar, and there's not much substance in general there. Sure, it's an emotion, and music should convey emotion, but there's not much to get from there. 2/5.

2.5 Loud, but I can see why people that like this kind of music would be attracted to it.

I didn’t turn it off but boy was that a long half an hour

I can’t fully hate a band who has the audacity to put a four second track on an album with a straight face

Ah, Napalm Death... I appreciate that they exist, and I am sure they were heaps of fun live, but do I really want to sit down and listen to this album? It is hilariously badly recorded; guitars awash with chorus (side a), bass like a fart, cookie monster vocals and cymbals, cymbals everywhere. So many cymbals... Confession time; my band in the 90s did a Napalm Death inspired song, that ran to 15 seconds. At one memorable gig at Macquarie University, we played it nearly a dozen times in row, which we thought was hilarious. The audience was less impressed. I admire the pace and energy, and I love the commitment to brevity. "You Suffer" is a landmark in that respect. Much is stated of their 'socially aware' lyrics, but I mean, really, how can you tell? And it all starts sounding pretty similar after 10 or 15 songs, especially the less developed material on side b. In truth, you only ever need to listen to one Napalm Death song, and that is their cover of "Nazi Punks Fuck Off" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdkdR92a7dU

Are these... words? Is the lead singer speaking or just screaming random syllables into the microphone? I honestly can't tell; he sounds like the heavy metal version of the Swedish Chef. The best thing I can say for this album is that it's only 33 minutes long, which is about all I could stand. Not the worst thing I've listened to; it could have been much, much worse. But definitely not anywhere near the best I've listened to either.

On the plus side, at the time I was starting to loathe the album it was almost done, props for that. Grindcore sound is so so so boring… like you just know they try too hard to sound hard it’s embarrassing really

For being so short, that was kind of a slog. I started rockin' out a couple of times but for the most part was just waiting for it to be over. Couldn't understand a word.

There's no getting around it - this is awful. But I decided to read the lyrics while I was listening, just so that I could claim to be looking at this thing objectively. Turns out the lyrics are surprisingly poetic in a nihilistic sort of way. Would never listen again of course, but the lyrics bring it up a point even if they are completely incomprehensible while the singer is "singing".

Me: “Can we have some metal?” Mom: “We have metal at home.” Metal at home: Seriously though, shoutout to the singers for taking inspiration directly from the sound of me vomiting.

There's some of this that I really like but I can't stand vocals like this. Very torn between a 1 and a 2.

The album cover certainly has the courtesy to let you know exactly what you are in for. Which is, to me, too much. There are seeds in here of music I will enjoy, especially side one. But this particular album is just fast and angry and unintelligible. None of the songs stood out as individually interesting. If you can fully develop your idea in less than a minute maybe it isn't much of an idea? Although honestly You Suffer did have a certain charm.

3/10. Not even that bad at its worst, a bit generic but generally okay at its best. Its worst of course referring to whenever the guy started singing.

Did I enjoy it? No. But it was only 30 mins of my life I guess

It sounds like people who don't listen to metal think all metal sounds like. Drumming is very impressive, aswell overall technique by everyone other than vocalist (who is not extreme and or grotesque as much as everyone else). But overall it's not really my thing.

Nah

I had this dream that an army of dwarves wielding hammers and chainsaws were productively building away inside my brain, and it was not altogether unpleasant at first, but they continued, and continued and eventually I got used to them and hardly noticed them at all, but then some other thoughts ventured over to the armies of construction dwarves and they were like, "yo, we have to figure out how to get to the vet and orthodontist at the same time today" and the little dwarves just kept on hammering and sawing and finally I had to take away their tools and tell them that they weren't really accomplishing anything, but it was pretty impressive how fast and loud they could be.

Absolute noise

Not exactly my vibe. Don’t love being yelled at but the instrumentals were impressive.

Already aware of this album and while i'd love to enjoy such a seminal and heavy british album, the mix is just too ropey. The engineering sounds fine but the choice to mix everything in a cloud of chorus and reverb, and to have the guitar level so low, just makes it a struggle.

I like it when talented musicians go out of their way to create something new and difficult. But I'm never going to listen to that again.

