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Scum by Napalm Death

Scum

Napalm Death

1987
2.08
Rating
21867
Votes
1
41%
2
27%
3
18%
4
9%
5
4%
Distribution
Genres: Metal Styles: Death Metal, Thrash, Hardcore, Grindcore

Reviews (page 6 of 8)

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.

Put pins in my ears instead

That's some noise.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

¿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.

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

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

0/5. Why is this even considered music.

white noise

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

just no.

Not for me

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

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

ruido.

uf no, es metal. o algo así

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

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

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

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

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

Bloody awful racket

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

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

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

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

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

Favorite Track: Scum

Beaucoup trop intense pour moi.

My ears are bleeding. Please sirs, consider therapy.

Horrible.

Even my 18yr old said it was just noise.

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

No. Just fucking no.

Unintelligible mumbling

How did we even get here?

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

Putrid.

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

Hateful music for hateful people!

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

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

I gave it a shot

bro there's no way

Diverticulitis incident incident genuine halo window into indicate

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

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

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

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

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

Felt like I had a seizure

Just noise

1.5 cool instrumentals at least

I’ve seen them a couple of times and there’s something to them live, but there’s no reason to ever listen to a Napalm Death album.

Horrible.

Not my cup of tea, or at least a little heavier than I cared for yesterday morning. Not that it was bad, just I prefer more melodic or progressive styles of metal.

Ears are still bleeding. Would I listen to again? Only if I were deaf.

If I could create music targeted at 13 year old angsty boys, this would be it.

This record both is and sounds like a constipated poo from a butt. Favourite Track(s): You Suffer (I was already suffering) Least Favourite Track(s): This entire record.

Almost listenable in spots…

The dreaded day has arrived. "Scum" by Napalm Death is actual ear-rape.

Comical. Scum sounds like a thrash band hammering away at a chaotic jam session in a school gym while the illegitimate spawn of Cookie Monster and Animal from the Muppets screams muffled, high-speed lyrics through the locked door.

Oh what complete crap 0/5

Nei, dette ble bare bråk. Funker nok bra for de som liker det.

no thank you

This album has precisely all the elements I don't like in the Death Metal genre - unintelligible vocals, speed for the sake of it, barely any melody, and to top it off a somewhat mushy mixing. I wanted to find a compliment but didn't find anything to hang to. Oh wait, found one: it could have been a longer album.

I am a fan of metal in general, but this is barely listenable. The members barely stay in rhythm with each other and everyone plays so loud you're not even sure what you're listening to. As the album progresses, the sound gets a bit better however. I learned this is because the two sides of the album weren't produced by the same folks. Like the Ramones, I feel like this is the kind of music that is meant to be experienced live, where a lot of noise drowns everything else and you create a massive moshpit. That being said, this is undoubtedly an album that had an immense influence on death metal and the other types of metals that I use to listen to all the time as a teenager.

This is my internal spirit animal whenever I get behind terrible drivers. Also, this album is straight trash.

No me gusta el metal. Me resulta demasiado intenso

Yeah no

Sem comentários!

Twenty eight short songs featuring Brian from family guy barking at things. 2/10

This has to be a bit Every time the guy “sings” it feels like it’s coming out of Randy Marsh’s mouth

The worst on the list and then some. Sounds like someone violently retching. Go away and don’t ever come back.

Crappy vocals

it was better when they weren’t “singing”

Only because I can't rate it a zero

The best thing about this is how short it is. Titular song isn't terrible, but the album has its place on the worst rated albums list for a good good reason!

Grindcore, Hardcore Punk, 1987 -> 1

TBH it feels unfair to rate this, it’s just utterly miles from anything I’d choose to listen to, but it’s unfair to say it’s bad. I just absolutely hated it. But you know, I’ve heard all the British Invasion albums a million times and never heard anything like this before. So, mission accomplished 1001 Albums project. Still gonna give it one star though. Sorry not sorry

You can't judge a book by its cover. I would have thought this was a 1 Star album that was completely unlistenable. But actually, it's a 1.5 Star album that is ALMOST completely unlistenable. There is actually some impressive speed metal skill, if only you could remove the vocals — garbled mutterings intended to be heavy or dark but are actually just silly and gimmicky. Still, I can’t bring myself to round up to 2. So maybe you really CAN judge a book by its cover…

"Scum is the debut studio album by English grind core band Napalm Death, released on 1 July by Earache Records." This is the opening sentence describing this album from Wikipedia. I have to say that between "Scum," "grindcore," and "Earache," I felt that this was more of a warning label than straight information. I listened to this album like a prospector sifts through silt and debris hoping to find something to enjoy, and like many of them, I ended up artistically discouraged and broke.

