Scum

The vocals sound like when you're fighting a big dumb monster and it's mad that you're trying to choke him but you're hanging from its neck so it can't reach back and grab you and it's really annoyed so it's just trying to shake you off really hard

1/5

First, it's horrendous. Second, wouldn't it be hilarious if a band called "Napalm Death" was actually, like, smooth jazz?

I totally dnf’d this album halfway through even though it was only 33 minutes long I just couldn’t do it. I can see why some people like this album but it is just not for me personally. This is an album that I do not see myself revisiting anytime soon.

I gave it a try, but not my piece of cake.

Track 12, You Suffer: Running time is listed at 0:04, but I think the actual song is shorter. Spotify says the lyrics are “You suffer, but why?” All I can hear is “urrrgagahhah” so if he’s really saying all that in that brief strangled growl then I’m impressed. I had a headache when I put this on, so the odds were stacked against me enjoying this album. I did actually have a laugh, though. The comically short songs, the deadly earnest political lyrics with zero nuance, the guttural screaming. I don’t think this is supposed to be funny but I just can’t take it seriously. I get wanting to channel your late-stage capitalist rage into this form. I get wanting to jump around in a crowded room while a man screams onstage. 1 star because as music, I don’t want to listen to it. But thank you for the laugh.

As with Sepultura and the like, I just can't get past the vocals here. Side one had some minor redeeming musical qualities, but side two was much worse. You can't really tell where one song stops and another starts.

I did not like this.

I am like Gilfoyle in Silicon Valley, I use "You Suffer" as an alert tone on my phone. Other than that, this album is awful. I'm a big metal head but this is just unintelligible garbage. Maybe that's the point? 1/5

Favorite track: “You Suffer” You know what they say about things that are subjective (art, music, theater): You either get it or you don’t. I don’t.

1/5 This is a true stinker. Very hard to listen to with the drums way too heavy in the mix and the incessant and incomprehensible screaming. I'm glad this was short. Best Song: You Suffer (because it was only 4 seconds long) Hopefully I never have to listen to this again

Nope.

33 minutes, 0 words understood. I'm no metalhead but this is just sorta boring, but at least the guitar was kinda cool. Still better than Korn though.

I fear I'm not clever enough for this.

Well, my complaints about being fed so many low rated albums resulted in us getting the fourth lowest rated album in the generator. Sorry, folks. Not a fan. I was between a 1 and 2 on this. The guitar playing is OK, but I think it’s just more distorted than impressive? I was thinking about the other albums I’ve given 1s, and then, when I started considering not listening to the whole thing, I knew this one needed that rating too. I did, however, listen to it all.

The title and cover art alone made me not want to listen

Unlistenable garbage. Sounds like parody. There are grindcore bands fronted by literal dogs who sound better than this.

33 minutes of caveman screaming.

Hideous

Honestly, this is just noise to me. Not a fan.

Grindcore apparently music bereft of melodies and vocals you can't understand.

Couldn't finish it. Too much for me.

Ugh

0.5

New bottom of the heap. (1.00/10) ½★😒 Quite honestly, at times I wanted to give them a slightly higher rating, especially when they were throwing out some Metallica like riffs. But ultimately between the growling singing, if you want to call it that, and that every time he sang, all they did was bashing drum rolls and fast nonsense guitar. It was not only gawd awful, it was undeniably unlistenable. The fact that that makes up a majority of the album, especially on the latter half, I ended up just pissed off and ready to f'king shoot my speakers

Has comedic value, but I mostly hate it. 1 star

So, despite having 28 songs on this album, I've learned that Napalm Death really has two types of songs. The first type of song sounds like you threw a group of hyperactive kids in a room without their Ritalin and gave them some instruments. Then you invited a guy who appears to be the child of the Cookie Monster and the girl from The Exorcist and had him growl over it. The second type of song starts with a fairly cool thrash metal riff, and you think to yourself, "Hey, cool, an actual song." But after ten seconds it just turns into the first type. I almost want to rate this higher for the comedy of it all, but I cannot. 0.5 stars.

1.5

Nope

...What the hell was that? No. Just no. How the hell did this album get into the list of 1,001 albums you must listen to before you die?! Pretty talented musicians I guess... then the singer just starts spouting gibberish. No. Absolutely not. I'd give it a 0 if I could, so I guess it's getting a 1. Thankfully it was a very short album.

super intense and no fun

Wtf? Someone’s pissed as hell about something, I just can’t quite make out what it is.

Rubbish

Won’t listen

Första jag inte orkat lyssna klart på. Funkar bara som live act! Etta!

wtf man

Artig, men ikkje for meg

Oh no. No no no. Still better than Drake though.

Yeah I hated this.

Terrible

I give so many of these albums 3-4 stars that it’s almost refreshing to get something like this that reminds me that there are albums I really dislike. Felt like a very long 33 minutes. No decipherable lyrics and a lot of Cookie Monster screams.

I appreciate their dedication to short, hard-hitting tracks and a unified aesthetic, but the grindcore vocals make this pretty much unlistenable to me.

