Scum

Zero stars, and I like metal

Meika þetta ekki sorry

Terrible, absolute rubbish. Would give it a 0 if allowed.

And now for something completely different: Grindcore Instinct of survival's vocals sound like a barking dog. I dig the high-energy instrumentals though. These tracks are all so short! I can see most people not enjoying this (including myself) because it's such a distinctive, inaccessible genre that will just sound like a bunch of noise to people. It's a 1-2* in the first few tracks for me. Sounds like Doom music. Yeah, kinda hate this one, giving me a migraine. 1*. I couldn't wait for it to be over.

Too boring.

So this is THE grindcore classic. Good to know.

I like metal, but this style of metal is ridiculous. It is overly repetitive and the lead vocals are absurd. No one needs to hear this album before they die. The fact they haven't broken 1,000,000 plays on most of their stuff says it all. No one likes this crap.

1.5/10

It's clear that these guys are very talented at playing their respective instruments. Some of the intros to these tracks are impressive. Such a shame they inevitably ruin each track by turning great riffs into generic indistinguishable noise. And then the singing, or rather the lack of singing, more like a weird yell/shout. There was not a single word or line I understood. How can you mumble something so bad while also screaming it. Not a single track here I would come back to, not even for the few seconds on most tracks which have great instrumentation. Such a shame and a waste of talent. Shit.

No, I'm not listening to this - I've heard this band before. It's unbelivably terrible. For 13 year old boys only.

Is this music?

Hier moet je van houden en dat doe ik niet

Well… You know, I could actually tell the difference between sides 1 and 2. I is definitely more metal and 2 more punk. I don’t understand the appeal of this vocal style, and what is the point of having sociopolitical lyrics if they are unintelligible? I made it all the way through, unlike the John Zorn offering. I sort of want to give this 1.5 for some reason. The reviews amuse me

The musical equivalent of finger painting. One thinks of what kids often say, when first encountering a Pollock or de Koonig or a Frankenthaler or Kraser at a modern art museum, that they could do better. In this case, the kids would be right.

No es mi rollo, portada chula pero yo soy mas de otros tipos de metal

Dios santo bendito. Canciones de un minuto que empiezan con la misma mierda, voz berreando y metal, y se acaba. Lo más notorio del álbum creo que ha sido que la voz se ha quedado berrando un poco más en una. Definitivamente no es mi tipo de música.

Wtf

Yeah, no.

Big time no

I like thrash music. But I pretty much stick to the "Big Four". Not a fan of this stuff.

Can’t pick a favorite - toss up between Divine Death and The Kill.

Trying too hard to be horrible. 1/5

The only consistent thing about this experience so far is that I have wanted to never listen to garbage the likes of this multiple times. So far my trash list also includes Slayer and Slipknot. Fucking atrocious stuff from all three. 0 out of 5 (so a forced 1 again).

I love metal but I couldn't stand this. Short songs where they are just banging on their instruments accompanied by a guttural scream. It's messy and just because they're trying to play as fast as humanly possible doesn't make it good.

Not my thing

Unlistenable is a mild way of putting it.

Dear diary: Song 9 out of 28, I thought when I started this album I might enjoy it. So far no enjoyment found. Dear diary: Song 18 out of 28, I think my eyes are going cross, and my brain hurts. Dear diary: I'm tired boss.

The review for "Shark Sandwich" was merely a two word review which simply read "Shit Sandwich".

This is just not my thing🤷‍♂️

rubbish

Not m cuppa char, not at all

I don’t understand screamer sorry

Just no

I guess I’m old now. Two songs in (maybe three?) and I gave up. There’s an old joke that goes ‘how can you tell one bluegrass tune from another? By the title.’ and it rings true with bluegrass, but this is some next level repetitive shit that can only be recognized as separate tracks by the silence in between. Seriously. I don’t care how legit angry or disaffected you are, the message is lost about 20” in. Just shit. I mean the longer I listened, I got more and more angry that this was released to the public, much less put on this list. Jesus fuck it’s horrible. Like I want to go find these dudes and the dude who put them on this list and slap them in their stupid faces. Just fuck you, for real. 0/5

Ça sonne comme ce que ma mère pense qu’est le métal, mais en vraiment pire. C’est quasiment une parodie du genre à quel point c’est du dégurgit sonore.