I'm genuinely intrigued as to the creative process behind this album, I can't envisage the band sitting round a table in the pub over a pint and one chips in with "I've got this great idea for a track!". Especially when it's a 28 track album lasting little more than 30 mins, there's a 4 second track for goodness' sake. There were ocassional moments of musicality but they were quickly barked out of recognition by the vocalist.

Whoa!!! Too much energy and anger for an early morning! Gets your blood up, though!

OUCH!!!!!!! Though oddly it does presage by almost 40 years the sounds coming from Washington DC these days!

sounds too thin

Boy I do not like this. Least favorite thus far. The lowest of 1s

My ears not happy

Not for me

Boring. Predictable. Sounds exactly like I thought it would sound. Chugga chugga chugga guitars. Drumming as an endurance sport. Growly muppet vocals. Tempo and rhythm changes. Maybe that means they made the blueprint that everyone else followed. Or maybe that means they’re just a bunch of metal cliches stacked on top of one another.

I just don’t understand the appeal with this genre! Im really trying but this shit just sounds like unnecessary loud noise to me. I’m still holding out hope for a metal album that moves me but it damn sure ain’t this one. Upon further listening, the instruments kick ass but this mfer sound like he got the mic stuck in his god damn throat…

Moro moro :D On kyllä ihan paskaa tämä, livenä vielä paskempi, silloinkin kuunteleminen jätettiin kesken kuten nyt tätä kuunnellessa. Ei nappaa vaikka raskaampaa musaa kuuntelenkin.

To the author of this list, Fuck You. Nothing with pig vocals ever needs to be listened to. The instrumentation is mostly good but the vocals are absolute trash and make this unlistenable.

Hülfe -4/10

Not my genre

Olihan tämä nyt aivan hirveää paskaa. Tuntui, että kuunteli samaa biisiä kokoajan. Jos tämä albumi tehtäisiin vuonna 2025, niin viihdemuotona tämä olisi youtube-video otsikolla "This is how heavy metal sounds like to pop-listeners". Levyä voin toki suositella, jos haluat tuntea, miltä kuulostaa kun joku huutaa sinulle samaa asiaa eri äänensävyillä puolen tunnin ajan. Siihen tämä on täydellinen albumi.

Nojuu! Oli kyllä yks vaikeimpia albumeita kuunnella. Oikein alko vituttamaan jo ennen puolta väliä. Harvoin musiikki ylistimuloi, mutta tässä oli paljon asioita ja räminää , mutta silti niin tasapaksua... Taito kai sekin, mutta ei millään tapaa arvostettava. Välillä piti tarkistaa, että onko kuulokkeissa vikaa, kun oli niin äsryttävää klippailua biiseissä ja välillä piti oikeen tarkistaa, että lähtikö Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät soimaan. Ei kyllä millään mittarilla hyvää musiikkia. Laumalle eläimiä annettu intrumentit ja laulajallakin jokin kohtaus joka biisissä. Tykkään raskaasta musiikista, mutta tästä puuttui se musiikki... Tämä oli vain raskasta. Ter. Markus

Не знаю, в каком надо быть настроении, чтобы захотеть слушать подобное шумовое агрессивное безумие… Я послушал для галочки и не уверен, что захочу включить когда-то ещё. 2 из 10.

an amphetamine fueled piece of garbage from some Dead Kennedy wannabes. The lyrics are completely unintelligible. It's fitting that this shite was released on Earache Records. The guitarist is ok and the drummer is well, fast. At least most of the 28 tracks are short (the album is just over 30 minutes long)

Can't get past the nonsense screaming.

Ihan ei kaikkien kappaleiden tarinat auenneet, mutta plussaa siitä että ne olivat lyhyitä. Ironisesti vähiten joutui kärsimään You Sufferissa.

Chujowe w chuj

I get it was one of the first of its kind. But not real listenable for me at my current age. Maybe younger me.

Hmm. Needs more extended roars to be worthy of Aggretsuko's karaoke. ⟨ꐦ৲`⌂´⟩⁋

One of the "top 10 metal album of 1987?" WOW! I could see having fun seeing this band live, really leaning into the absurdity, and not giving a fuck that the band isn't tight. I'd be satisfied buying the record if it was a buddies' band, but not in the context of best albums of all time.

I only had to listen to the first few songs to get an idea of what this was. Not for me.

Ist das Kunst oder kann das weg?

Совершенно не моё

Oh my god shut the fuck up

Absolute crap. I would rate it 0 if I could

Too hard for me to

How is this one of the best and most influential albums of all time?

I don't remember any of the songs. I never at any point knew what a single track was about. The band was actually pretty good, but it's hard to realize that when your ears are being assaulted by some guy basically barking into the mic over and over again for 2 minutes straight. Vocals were terrible. Every song is the same. What else? I guess one nice thing to say about it is thank goodness it was short.

Hot dumpster fire

Not for me

How this made the list is mind blowing. Can’t give it a zero. Sorry!

Not my vibes man, too shouty