Ok it’s way, way, way too much of the same thing, it gets outright tedious in its chaos, but there’s some chunky riffs in there and I’ll take this over bland dance music. I dare someone to tell me they understood the lyrics though.

inte så dålig som jag trodde

You'll hear: "Choo, choooot ayaya ayaya chooo chooo ayayyaya". But it means: "I've been deceived by my friends and this is where our friendship ends" GREAT, relevant, political lyrics, too bad you can't understand anything. The music has a lot of energy but gets somewhat boring after a while.

Grindcore really isn't my thing.

Feel like I could get into this one time. Weird that the everything sounds behind the drums.

Not as bad as the ratings would imply, it's just a politically-minded hardcore album and what you see is what you get. Heavier music and hardcore especially, much like coffee or beer, is an acquired taste that you have to step into – jumping into this album without much prep is like swigging a beer you stole from your dad's fridge at age 12. The production sinks this one to a two for me since the guitars are muddy as hell, but otherwise this completely tracks for a Reagan-era hardcore album.

It says something when I can listen to this longer than I can listen to an ambient music album. Having said that, I don’t really understand this type of music. Could not believe it was from so long ago also!

Nah, not for me. "You suffer" is decent, but too long, and most of the others sound similar (if less focussed). Still, at least it's not Nico or PSB, so they can have another 🌟 for being interesting - even if I genuinely never want to hear this album again!

This was a good album to listen to on the treadmill and that is the one and only time it will ever be played. Grindcore is in no way something I’d ever choose to listen to and I got no enjoyment from it, but I’d still rather listen to that than some of the new wave albums that have come across this list.

Not for me.

Not my thing. It does sound surprisingly modern for being from the 80s though.

Good thing I listened to the full dynamic range version or I wouldn't have been able to understand a word he said.

Better than I was expecting? Definitely not my cup of tea but I did find my head nodding along in time at a few points. Side A is definitely more my speed, feels like just very heavy punk rock/metal, whereas Side B leans more into the noise and deliberately low audio quality. I don't think, by any means, I'll be seeking out any more Napalm Death to listen to. But I think there was something these guys were trying to do and they achieved it, even if that thing isn't something I like.

4/10

Not really my thing.

I got some enjoyment from this in fleeting moments, mainly the occasional decent guitar riff or baseline. But is all a bit of a mess really. Even the guitar sound is annoyingly fuzzy and the drumming is frenetic to the point of losing any sense of rhythm or purpose. I much of it is borderline unlistenable - but I guess that’s the point

Points for consistency. I feel like they both created grindcore and brought it to its logical conclusion. This is so fucking annoying to listen to by the end.

The song "Scum" is the best thing on the album. The rest is difficult to enjoy. The music is good, the singing/screaming/barking is bad. I give it 2/5 for the music, 0/5 for the screaming. 2/5

Seriously impressive metal riffs and drum work but the vocals were insurmountable, in my opinion. Album would have been fun without lyrics but i found the muffled yelling and in later tracks screaming to be distracting and then punishing.

wow does that drummer like to use those cymbals.....singing hilarious

Grindcore en la seva expressió primigènia. Entenc que més que per les seves qualitats intrínsiques, l'"essencialitat" d''Scum' ve per la seva irrupció, en plena època de Whitneys Houstons, Madonnas i Geroge Michaels, amb el seu so atronador i la seva violència sense paliatius. Recordo la trascendencialitat de quan va sortir i la seva influència posterior... però mai m'ha semblat un disc per disfrutar de la seva escolta, sincerament

Not really a fan of the vocals, but some of the riffs are interesting. I also wish the songs were longer and a little more dynamic. I understand why this album is important, but it's not my cup of napalm.

Napalm Death ft. Randy from South Park on vocals This is the kind of music that if you tell people you like it they either think you're really smart or that you chew on bricks for living, no middle ground. +1 star for being from the West Midlands

Hard to listen to. Extremely influential. Some parts I quite like, but overall... meh. Don't even like death metal that much.

SCUM! not nearly as bad as i expected.

Grindcore? Nah.

Uma mistura de "putz, não tenho trocado hoje não" com "fala que nem gente porraaaa" Duas estrelas pela capa e alguns sonzinhos até que legais

Most songs, shortest total album time - is that what this album is on the list for?