Shiiiiite

I don’t like this.

1/2

Bad.

British guy picked this to be on the 1001 albums list and not Bathory because of his Anglocentrism.

I'm a metal fan in general but I can't stand incoherent blast beats.

Ahhh this album. I've known about it for a long time and was wondering when I would get it. I had avoided listening to it until I got it to see what the fuss is about. Yeah I get it. If the vocals weren't here, it'd be at least somewhat tolerable. It isn't great, but at least there is some form of musicality. Then the vocals come in. At 33 minutes, at least it is short, but it still felt 15 minutes too long.

No album needs 28 songs, even if they are all short. Music was not my taste, although pretty apt for Halloween with the rage and scary factor waaaaaay up, did not finish the album had heard enough.

Life is just so full of moments where you aren't sure what to do. Like, I'm meeting my prospective employer for lunch. Or What about I'm opening a posh brunch restaurant? Or even the old conundrum.. What should our first dance be at the wedding? And at all these kinds of moments, the same nagging question comes up. What should I play?!? Well fret no more, because 'SCUM' is here for you. With such diverse sound influences such as drowning a family of racoons in a bathtub full of Drano all the way to automotive collisions, Napalm Death brings us something truly unrivaled. With the lyric and vocal sounds that really fit every one of life's most meaningful moments. The melodies and the consistent chords and drumming that won't upset the applecart so to speak. It would seem you can always count on Napalm Death to deliver that warm embrace you've always been looking for. That sound that so adroitly blends heroin, violence, sweat, and daddy issues so lushly.

Bass Drum of (Napalm) Death

Who knew that Animal from "The Muppets" inspired a whole genre? Napalm Death may have pioneered grindcore, but it's clear that they took their influence from the drumming force from Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem. However, there's no Dr. Teeth or Floyd Pepper to restrain Napalm Death, so it's all manic Animal all the time. Jim Henson and Frank Oz parodied the drummers of the 60s and 70s, and then these repressed Brits went and (unknowingly, we must assume) parodied the parody muppet? Congrats on your Guiness World Record for shortest song, Napalm Death. Congrats on surely destroying countless symbols and drumsticks. Congrats on quickly convincing me that grindcore sucks. So, if not Napalm Death, what death replacement? I offer instead... Death Cab for Cutie - "Transatlanticism" (2003) and "Plans" (2005) and "Narrow Stairs" (2008) Death Cab is another band with emo roots that expanded and transcended the genre, a genre that deserves representation on the 1001 well before grindcore. With the three album run from "Transatlanticism" to "Narrow Stairs," DCFC created a lush sonic landscape full of longing and intense passion. Ben Gibbard's plaintive vocals retained the emo earnestness, while Chris Walla's crystal clear guitar notes continuously propel songs just to the edge of bursting before pulling back. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

No

This is 100% most definitely an album everyone needs to hear. Frankly it wasn’t as horrible as I expected. The guitarist has some killer riffs. Instinct Of Survival sounds like a Master Of Puppets rip off, but good nonetheless. The guitarist is not the reason that everyone needs to hear this. That honor goes to trivia knowledge. Everyone must hear this album so that they can confidently answer: What is the worst abomination ever recorded on a music album? Ever. For all-time. Answer: the vocals on this album. Atrocious can’t begin to properly describe them.

Not a fan of metal. I like it live and can hear the talent but it’s not for me.

The vocals didn’t do it for me

Human Garbage, CS

Just not very good metal, drums are decent but that’s it Lots of short songs was interesting Didn’t enjoy listening, the vocals were just too off for me

28 songs in 33 mins was a plot twist - It definitely felt longer than 33 mins. The entire album was lots noise with grunts and yells. I don't think I'm angry enough to ever choose to play this.