For me good metal needs to be tight. This is lazy slop

Не слушаю такой жанр. По крайней мере, металл и все его разновидности начались и закончились для меня в 2023

No doubt, the guitarist and drummer are incredibly talented. But I wasn't able to decipher a word of English from the songs. It all sounded completely the same and halfway through the album I had to stop because I developed a headache. No disrespect to the band, this isn't for me.

Not my thing

I’m upset this exits and that I experienced it.

I can’t tell if the whole thing is a joke or not, and the people who like this kinda music scare me, so I’m not gonna ask them.

I discovered I don’t like grindcore death metal

Absolute fucking shite! Delete delete delete

Not music, just noise

Absolute talentless shit from start to finish

The style of music is definitely not for me, I appreciated that the songs were quick though. I also didn't hate it as much as I expected to after the first couple songs. I could not understand what was being said in any of the songs, but it sounded angry and frustrated. 2/10

This is unpleasant. There's very little for me here. The only saving grace is that the songs were short, and so was the album. There were some sweet riffs when the singer occasionally stopped, and that is all that is keeping it from a 1/10. "Scum" and some other songs were OK because there was basically no singing. Even then, most of them were just people slamming their instrments as hard as possible. I don't think I feel the feelings required to enjoy this. 2/10

Not my cup of tea. Some of the guitar riffs and drumming are actually good but boy do I dislike the vocals.

About 7 songs, 2 I actually enjoy, and 20 sonic anger attacks.

Not good

Painfully bad and not musical at all. Hard pass.

Haha unserious

Sounds like trey Parker parody

This is not for me. The band is fine, the singing is not art.

Made me smile this did. Not as bad as feel they want to be, but just well a bit shit. Shit album name literally, shit cover what are you 14 and just well shit. Sabbath distortion Riff on riff, hammer the drums and childish Cookie Monster err vocals. Didn’t find uncomfortable just piss poor, someone is actually chainsawing outside as I listen, and that has better sound, no really it does, better tone more fluidity. If you want to listen to this good for you. Kerrang! 50th best British album of all time, oh you little scamps. 1 Star cause made me smile 0 Stars for the err “music”

I’ve never been able to get on with Napalm Death. The second half of the album was worse than the first.

*pulls Napalm Death aside* “Hey guys, what the hell was that?”

Nope.

I'm a bit torn on this. The actual musical aspect, the guitarsass\drums etc is actually quite listenable for me. It does get a bit repetitive, but which genre of music doesn't. The vocals just grind though. I get that this a stylistic choice for grindcore, but it's just painful to listen to. I was intrigued by the wiki page showing that the two sides of the album were recorded in different years by almost entirely different lineups. I could not discern any real difference, which may say more about me than about the band/album. I made it to track 6 on side 1, and track 3 on side 2. It only gets a 1 star from me.

Nope.

I hate the singing. None of the songs last long enough for me to remember anything about them (which in hindsight is a good thing, considering how dreadful this was)

i just can’t get into grindcore

Takes no talent, band should be slapped, hard

Liked the lyrics

complete shit

I didn't listen after the first couple songs cuz why would I voluntarily let my ears be raped by this shit?

Nice to see that by 1987 metal is at least beginning to evolve a bit, and opening itself up to slightly new forms and directions. On the other hand, most of this is still guttural, incomprehensible pointlessness. 1.5☆

this sounds like something you would play as a joke when you pull up to a stop light

If you asked someone who didn’t like heavy metal or punk rock what they thought the genre was like, this album is probably what they’d come up with. Nothing pleasant to say about the listening experience aside from it being shorter than most albums.

imagine me just waking up, putting on my headphones and hearing this music (if you can even call it that) blasting into my ears: not the best uh? -♾️/5

so so bad it's almost funny. The screaming is horrendous, some muffled screams instead of those in metal that actually transmit energy.

Whose idea was it to bring forward Napal Death to general audience? This is the type of band that should operate only amongst its fans, which is in deepest dungeons, in solitary confinements and in every edgy 13 year old bedrooms. Last time I've heard this album in my laryngologists office, when he wanted to show me the potential effects of not taking care of my throat. Napalm Death is not a band for everyone. To be very precise, it's a band for no one. Simple experiment of how far we can go before it stops being music at all. They reached this threshold within first notes of their second song, and then explored terra incognita for another, extremely long, 30 minutes. Clearly, humanity has failed in its progress, if we ended up here. Just a quick note, if this list will show Cannibal Corpse as well, I just simply quit. Otherwise, great album, no notes, great job!

Good lord. More “music” to be tortured by.

It's really crazy that not only someone paid a studio to record this, but also that it was released and available for purchase. There are approximately 45 songs on this album, but the whole album is 30 minutes long. And each song is also somehow exactly the same. Any of these songs sound like they could be a joke song that would be on a Tony Hawk Pro Skater game. Favorite Song(s): -

I tried, but I just couldn't.

First 1 star.

Holy shit, no, what the fuck even is this?