Each song was a short angry carcophany. The guitar work and drums were good but honestly had no idea what the vocals were saying. I would have scored it higher if there was more variety in the songs but honestly by the end I could barely tell one song from another

Seeing that there were 28 tracks in 33 minutes I knew I was in for something different, and that it definitely was

has merit, but it didnt sit right with me today.

Not nearly as horrible as expected, given the fact that it's one of the ten lowest rated records. That being said, I mostly enjoyed the instrumentals. Sometimes they were too gritty, but that's nothing compared to the vocals.

Like the instrumentals, but the grindcore vocal style just isn't for me.

Rather silly, didn't do anything for me

They are scum

I feel a little bit dumber

Certain albums that have shown up on this list are difficult to put into words. Scum by Napalm Death is one of them. I honestly have no idea who could find this remotely enjoyable, especially once the band shifts back and forth between a relatively normal punk/metal tempo and something almost unearthly in its fury, anger, and sheer speed, with vocals screamed with such force that the lyrics become completely unintelligible while seemingly forcing its listeners to uncontrollably shit their pants. I don’t think I’ve ever experienced a true migraine, but I’m fairly certain this is what one would sound like. Was I glad I heard Scum before I died? That is the eternal question, isn’t it? I’ll let my rating provide the answer. P.S. This album almost got a 2 just for one specific scene in Silicon Valley, where Gilfoyle uses “You Suffer” to track the volatility of Bitcoin in the office.

While this is OK when they are doing straight metal, the rest of the time is just a brutal assault on the ears. It's just not a great listen.

This wasn’t the one at all. Distorted sound, can’t even hear the lyrics. Turned it off

Need I say more?

Behöver jag ens säga något. 1/10.

schlimm. ned chönne fertig lose.

No thank you

Me: I hope I get a nice chill, easy listening album today Album generator: Scum by Napalm Death

It was scum, yes, so 5/5 on title accuracy. It's like the dead dove do not eat meme of albums.

Screaming gibberish vocals. Instruments rock

Not for me

RAH BUM DAH! BA-DAAAHHH!! *extreme speed drums and guitar playing the same chord or couple notes* GUH GUH MMMMMMBAMMMMMM MRUHR MRURH!!!! AAAYYAA YAAA RRUUUUUHHHMMM!!!!!! *song ends*. And yet the lyrics actually are precisely punk and fight the power (apparently, not that you would know any of that). Cool album artwork, but can't get behind something that I so actively dislike listening to.

Scum music.

This is a fucking joke right? Am I being punked? Sounds like someone threw their instruments down a hill then ran over them in a truck all while screaming out in pain. If ever an album deserved a 0... this would be it.

This is the first album that I tapped out before finishing. A indecipherable wall of noise accented with mumble screaming is just not it for me.

Not for me

Not really my style. I’ve never been into this kind of hard core metal.

Unsurprisingly couldn't finish this as listening to the entire album would constitute a form of self-flagellation.

Probably the worst thing I've ever listened to. Favourite song - You Suffer.

Well. At least I learned that I don’t like grindcore

Album #129: Scum - Napalm Death Genre (W): Grindcore, crust punk Singles: You Suffer I have not listened to this album before. Thoughts?: Another bad listen. I can’t understand at all what the vocalist is saying because he seems to be obsessed with growling. Plus, everything sounds muddled and the production and arrangements aren’t that great. Favorite tracks: None of them.

Atrocious

What a bloody racket! I don’t like this at all. Less than 1 star…

can this generator let up on me? i’ve already rated a metal album one star this week.

fav songs: siege of power you suffer 10/100

WTF

I don't get it. But siege if power is alright and the surprise electric guitar in polluted mind is fun. The gremlin singing in the back half is hilarious. Looked up the lyrics because they are incomprehensible. Typical themes from the genre. I'm surprised at how much I like the punchiness of the lines. Weird that they bother with rhyming couplets when they're recited through a vuvuzela. Glad I listened to it before I died. Would not listen again. 1 rat.

Es un disco monotono con letras ininteligibles, la grabación suena amateur. Se entiende fueron pioneros en el metal y en el genero grindcore, pero este disco es dificil de escuchar completo. La unica cancion a la que le encontre forma fue siege of power.