Really not my cup of tea. Very offensive to my ears and could not finish.

Aggressively unpleasant to my ears and mind.

Napalm Death is a band that appeals only to certain kinds of people. That number does not include me.

This is a hot mess of guttural noises and thrashing drums and guitar work. How is this a must listen. There are significantly better metal albums than this. A 5 second song. That’s stupid. Give me the next album. 0.7/10

Schrumm schrumm, ratter ratter, brüll brüll…

Nope

The ‘Singing’ isn’t for me.

Clearly a genre that will not be appealing to everyone. Even the album sales would indicate that this has a narrower audience. It is loud, fast, heavy, and deliberately noisy. Much harder to listen to if it is not your thing, but there is definitely something going on with the LP. Learning more about the history of the band and the album was probably more interesting than listening to the tracks, however.

There's a song on this that lasts for 2 seconds, and to be fair, I didn't mind it. The rest was a bit more of a chore. I had to listen to Sufjan's Carrie and Lowell on volume 1 for an hour just to recover my delicate sensibilities.

Best for raging raves

Not even on the top 101,000 albums you need to listen to.

By far the worst of the worst. Utter garbage.

As the forefathers of grindcore, I understand how influential this album is. But man, I can’t listen to this, it’s too high on the spectrum of rage and chaos

Is this real?. Sounds like animal from the Muppets. Do people really pay to see this?

The dog left the room when this was on. Everyone’s a critic.

Side one is just bad but it’s kinda fun trying to figure out what they’re saying then side 2 is this weird nightmarish mess. 1/5

This might be the greatest album of this genre but I couldn’t get past the first song. TL/DR:Gross.

trash

just noise

Unlistenable

This is a thought provoking album, to say the least. All the songs bleed into each other whilst having the grace to let the listener know when it starts and when it ends. Scum is a success (?) in that it exists for the wonderment of the person who wants to ask and question about its merit. Surely there are songs there, of course and fragments of songs that could have been fleshed out and made into complete statements. The muffled mushmouth vocals acts as an instrument itself and that only comes when the listener decides to no longer decipher what the singer is trying to say. Whether it was meant to be enjoyed or vilified is up to you. After that, you can cleanse yourself with the scum that's depicted in the album cover. Or be amongst the litany of skulls.

Just… wow. I can’t imagine how the fuck this shit is only the fourth lowest rated album on this list, but I hope we don’t see the three lowest for a long, long time. The vocals, if they can be called that, sound how Cocaine Bear would sound if he could talk. I don’t know, I never saw the movie. Compared to Napalm Death, Iron Maiden belongs in Weenie Hut Jr’s and Metallica belongs in Super Weenie Hut Jr’s. These guys eat nails for breakfast without any milk, and they enjoy it. I won’t even bother reviewing individual songs (again, if they can be called that). The one redeeming quality of this album is the cover artwork and the I-Spy for multinational corporations among the skulls. I only listened to the first several tracks to spare both my eardrums and my Spotify algorithm. The first song I shuffled into out of this mess was “Dancing in the Moonlight” by King Harvest. That couldn’t be more of a 180, and that’s fine by me.

28 SONGS IS TOO LONG AN ALBUM

No, no thanks.

What the fuck is this? I have really no understanding how people like this. I sat through the record, and it's just 36 minutes wasted on something I will never, ever listen to again. Just terrible stuff. 1 out of 10

No. Just no. My ears are bleeding trying to get through this. Sounds like the trash my ex used to listen to. Would give it less than 1/5 if I could

Oh man. I knew I wasn't going to like this, and, surprise surprise, I didn't like it. After listening to the first half I didn't know how it could get worse, but the second half is even worse than the first. The vocalists on the second half do an even worse, yet more hilarious, job than those on the first half. The 1 second song was funny. I laughed a few times during the album, but I don't really want to listen to it again. Respect, but no thanks. My favourite song was You Suffer.