1 - Nah

The story behind the album is cool but this is not my kinda thing.

Napalm Death - Scum This is one of those albums that it's so bad that it's good for how awful this is. What differentiates this from the rest of the other albums is how fun it is to listen, but for the wrong reasons. One second you were listening to heavy metal, the next you hear a middle aged dude talking in UPPERCASE while having an aneurysm, and in the second half you hear some high pitched creature that could rival someone like Playboi Carti in other to understand what they are saying. First half was actually not bad though, even with the raspy and heavy vocals, the instrumentals and drums made up for it, especially the drums, they really were going all places with it. But after the first 11 tracks, you only get mostly 30 second tracks and 1 minute tracks, which explains why despite having 28 songs it lasts 33 minutes in total. This feels like such a joke to listen, this is not what heavy metal's suppose to sound like. This is album has such a bad rating that even if I put a 10/10 on the worst song on the album for being too short (You Suffer), it won't change significantly that much at all. Overall, this is wack af. 1.- Multinational Corporations = 5/10 2.- Instinct of Survival = 7/10 3.- The Kill = 4/10 4.- Scum = 8/10 5.- Caught... In a Dream = 7/10 6.- Polluted Minds = 6/10 7.- Sacrificed = 5/10 8.- Siege of Power = 8/10 9.- Control = 7/10 10.- Born On Your Knees = 7/10 11.- Human Garbage = 6/10 12.- You Suffer = 10/10 13.- Life? = 3/10 14.- Prison Without Walls = 4/10 15.- Point of No Return = 6/10 16.- Negative Approach = 5/10 17.- Success? = 4/10 18.- Deceiver = 4/10 19.- C.S. = 7/10 20.- Parasites = 5/10 21.- Pseudo Youth = 3/10 22.- Divine Death = 4/10 23.- As the Machine Rolls On = 6/10 24.- Common Enemy = 3/10 25.- Moral Crusade = 5/10 26.- Stigmatized = 7/10 27.- M.A.D. = 6/10 28.- Dragnet = 7/10 FINAL SCORE: 5.6/10

This is not music and people should feel bad about liking it. Good lord.

"itsonly33minutesitsonly33minutesitsonly33minutes" - this is probably one of the only albums that made me physically grimace at work. And the only album I've wanted to give -1 star. Even worse than john zorn.

Hahahaha ok what the fuck Let's say that just because an album was a precedent at its time doesn't make it necessarily good. I mean technically speaking the music and lyrics are a solid 2 out of 5 (or maybe 1) haha, and I like (generally speaking) metal music but there's a lot of other better options in terms of quality. I can understand why is here in the list, again it was a precedent for its decade but bro.. I just cant rate it for more than 2

What the fuck? I feel trolled, is this what cavemen listened to back in the early days? Whatever they were saying in this must have been caveman language because it certainly aint a language people speak today. The only good thing here was the instrumentation which was actually pretty good but whatever the fuck else was going on didn’t do much for me. Rating: Trash (Light ☆) Favorite Tracks: Dont really want to return to anything here ever. I lowkey deleted this shit from my library, I haven’t done that before so take that how you will. Also I accidentally played this during class on full volume, so that’s fun.

This is not music. This is garbage. Scum contains a bunch of random sounds masquerading as music, but it's not music. Grunting is not singing! Truly one of the hottest, stinkiest albums I've heard on this list. None of it was enjoyable, thought-provoking, creative, enticing, or any other positive attribute. Even though I love learning about music, I cannot say my life is enriched from learning what grindcore is.

The one thing I appreciate about Scum is that it’s only 33 mins and somehow 28 songs. Did I make it through those 33 mins? Absolutely not, it’s unlistenable. 2.1/10

Not for me. 1/5

Gave up on it.

not my type. over the top death metal with a lot of loud noise that doesn’t sound well thought out

Lasted about 5 songs in, this was not for me. I hate the vocal style and just couldn’t get into it.

crap

What I envision they use when they torture prisoners.

The only thing I enjoyed about this album is that most of the songs are very short. When I saw 28 tracks, I thought, “How am I going to get through this?” then I realized the whole album is only 33 minutes... Whew! It’s almost like they came up with a fun riff, played around with it, and boom, that’s a song, because they clearly put no effort into the vocals.

Not my choice in music. FYI. The song You Suffer is the shortest songs to date ( 14 February 2025)

The hell was that?

Frenetic Drop-D powerchords. Thunderous drumming. Lyrics delivered in a demonic shout. Repeat. 28 times. Awful.

my ears are bleeding

Straight garbage 0/5

I literally don't have anything to say apart from the fact I was offended by the idea I had to hear this before I died. If I could give it less than one, I would.

Rating: 2/10 There's some decent songs on here, about 2 or 3 and some other decent riffs. The problem is when 20+ minutes of this is constant blast beats and incomprehensible vocals. I love some extreme metal but this is just overbearing, I can respect what they are trying to go for but musically most of this is unlistenable.

Holy jesus lord have mercy and I ain't even religious. Nope nope nope.