I once saw one of the members of Napalm Death perform ‘Ace of Spades’ with Yard Act at Rock City in Nottingham. Having listened to this album, I understand why they didn’t play one of their own albums. It mostly consists of unintelligible growling and indistinguishable sounds as it apparently moves from track to track (it’s impossible to tell when they change really). Truly awful.

This album is 33 minutes of growling vocals, blast-beat drums, and sludgy guitars. Every track is practically identical. If you like that sort of thing you may enjoy this. Personally, I prefer albums that demonstrate at least a vague awareness of the concept of ‘melody’. Side one was awful, but side two, recorded nine months later by essentially a different band (only the drummer remained from the previous line-up) was, if anything, worse. Somehow the new vocalist was even more irritating and there were even fewer occasional glimpses of something slightly better, like a half-decent solo or riff. Just no.

I have heard this album before and my opinion on this does not change: Crindcore sucks ass. I understand that this started the whole grindcore movement, but damn, I don't like this

Oh come on now, just fuck off with this crap. Negative 20

This was definitely a listen exercise - I can't believe I made it through the entire album. No doubt there is some skill tied to be able to play instruments like this, but the whole lot of it honestly came across as noise. Just a terrible listen.

Three songs in - “This isn’t nearly as bad as all the reviews say. It’s not good but it is at least different from most of the albums on the list and worth giving a 3. Eight songs in - “Ok, I see why most people don’t like this but I think all the 1s it has been given are a bit harsh. It’s worth at least a 2.” Nine songs in with so many (thankfully short) songs left: “Yep, this is 1. It can’t end soon enough.”

WTF!!

Scum by Napalm Death is, for me, officially the worst album I've heard during this challenge. The good news is that it's short. The bad news is that those 33 minutes somehow felt much longer. With 28 tracks averaging just over a minute each, I expected the album to fly by. Instead, it felt like an endurance test. From my perspective, it's 28 songs of relentless shouting, blast beats and chaotic noise. I know that's exactly what grindcore is supposed to sound like, and I can appreciate that the album was hugely influential in creating an entirely new genre. Unfortunately, influence doesn't equal enjoyment, and I found almost nothing here that I connected with. There was no point where the album grabbed me or made me think differently about the music. Instead, I spent most of the running time waiting for it to end. It was one of the hardest listens of the entire challenge. I know this record has a passionate fanbase and an important place in extreme metal history, but it's about as far away from my musical tastes as it's possible to get. Favourite tracks: None. Nothing here made me want to hear it again. Least favourite tracks: Take your pick.

No fav song

I'm not opposed to blast beats, sludgy guitars, harsh vocals, or even intentionally difficult music, but this is just stupid. The brief glimpses of actual music, the occasional intelligible riff here and there, make the rest of it more frustrating. I'm tired of giving pity points to albums just because they're influential or novel. There are so many extreme metal bands out there that have made real music with the same ingredients.

no

of all the solid 1-star albums, i enjoyed this the most so far

I feel bad for other albums I've given one star to now. This was zero stars. It's completely impossible to listen to, I managed 3 tracks. Even Lou Reed's Machine Music is easier to listen to. You couldn't even use this as white noise. This is sounds you'd use to torture hostages.

Harsh, chaotic metal

Scum n 3: Any refuse or worthless matter. That about sums it up for Scum, the album. Went in with an open mind, had to listen to this one twice to be sure it was as bad as I thought after the first listen. It was, and I had the lyrics during the second listen. The lead vocals (which were horrible) were unintelligible even while reading the lyrics. Even without the vocals, the music is not good. Scum (title track) was almost tolerable, and Life? actually made me laugh out loud. Simply put, Napalm Death is not for me. (0.45*s) Pretty sure I could die more peacefully without hearing Scum. I’ll take my 66-1/2 minutes back…

Wooof...we have hit a list low. Scum is beyond. Evil corporations destroying the planet, government oppression, human garbage, death to all. Skeksi paired up with a warthog demon on vocals is atrocious. Same fast paced guitar and drums...must just be about message. Had to pull up lyrics for each song, can't understand a word. "Siege of Power" was the only coherent one and for that takes only spot on the record as listenable. I did hear "Born on your knees, fucking asshole" in there. I was cracking up at this and how it is even real. Stay away from anyone who listens to this for enjoyment. Can't imagine the concerts and the people at them...nightmarish. They are all probably really nice guys though. I think Napalm Death played in Ace Ventura. Grindcore ain't for me but thanks to the list,I have checked the box for the genre. Pure sanctimonious slime straight from hell...0.0666 stars.