FFS

About 15 years ago or so, a friend of mine sent me a tape of his band that was them screaming into mikes and singing about different ways to get killed. Obviously, it was a joke. The first half of this album is trying to be serious, and so the joke lasts for about 5 minutes. Unfortunately, the album is longer than that, but fortunately not a huge amount. One song is supposedly in the world records for being the shortest. Some of the other songs could have taken the hint from that. One or two songs had a guitar solo, I think? But all I could hear was the drums banging away and the dirge of the bass. I imagine this is what our parents thought all metal was. Way to ruin it for the rest of us, ND.

Fuck off.

How can an album that has pretty impressive technical feats present be so tone deaf in the actual musical department? Every song isn't just flawed because of how it sounds, because that, at the end of the day, is preference, but every song sounds the exact same, and the short song lengths only highlights this, rather than makes it stand out. Yeah, I can't deny there were times where I liked where it was going, but then the dog-like singer barked into the microphone for twenty seconds and they just repeated that at different paces into the mix for a excruciating thirty minutes. I thought maybe I was going to give this a two about a quarter of the way through, because it was more funny than anything, but by the halfway point I was exhausted and tired. It wasn't funny, or impressive, or even interesting, it was just soul sucking. Perhaps that's what they wanted, but it sure as hell doesn't make it anything more than being edgy on the surface level while far more interesting musicians actually get famous off their metal. This is just noise. Awful, awful noise.

I probably could have died without hearing this album and been fine.

Going by personal preference alone, very unenjoyable.

Just not for me, dog.

I guess this album needs to be in this list but honestly, you have to wonder what somebody who loves this sound thinks of someone like The Carpenters?! Frankly this is just slightly worse than root canal

the absolute worst June 30 2023

Not at all for me.

28 1-2 minute very heavy death.metal tracks. Not my sound.

Dear 1001 guy, die in a fire. kthxbye

Þarf ég að hlusta? Ég byrjaði, gaf þessu 5 mínútur. Þetta er ógeð. Gæfi 0 ef ég gæti.

The album title says it all. The only positive it was only 33 minutes long. I listened to this first thing Monday morning to start the week off up to date, what a terrible thing to do. It made me angry and sad

eugh

Jesus christ I hate Grindcore

30th May 2023 Listened after we got back from Cinque Terre and out for pizza in the evening. This album was a very unpleasant experience.

The tempo stuff is fun but I can’t get past the screaming.

each song starts with about ≈5 seconds of interesting instrumental and then immediately gets ruined by gollum screaming over it. easily one of the worst albums i’ve listened to

First album to beat me. Got through them all until now.

Noise or Music?

Dit klinkt als het TikTok account van een woeste Samson (van Gert/Marie) in een soort alternatief universum waarin Samsons mandje is verplaatst van de huiskamer naar de kelder en zijn enige contact met mensen plaats vindt via extreme Telegram-kanalen. Ik waardeer op zich wel dat dit bestaat, maar ik kan er zelf niet goed naar luisteren. Vandaar 1 ster.

i know they mean well but this kind of thing was shit then and it’s shit now

This no-nonsense attitude is respectable for 5 minutes. Then the 'songs' are just annoying. I felt taken aback to one of these bad memories of my fellow puberty friends trying to be 'hard' because they listened to Napalm Death. In these days, I hope they see that this is just boring.

I made it through about 45 seconds of the first song and 15 seconds of the second. Just awful - a genre I've always hated.

What an innovative use of sound as torture! I get that this album might be important as an example or the pinnacle of a genre, but this genre is absolute trash.

A huge grind and effort to listen to

I think it's absolutely shit, I'm into a fair bit of metal but this nonsense is atrocious.