This was the first album I actively wished I could turn off, but I had to see it through. I'm sure this album was groundbreaking or something, it's gotta be on this list for a reason, but God damn, that was difficult. Would absolutely not relisten.

Grungy dark metal - Pretty rough even for metal music - Screeching instrumentals and indistinguishable lyrics makes it hard to listen to, had difficulty finishing the album

Not appealing but appreciated trying something new

It finally happened, I found something worth 1 Star. Thank GOD this was only 33 minutes, and yet somehow it felt like it lasted forever. I will not entertain the concept of "music is a form of expressive art" to justify this album's existence. This genre only exists because drugs and child abuse do, and it's fanbase needs to seek therapy. I thought this would at least be listenable at the gym, instead I contemplated letting the barbell crush me to death so I wouldn't have to finish the album. There were times where the drums/guitar could've been redeemed with some coherent vocals, but instead we got a dog in a man's body who ruined every track with their inaudible barking. I would've rather listened to a clip of my parents fucking. At no point in your incoherent rambling were you even close to anything that could be considered a decent album. Everyone in this generator is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you 1 Star and may God have mercy on your soul.

Metal roaring that lands just on the wrong side of understandable for me. Id consider myself a bit of a metal head but grind core is just not my jam. Great fast and furious sounds but cant get past the vocals.

no im okay, thank you!

The cover had me half-expecting something like this... but it was actually worse than I anticipated. I don't know how to make this review sound anything else than an old person complaining about something, but so be it. I don't listen to grindcore so I don't have anything to compare this with... but boy this really is bad in every single aspect I can think of. It's just a wall of sound that hits you with no finesse whatsoever. The tracks are completely indistinguishable from each other to my ears. On top of that the mix is complete trash, everything sounds so incredibly bad. Perhaps some parts could've been salvaged if that wasn't the case, but probably not. In the end I didn't manage to sit through more than a couple of songs before turning it off. Hot candidate for worst album on this list, maybe even of all albums I've heard ever. Just like some others have said, the only realy joy I got out of this was reading some of the crazy reviews.

Was pretty sure this was going to be a 1 star and it is. For brief moments like in "Instinct of Survival" it feels like there is a good riff and feels like some old school thrash metal. Then the "singing" starts. Not only is the vocals abrasive but so are the drums. The mixing sounds horrible and compressed. 28 songs in 33 minutes is a feat. I'm glad it wasn't longer.

The best song on this album was the one that was 3 seconds long. And it was still a terrible 3 seconds.

Stop mumbling.

Soon as I saw this album cover, I said outloud, to nobody "oh christ what is this garbage". And yep. Absolute trash.

Didn’t like it

Made it half way through, but it was rough.

I like how positive this one is. /s

Erfreulich kurze Titel (5s) wechseln ab mit Geräuschen aus den Innereien des Teufels. Ich hatte fälschlicherweise angenommen, dass Blood in Reign von Slayer (die bekannte Patienten Band von Shutter Island) das Maß aller Dinge im Produzieren von unerträglichen Geräuschen sei. Da lag ich wohl daneben. Es liegen jetzt noch 630 Alben vor mir. Bin gespannt ob das noch getoppt werden kann.

1/10…extreme metal / grindcore 🤦‍♂️

Hard pass.

The worst thing I have ever heard. I couldn't even finish it.

I tried so hard to like this but idk it seemed so childish. Doesn't feel like punk. Fav Songs: Do I have to?

If I could rate this zero stars I would. Awful noise, the vocals are completely unintelligible (sounds like the noises I imagine a caveman would make if he was teleported into a live electric chair). It seems like the rest of the band's goal is to play as fast as possible with no regard for whether their instruments actually sound good together. If someone I knew told me this was their favourite album I'd hand them in to the police as an obvious wrong'un and wonder how my judgement was so poor as to have made this person an acquaintance

Couldn’t listen. There will need to be a compelling story in the book for me to revisit

Death metal das ist nichts für mich

bad

Really? This made it to 1001 Albums? This is like comparing cave art to the french impressionists, it cant be done. This group/album is a joke. Can anyone make out a word, any word in any piece. This would get zero stars if it were a choice.

It's a thing

I did not enjoy this album at all, it just sounds like an amalgamation of sounds, and the singer does not help at all as it just sounds like he is making random sounds and calling it a day.

-200

Feels like a parody made by somebody who hates the genre. It's what I would send a friend right as they're getting into metal to make sure they stop their pursuit. Just awful

The music was so bad that the one good thing going for them is how different this sounds than anything else on this list.

Nice message, bad music

Fuck man. As I write this I'm teetering between a 1-2 star (or a 2/10 or a 3/10 if you will). It's funny that I love punk music but never could get into metal and this album explains why. Many of the songs sound the exact same, and the vocalists ( I know there were more than one here) are awful. The same goddamn pitch, and I don't think I understood a single word said the entire time. It's not void of musical importance and everyone and a while the drums would come through with something interesting but then that goddamn voice would come back and I'd want to stab my eardrums out. You know what? 2/10 saved only by some cool song names and the fact that they kept most of the songs (and album) short, even if this was some of the longest 33 minutes of my life.