Yep. Nope. For the most part I could care less about a bunch of 1 minute songs with the same insanely fast beat and growled lyrics that you can't understand. The first time you hear a song you are a little impressed at just how fast everything is going. The drums are so rapid that they almost sound electronically generated which I guess I can appreciate on the surface level. Then you get a thrash guitar riff and death growl vocals that you can't understand so you just shrug your shoulders and dig your heels in to get through it. After the first 5 minutes I was completely over it. I had the lyrics up for the majority of this album and even with that I still couldn't follow along. Didn't sound like they did anything different with anything else on this album other than a 1 second song buried to end side A. Evidently there is an audience for this somewhere. Critics somehow find this to be important enough to give positive reviews and include it on this list but I'm not into it. I'm not sure I'll ever understand the allure of this style of music outside of a live setting for a specific type of audience who knows what they are in for. If I heard this in the wild I would turn it off or leave the area. Not my bag in any way whatsoever. Would it be a compliment to them to call this pure Scum? This may end up on the bottom of the list as a lot of the other bottom of the barrel entries at least bring some sort of ironic entertainment out of them. Outside of an insanely fast drum beat, which is cool for 30 seconds but really not enough for any other merit, I can't think of anything else to take away from this one. 0.03 stars?

I am a metalhead but this is unlistenable. Music for mentally handicapped people.

Too much noise, but that’s the genre lol

No thanks... not for me

Not my type at all

Get the fuck out of here

Look, I'm sure this is important somehow but this is just banging on the cymbals over the same heavy metal riffs with some growling. This is a 1.

No private session used for Spotify. I had to wait until afternoon to put this on as I know its not an album I could handle in the morning. After listening, I am not sure when I could handle it. I love me some metal, but this is just too much, music to club kittens to.

The songwriting process must have been something like this: "If you bang the drums really fast, I will scream something incomprehensible." "And for the next song, you do the same, but than with another vibe. Try to keep it up for 1 minute." "Wow, we have 28 songs in 33 minutes, that must be a great album!" As I read the Wikipedia, it has been 2 recording sessions, but I rest my case.

This album really has me re-evaluating my entire rating scale. I was clearly too harsh with my other "1" ratings.

Put pins in my ears instead

That's some noise.

1 I once listened to Drakes 'certified lover boy' just after it had come out in an attempt to understand what all the fuss was about with him. Because of that punishing mistake this was only the second worst album I've ever heard - at least napalm death kept it under 30 minutes. There were points in this where for 15 seconds or so I'd think, this isn't so bad - a nice guitar riff maybe. And then the singer would start scream/growl/choking out something completely illegible, or the drummer would decide to see how fast, hard and tunelessly he could smash up his drums and it was back to being awful. The fact that the second half was by an almost entirely different group of musicians was the most impressive bit, because they'd somehow managed to find people worse than the first lot. I've tried to see the positives in the albums I haven't enjoyed so much, and almost all of the time I can get why other people would. But it's genuinely incomprehensible to me why anyone would actually chose to listen to something like this. Sorry to those who do :(

Not for me

I'd rather die a Napalm Death.

i can see why this is lowest rated......

I've heard descriptions of people taking salvia - the super weird and disturbing 15-minute hallucinogen - who say they took it and said the experience was like being trapped as a fiber of a carpet for 1000 years, and it was extremely distressing for the nightmare and unpleasantness to end. This is what this album sounds like to me.

I don't want to sound like an old man about an album that came out before I was born, but it's just noise. I can't tell any sound apart from any other one. It's just an endless torrent of... noise.