Not my vibe

Note what I hoped for when asking for some Metal albums :')

I kinda get it, music is hard to write and sometimes you just want to scream and bang on things. My personal least enjoyed genre is hardcore punk and this is like the metal equivalent to it. Nothing interesting here, probably inspired better bands but this just extremely easy riffs over blast beats in 1 min succession's.

Not particularly impressive or interesting. Noise. Torrent of shit, even. Maybe if I listened a few more times, I would get it, but it would probably break me.

Favorite Track: None

I might have been into this 25 years ago when I was 13. Best thing this has going for it is its brevity.

Not gonna listen allthat

I imagine he'll sounds like this, for some I'm sure it's exhilarating but not me

Nope. Not sure how the songs are marked as explicit lyrics when you can’t understand a single word of a song.

Um. No.

1- Stars (1/15)

Comically bad. Felt like some sort of parody, tempted to give it another star for making me laugh. I’m about 150 albums in and have now had 4 of the 5 lowest rated ones. Good to get the crap out the way early.

A horrible listening experience

This was bad.

Hard pass.

Too much for me.

No thank you

Too angry

Yea, this was awful. While like good hard rock/metal, this wasn’t it. Every guitar rig sounded the same, then we bang on the drums really hard and dude screams words (I think). I’m sure it is loved by someone out there. But not me.

Sounds like diarrhoea

"That's a no from me, dog." --Randy Jackson

Can't say this was for me tbh

Oh boy, more noise. It's a bit different, I'll say that. You know things are bad when you look forward to the silence between tracks. I'm pretty sure I didn't need to hear this before I reach the pearly gates.

Magnificent, emotionally intelligent, delicately crafted masterpiece. No, wait, my mistake, this is pointlessly shit. Outlived it's mildly comedic value before the first (mercifully short) track ended. Pointlessly shit.

Listen, I like metal as much as the next guy (if the next guy were indifferent to metal), but even I can appreciate the catastrophe of an album that is Napalm Death's "Scum". There's not much to comment on, but I'll do my best. Scum is 33 minutes, and 28 "songs", brimming with the beautiful voices of drunken ogres crying for battle over a loud, heavily distorted, extremely crash-heavy percussion line that can't quite decide whether it wants to sound mildly professional or like some kid in a garage that's angry at his mom for grounding him. Honestly though, the drums aren't terrible, nor is the guitar - though I wish it was easier to hear the melodies and harmonies in the latter. The music is severely lacking in any kind of melody for the ear to grab onto, and this makes it horrendously difficult to properly engage with in any meaningful way. The question "what was your favourite song?" could not honestly be answered, because they're all puddles of equally unmemorable, bland, testosterone-laden mucus (or other excretions). In that regard, the songwriting is some of the weakest I've ever experienced in all my years of listening. I know I've already slammed the singing, but god, it's so terrible. Inexcusably so. Any form of singing with any effort put into it would be better. Even a regular speaking voice would've made this infinitely more listenable (though I would still give the album a 1/5 rating for a plethora of other reasons). It sounds like somebody vomiting, kicking dogs, and drinking a smoothie made primarily of braised beef and malic acid - all rolled into one miserable trainwreck of a vocal in an instrumental lineup that already didn't show much promise. I tried to enjoy "Scum". I really did. But it's unequivocally a contender for the worst album on this list. 1/5 Key tracks: none

Screaming rhythmically and playing drums very fast does not result in music. Stopped after 5 tracks.

well ... why did anyone record this rubbish! No musical content, no vocals other than animal grunts, no variety ... in fact no content at all. Perhaps the worst album I've ever heard, every track sounds the same ... and they are all rubbish. Thats time I'll never get back again.

Holy hell that was an intense album. Very aggressive, very abrasive. It’s just not my thing. If it were 20 years ago I might have enjoyed this more, but it’s too much for me at my age (37). I honestly thought a lot of these songs were reprises or something, I found myself continuously checking to see if songs were repeating because they honestly blended together for me. Can’t give it a second star.

This music really spooked Peanut

This is a hard pass for me. I like a lot of the music, the guitars and drums, etc. I even like the hyper speed. But the singing style, sometimes described as puking into the mic,1 is unenjoyable in the extreme for me. I just can’t get past it. Full kudos for inventing grindcore though. https://open.substack.com/pub/richcain/p/project-1001-scum-by-napalm-death?r=4ztyq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

I thought I was starting to understand metal. I was wrong. I don’t get it at all. I’m Su’s it’s some sorta technical masterpiece but it’s all moot when it’s just noise. 1/5

This was horrible. Obviously that’s the point and I’m not the audience for this but my God. Lowest rated album on this entire list for a reason.

Borderline unlistenable

I can't think of how many worthy albums were left off this list in order to put this one on. 0/7

Death metal was never my thing unfortunately, I did try

Nicht mal ein Stern wert.

Not interested and every song started the same. 1star

one of the worst things I’ve ever listened to.