0.0

My goal in life when I retire is to create my own Top 1002 Albums Of All Time playlist for people to try. It will be better, less shoe gazer, and have a lot less small town Brit bands who never saw success outside of the island. Shit like this album will not be tolerated. Those aren't words he's "singing", it's as dark and dreary as anything I've ever heard. I do understand there is a market for this, those guys who live under the freeway have to listen to something. SHOCKINGLY they have one song with 7M listens, the title track, which is super catchy (I prefer the Taylor Swift cover). Even the 1.5 minute songs are too long! Zero value. Musicianship is ham fisted and juvenile, the mix is murky and fills every gap. Then he yells over machine gun drums. This is possibly the worst album I've reviewed thus far. No influence, no hits, no longevity, no good songs and no stars. I'm glad my kids never got into this and won't be living under the freeway.

This is about as bad as it can be.

Every song sounded the same and I could not for the life of me determine what the vocalist was saying. Also, the instrumentals mushed together like they were beating mashed potatoes with an industrial mixer on the highest speed setting, which made it difficult to determine the skill of any one band member.

Not my style really, but again I see why people like it.

Just not fucking with it tbh.

Nope. Absolutely not, just no.

Boo

Twenty-eight tracks with an average run time of a minute and ten seconds, so it's only thirty-three minutes you'll never get back. Still, the best thing for me about this album is that I'll never have to listen to it again.

Napalm would be more fun than listening to this.

No. 409/1001 Multinational Corporations 2/5 Instinct of Survival 2/5 The Kill 1/5 Scum 2/5 Caught...In a Dream 2/5 Polluted Minds 1/5 Sacrificed 1/5 Siege of Power 2/5 Control 1/5 Born On Your Knees 1/5 Human Garbage 1/5 You Suffer NR Life? 1/5 Prison Without Walls 1/5 Point of No Retrun 1/5 Negative Approach 2/5 Success? 1/5 Deceiver 1/5 C.S. 1/5 Parasites 1/5 Pseudo Youth 1/5 Divine Death 1/5 As the Machine Rolls On 1/5 Common Enemy 1/5 Moral Crusade 1/5 Stigmatized 1/5 M.A.D. 1/5 Dragnet 1/5 Average: 1,22 Tried to go in this with open ears and to find joy in some of it. But on top of it being pretty grating it is super repetitive.

God lord no. Per google the lyrics are actually good but that could be fake news as they’re completely indecipherable in the singers low bark

Meningslös genre, obegripligt slöseri av metallriff.

Jag gillar heavy metal men den här var inte kul

Só barulho.

i'm sure this is culturally significant for some reason. however it is also unlistenable. when "scum" started playing i was like "oh at least this is an ok guitar riff" but then the guy started growling again and that's when i stopped

Awful. Was going to give it a 2 cause it made me laugh a few times but I was listening to it on speakers and now my neighbours are going to call the men in white coats. Thanks Napalm Death

If I could give this a 0 I would

Horrible

This was horrible. Sounded like a bad garage band just beating on drums and trying to play electric. Couldn’t understood a word he “sang”.

It was so loud and utter rubbish-I could do better

Just random noises. I don’t see the vision.

Only positive was that I couldn’t understand the lyrics-so much guttural shrieking. And just loud noise-even the dogs were turned off by the sound

Yeah - rubbish

Noise in a bad way. 2/10

Well, at least all tracks are short

??? nunca escuché algo tan espantoso

Ewwwww

No odio tanto la vida como para que me guste esto

Canciones de 1 min y medio Molesto inaudible

NFM

I’m not really into this style of music. Heavy metal has never been my favorite, but I didn’t dislike this as much as a screamo-style album. It was short and kept me awake at work.

Nah 1.5

Unlistenable. Who would recommend this? A good argument for negative star ratings.

What on earth was that

nah

I tried. Just can't get down with this kind of hardcore.

Must be an acquired taste.

No💜 Son 28 canciones de no más de 1 min de ellos gritando💜

I wanted to like this album based on the cover art alone. I like punk. I love metal! This just sounds like unrehearsed noise. Its only redeeming quality was how short the songs and album were for my own sake.

There are just two songs on this 28 track album that are over 2 minutes long. That fact is the best thing about this album. Each track sounded like the one before it. And each made my ears bleed. Now, get off of my lawn!

I couldn't make it past about 4 songs. I turned it off and raw dogged the morning commute rather than continue to punish myself.