1. multinational - 0 2. zurvival - 1 3. kill - 0 4. zcum - 1 5. dream - 1 6. mindz - 0 7. zacrificed - 1 8. pouuer - 1.5 9. control - 1 10. born - 1 11. garbage - 0 12. zuffer - 0 13. life - 0 14. prizon - 0 15. return - 0 16. negative - 0 17. zucezz - 0 18. deceiver - 0 19. c z - 1 20. parazitez - 0 21. youth - 0 22. death - 0 23. machine - 0 24. enemy - 0 25. moral - 0 26. ztigma - 0 27. mad - 0 28. drag - 0

Lmao

Is this a bit?

Absolute garbage

This is dog 💩. Clearly not a 1001 album or a 5,001 album. Its just a show off of musicians just playing the same chord over and over again as fast as they can with a dog barking uninteligeble nonsense. This is a niche rock genere but very slim and small for a reason. 28 songs all about 45 seconds long. No one can withstand the accelerated pace of instrument playing for more than that amount. Still impressive speed but not impressive music. Death metal is NOT for me.

Not my thing at all.

Sweet Mary mother of pearl, what is this that I just listened to??? Certainly this band is unhappy with the state of the world. How do I know? It is not by being able to understand ANY of the vocal "performance". I had to actually look at the lyrics to follow what was going on. If only fraction of the energy put into this "critique" of society was put into problem solving, the world would be a better place. This album is does not make the world a better place unless it proved to be therapy for the band. This is not required listening. For anyone.

Everyone should listen to this. It’s a seminal album of its genre. Then everyone should give it one star, because it’s rubbish

Scream-o not for me

I don't mind metal, it's not my fav, but it's ok. That said, this wasn't good. The "singer" can't scream well. It's just... it sounds almost like funny animal sounds. I wouldn't have put this album on the list.

Hate to go with the crowd here, but this album is pretty terrible. Tuneless noise with limited variation, although it doesn't deserve its position near the bottom of this list - not while Korn and Ryan Adams draw breath anyway. Reading the history of Napalm Death, it seems they changed vocalists between this and later work (perhaps understandably). Unfortunately, that means I don't get to share my Barney anecdote here (think "Shady Lane")

ARRHHHH ARRHHH *fast music* DOUAARHH DOAURR

1,5

The album was sitting at a 1.5 and then it got worse. 1.

Wa wa wee wa, is grindcore not my thing!

big metal fan. FUCK death metal

and it's still better than The Beatles

This is definitely NOT my kind of music, Sorry

My wife says it’s not even worth commenting on. I think she’s right.

My friend who turned me on to this project calls the death metal voice "Cookie Monster Voice". It's on full display here. I'm not a metal fan, especially all the horror and death references but if you could take the unintelligible lyrics out of this, the music is pretty cool. Punk + Cookie Monster + Death = This. Really short songs make any album easier to listen to, even if it is twice as many songs. Having some trouble discerning one song from the next though. I cannot understand a single word of these lyrics. Some of these "songs" are just noise. The longer this album goes, the less I like it...not because the songs are worse, but because they are all undistinguishable from one another. I'm only guessing that the lyrics are supposed to be more coherent than The Cocteau Twins but they are equally unintelligible. This is broken up into 28 songs but could just as easily be one 33 minute song if they skipped the breaks between tracks. "Microsongs" are stupid, the song "You Suffer" is less than 2 seconds long, it's like one note and one word.

nah.

nope

well I hated that‼️‼️ i wish I could understand wtf they’re saying!!!????? Like? I looked at the lyrics and yeah so real I hate capitalism but also????? I hate this genre of music idk

Guttural and grotesque. Also deadly dull. After painstakingly close listening one was able to discern some English language lyrics: it was something to do with wanting pancakes rather intensely. One will round up to a 1 because they were likely LA's most punctual band.

Absolutely not.

Yep that’s a grindcore album. I wonder if this is what two robots having angry sex sounds like.

HARD...NO. I can't even put into words how out of my wheelhouse this is. Obviously this is for some people or it wouldn't be on here. But it's not for me.

Not a genre I am into.

Not for me.

not good 1 star

Fav: N/A Least Fav: Literally everything about this

I might actually agree with their socio-political points, but it’s rather hard to say. It would help if they just took a deep breath and tried again to articulate why they’re so upset. It’s almost like a toddler babbling about an injustice on the playground, which undermines the legitimacy of their complaints against multinational corporations and such. At least the tracks were kept to a tolerable length.

Yeah, nah.

Terrible. Could only handle the first few tracks of unintelligible screaming.

Not for me - sorry

-Wow this is definitely one of the albums of all time! -First of all I’m not gonna be one of those people who blindly shits on “hardcore” music or claims it isn’t music but… yeah. Get these men some lozenges! Props to making the world’s shortest song and some cool guitar/drum work though -Favorites are Instinct Of Survival and Scum

Awful

That was horrible.

absolutely not

I like heavy, but nah - this one is just not for me.

Not for me, I think you have to be in a certain mood, or of a certain mindset to listen to this... maybe back when it was released I would have listened more.. but not to my taste now.

Not a fan. As I was trying to get through the album , I kept thinking I am definitely not the target audience and was glad the songs were brief.

Firstly, I am not a metal fan but have heard things I like. Second, my words will fall utterly short and should multiplied by a factor of 100. Third, I am proud to say I listened to the whole thing apart from the many moments I needed to take the earphones off to wipe the blood off. This is pure noise of the highest and most extreme order. It is the sound of a 1000 trainwrecks crashing into exploding space shuttles that are filled with all manner of life earthly and otherwise. It is the soundtrack of a horror movie that should never ever be made. In its best moments it was disturbing but mostly it was painful and I am concerned it left me with a distinct craving for human flesh.

I've listened to a lot of albums in my life and I think this is the absolute worst one I've ever subjected myself to. Fair play.

I mean, at least it has the world's shortest song. Other than that, I hated it.

God I hated this album. I won’t say any more about it. It sucked

Shit. Didn't even listen cause reviews were so bad.

I suppose your hands and arms get fatigued after about a minute or so of thrashing. I've often wondered about albums that seemingly don't have a melodic (seemingly) flow to it, how the musicians can remember which song they're playing or are about to play. A real testament to their brilliance! Are sacrificed and polluted minds songs, or are they like pallet cleansers? Like when a musician needs to clear his head by playing just random stuff until he frees himself up? In seige of power, I thought they were going to end the song at the 1:40 mark... but not! Even after reading the lyrics, I couldn't make out what they lead singer was trying to say. Must be French.

1/5 Just because the noise that comes from the flat below mine from a noisy fan is considered noise.

I hated this album. Hated, hated, hated it. At least it was short. I guess the drums were okay. But good god, when the best songs are 45 seconds long and the singer doesn't sing, it's just not good.

0 stars I was unable to locate the 0 stars option.

Couldn’t understand one lyric. Didn’t enjoy but if I was into heavy heavy heavy long hair jamming metal I might enjoy.

Mossels, mossels, mossels... Grappig om dit extra zacht te draaien, dan wordt het een soort brullende kabouter op de achtergrond.

Wiki meldt dat het album uit twee delen bestaat. Voor beide delen werd een andere line-up neergezet. Alleen de drummer doet op beide delen mee. Ik neem aan omdat hij volgens wiki de enige muzikant was. Wiki laat nog even weten dat er in 1986 geen enkel label geïnteresseerd was. Tot zover de reclame. En eerlijk is eerlijk. Ze maken die beloftes toch waar. Alles is gericht op de snelle drums. Er is totaal geen aandacht voor andere muzikale aspecten, zoals overgangen. (O, wacht. Het zijn gewoon heel korte 'nummers'). En de zang is gewoon belachelijk. Het eerste deel is wat die 'zang' betreft het ergste. Eindoordeel: kinderachtig

We hebben weer een voorloper, maar dan van een genre dat op zichzelf sowieso al kut is. Ik was vooraf van plan om een rits bands op te zoeken, dat wel de moeite van het luisteren waard is. Maar dat zou weer een project worden ter grootte van mijn Taylor Swift project en daar kreeg ik ook al weinig mensen warm voor. Dus we houden het hier gewoon bij een recensie van dit kutalbum. Het geschreeuw is lachwekkend. De drums is gewoon zo snel mogelijk op die vellen rossen. Alleen de gitaar wil af en toe nog een beetje grooven, maar meestal doet het simpelweg mee met het armoedige minuutje geluid dat de meeste nummers ons bieden. Pak hem beet 30 nummers in even zoveel minuten, die ook nog eens allemaal op elkaar lijken. Ik heb al meer inspiratie in deze review gestopt, dan die gasten in hun 'muziek'.

You know, based on the album cover, I probably would agree with what they're singing about if I could just understand what they were saying.

I was intimated at first at the 28 tracks then realized it’s only 33min! I listened to it low. This is less the type of vocals I enjoy in metal/hard rock. It’s also monotonous- I can’t tell songs apart especially when some are so short. Siege of Power was the only one I could hear a semblance of musicality. Hard time getting through it.

Not a metal fan, but one thing I do like about this album is that it was short. Only 2 songs were longer than 2 minutes long, and it meant nothing I listened to became stale or boring. Didn't like it at all, mostly for the unintelligible and monotonous lyrics that all sound exactly the same, but I'm so thankful that the experience was over in under 35 minutes.

Nope. This is what a garbage truck on fire filled with drunk rats sounds like.

Sorry. This isn't for me.

I listened to my share of thrash back in the day in junior high - Metallica, Slayer, COC, DRI, Celtic Frost. Somehow I missed this one since it may have come right after. I rent a rehearsal room in a warehouse, and now I know the influence of what I hear ad naseum for the last 25 years where I live. My wife says zero stars but I’ll give it one for its influence :)

I like metal, but not like this. Not. Like. This.