I thought this was a joke but apparently it’s not! Felt like it was about 32 minutes longer than it needed to be. Like a bad horror movie, just when you thought it was over it kept coming back. 1

Only a one-star because zero point zero isn’t an option. Unlistenable slop. No redeeming characteristics.

I feel like my grandma when I say this, but what’s the racket?? Sounds like Frankenstein in the throes of being born.

1/10 Garbage. It did make me question what is music, what is talent, why am I doing this? But it absolutely offended my musical sensibilities. And that doesn't matter, but it does mean you get 1 star. Horrible

Ridiculous inclusion, absolutely terrible, can we move on please...

Horrible. I was just driving home and suddenly I had the experience of being in a mosh pit. Which is not something I enjoy. I understand that on the bell curve of things that qualify as "music", this is... on there, but it's right at the tail end.

"Augughjfudjdhjgghhgjfj" I'm pretty sure that's an actual quote from this album from what I could tell.

No thanks. Not for me.

Haha

Gnarly, DNF.

Genuinely don’t know how anyone listens to this and thinks it’s good.

Unintelligible gibberish, and 1-2 unique lyrics per song. 28 songs and 33 minutes is not good avg. song length. The song title is probably the only lyric in the song.

Vocals are gutteral screaming, guitars and drums are skilled. Sounds like a neo Nazi hate rally. Not for me. The reviews do not disappoint!

Grindcore. Litt som å bli banka en halvtime i strekk. Monotont og litt vondt. Top 3: -

Its death metal

Funny for all the wrong reasons, but mostly because it defines the stereotype and takes the garbage that it is so seriously. The band can’t play its own songs, but didn’t take the hint and played them anyway.

Brutal.

Cant do it

uma bosta

1/5

I lasted 9 minutes until I had to cleanse my ears with Stevie Wonder.

Awful

20/04/26 isso vai ser um lixo equalizado igual meu cu repetitivo pra um caralho parece que os caras escutaram uma música do gênero, tiveram 1h pra aprender a tocar os instrumentos e gravaram *emoji de caveira* é tudo igual - a virada da bateria, a voz, a guitarra não escuto death metal, mas eu tenho certeza que ele não se resume a ser igual assim deixaram as músicas de até 3 min com alguma coisa interessante a acrescentar no início, o resto é skit tmnc a bateria fez o mesmo padrão 1000 vezes em 5 min, e o cara até para gutural o cara n sabe falar - existe gente que sabe fazer e existe esse mano orororororororororor!!!!!! - esse cara em todas as faixas alguém confisca a bateria desse cara e coloca alguém que sabe fazer alguma outra coisa ou virada em siege of power trocou, ele tocou a bateria de fato e o outro aprendeu a pronunciar :0000 e aí voltou a mesma bosta pq tem uma faixa de 4 segundos kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk essas letras são inventadas dps da gravação n é possível acho que é a pior coisa que eu já ouvi, desculpa nine inch nails 28 faixas tortuosas por serem idênticas - sem vocal entendível e com a mesma bateria 2 se diferenciam, mas é tipo lixo dentro de um bando de merda foda-se o antifascismo aqui, execução de bosta 0/10 / 0/5, infelizmenre vai ter que ser 1

This was actually horrible. Totally incoherent noise. I hated this. Sometimes the riffs were okay and then vocals would come in and destroy anything they had going. This was just bad. I was counting down the time and number of songs til it was over. Also what is up with sub 1 minute songs? So weird....they all blended together anyway. I gave this 0 stars on my app lol Liked Songs: None, but these songs had okay riffs - "Scum" , "Born On Your Knees" , "Parasites" , "M.A.D."

There are amazing albums out there that represent the metal genre. This is not one of them.

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.

.

No.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

ugh

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.

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

Not at all sorry

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

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

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.

Would rather be lobotomized than listen to this again.

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

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.

Not for me.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 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...

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.

Not my jam.

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...

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

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.

Lol. God no. That's absolute shit.

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

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 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

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.

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.

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

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

Gonna pass

I don’t believe people actually like this.

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.

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.

Not for me

For meget speedmetal.

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

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

- 0 nummers toegevoegd aan MMMM - 0 nummers al toegevoegd aan MMMM

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

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

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.