Like somebody shitting in your ears

There were elements to the instrumentals that I liked, however the blast beats were annoying and the vocals often sounded like a dog growling and really brought this down for me. Better than most rap albums on this list though, so it gets a 1.5/5.

Jesus. In what universe is the noise being created here once of the 1001 albums you need to hear? I try hard not to yuck other's yums, but this is just garbage.

3/10

Mira, no.

How can anybody listen to this crap?

Are the seriously talented band not really angry that the vocalist ruins everything? 1.2

Nur laut reicht nicht! Mist!

The music sounds like a sound interference in my sound system. I have no interest in that. 1/5

Grindcore has come a long way

I'll acknowledge that this is music, although I don't have the ability to determine good from bad in this genre. All sounds the same, and I hope I never have to listen to this album again

Cookie Monster Death Metal. The weakest of all genres.

28 Titel? Etwas über 30 Minuten Spielzeit? Man gut. Länger hält man das ja nicht aus.

This was bloody awful. Take a song from their album and that’s what it is - Human Garbage. Just awful it’s funny. But not really, couldn’t listen again.

Sounds from the latest American Republican party brain summit. 28 songs - 33 minutes. This is technically an album of music in that I do hear instruments and the occasional assembling of said instruments into an attempt at cohesion. A very very loose attempt. 1/10 1 star

How is one supposed to score an album like this? It's just growling, screaming short noise bursts for 30 minutes. This was not a must-hear before I die. But now I know who Napalm Death are.

Just awful. 1/5

Обезьянья музыка. Крики и шум, но неинтересные

No thanks

Terrible.

This one gives me headache. If I want to hear speed-metal I pick a Metallica-album and if I want to hear someone upchuck than I go out and have a party.

The whole album is an absolute waste of trash. My rule is to get through all albums in this challenge from start to finish, but this was one of the worst albums I've had on this list so far (I've listened over 400 albums already). I kept the volume down as much as I could. I wish I could give this album a -5, instead of 1 which is way too high for this digusting noise.

Trash

Disappointed by the albums the author chose to represent metal.

Completely not my thing. I wish I could like this kind of music. But every fiber of my being rejects it. I can hear the talent in some of the playing. However this makes me angry. I get angrier the longer I listen. There’s no catharsis for me. This completely ruined my day. 1/5

Terrible. Terrible. Terrible. It's not even interesting from a historic or cultural perspective. I like almost all genres. Not this one.

Another heavy metal no for me.

These guys play really fast - and shittily.

Det här är inte musik.

Hate!

Ist das Musik? Oder kann das weg? Also ich kann mir das nicht anhören!

I like some metal but those vocals 🤮

evidemment c’est un 1 il n’y a aucune surprise a ce sujet

Not for me 1*

Great music, but definitely not my style of singing. I like to understand what is being sung and a melodic voice.

Not a big fan of vomit

Just uninteresting to me. It’s not even not bad but it’s to embracive to be considered background music. not for me

Tolerated this while playing Under Falling Skies. Pretty sure I'm going to lose. The first track starts, and I think to myself, "well, it's not my style, but it's not atrocious...at least I can understand the lyrics somewhat." Then track 2 destroyed any hope of this being listenable. It was a beautiful day out, so I had my windows open while listening to the album. I just had some new neighbors move in across the street and this is literally the first music to come out of my house. This couldn't give them a more inaccurate impression of who I am. It makes me laugh so hard that the next album on my list is Taylor Swift.

Decent Classic rock ablum

Eh

Not for me sounds like my stomach after a heavy curry.

Not for me and that’s ok

If you're training for a contest where you need to play as many repetitive notes as fast as you can or squawk indiscernibly in a yelling manner this is the band to go to for tips.

Not my thing. Pure grunge, death metal. Unlistenable

They got the title correct, best song on the album, albeit on a very low bar. In general a nightmare akin to turning the dial on the radio in search of something lighter only to find the apocalypse in motion with this as the pervasive broadcast.

No

not for me

Day 20 Sorry Metal fans, but it wasn't great. Not the biggest fan of metal (like, at all). So I think I have to give this a 1.

This is bad. After listening to the first 3 songs, you'll think "this is horrible, I just want to get through this crap". 20 minutes later, your on the last 10 songs and suddenly those first 3 songs seem like heaven in comparison to where this album goes. Like listening to the Tasmanian Tiger from The Looney Tunes sing whilst being tased by Elmer Fudd. Don't listen to this. It's rated this low for a reason.

Just noise. Not a heavy metal fan.

I turned it off in about 10 seconds.

Just bad

Napalm Death is a good name because listening to this feels like a fiery, painful, agonizingly long death.

No thank you please

.5 stars for authenticity .5 stars for musicianship Why was this on here

nema isusa....

Too noisy and annoying vocals

Noise. Nothing else. Should be 0.

28 canciones en 33 minutos que parecen 3 horas y 3 minutos. Ruido. Malos dentro del death metal. Un dolor. 1.

Inescuchable.

1/5 Sorry this is completely unlistenable, I tried 4-5 songs.