Wow. 28 tracks in 33 minutes, with one song lasting just 4 seconds (it's just a groan with a musical flourish behind it). It's an angry album, centred on the themes of corporate exploitation, plutocracy, and moral hypocrisy, all of which remain very relevant today, thirty five years later. Shame that we can't understand any of the lyrics, as they are all either drowned out by the racket going on behind it, totally unintelligible, or (as for 90%+ of the album) both. Not sure if the singer can't sing or won't sing, but it's entirely inexplicable to me why you'd choose to express yourself like that. Some of the guitar, particularly at the beginning of the longer songs, is good, and tricks you into thinking that, finally, they might have done an actual song. But no, it quickly turns back into thrashing noise. I'm not a proper metal man at the best of times, and this certainly isn't the best that metal has to offer (for me at least). With some metal, I get why other people like it, it just doesn't do it for me, but I can't comprehend how anyone would enjoy listening to this. 1/5 (site doesn't allow for 0s).

Was this really a collection of different songs? Supposedly the two sides had very different band members and feel. It sounded to me like one long audition for Monsters, Inc. After Multinational Corporations the Instinct of Survival kicked in and I went in for The Kill. I felt like Scum - Caught in a dream with Polluted Minds. I Sacrificed myself to the Siege of Power, relinquishing Control. Born on your knees you and I and we are all Human Garbage. You Suffer, I suffer, we all suffer this travesty of noise. If you find the music in this auditory assault then I salute you. Each to their own!

Who the fuck likes this!?

Gawd help us

Ho paura: 3 canzoni e si sentono dei chiari versi di cinghiali e poco altro. Che schifo.

Why

🎶жизнь слишком короткаааа🎶

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha No

I just can't.

I tried. I did listen to the whole thing but I just left with a headache.

Highlights: (throws dart, removes blindfold) "Parasites," "M.A.D.," "Dragnet" Nobody gets credit for inventing a genre that doesn't exist, and earlier '80s metal already cemented the coalescing whiplash tempo change, but maybe they get credit for being the earliest example of "blast beats" I can think of? (PS apparently just the most trenchant abusers of it). No points for popularizing cookie monster syrup burp screaming. Genuinely difficult to be beyond parody from start to finish, but they did it!

Not something for me then, still isn't now.

Couldn't do the entire album. Some good music but the screaming is hard to listen to for me

I don’t understand why this album is even on this list.

Listened Before? N Holy hell. This is a pile of trash. It's not that I don't understand extreme metal or the supposed "importance" of this album... but jesus... It's just not good. The few redeeming riffs available are quickly rendered annoying by their refusal to stay with a theme, and the vocals might as well be recorded by an animal, since I'm fairly sure they're not actual words. This goes for side a and b, even though they're "very different" according to analysts. People need to quit analyzing it... its trash. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: You Suffer... because it's 8 seconds long and super ironic

28 songs in 33 minutes, basically an average minute per noise … I mean per song

Wat een klotezooi zeg!

Dan kunnen die nummers nog zo kort zijn, ze klinken voor mij allemaal hetzelfde en allemaal echt niet om te harden. Binnen het genre waarschijnlijk baanbreken maar dit is een genre wat ik nooit zal begrijpen.

Ik probeer een ruimdenkend mens te zijn, maar blijkbaar zitten er toch grenzen aan m'n ruimdenkendheid. Omdat het niet anders kan, 1 ster.

I can understand that it’s influential, but not in the development of anything I’d listen to. Life’s too short. Half a point for the "socially conscious lyrics" makes 1.5.

I skimmed it. I really can’t take that guttural Lucifer bullshit. Painful.

You can't be serious

It’s possible I agree with many of the sentiments expressed on this album, but after one listen lack any desire for more. 33 minutes is already more than enough.

Honestly just fucking terrible. High tempo music is not always short, mercifully it was in this case. Just over half an hour, sadly just half an hour I won't get back. Not experimental or interesting enough to justify its unlistenability. Stupid stupid dirgey shite

I just don't get it to be honest. I know there is a market for this music but I am not part of it. BEST SONGS: - You Suffer, because I think its funny 1/5

I just...cant

2/10, pretty fucking difficult to listen to.

For a few glimmering moments I heard riffs that I enjoyed. 2/10

So… when do we get to the actual music? This sounded like the 4 Neanderthals from Night at the Museum escaped and found an instrument store, and one of them accidentally hit the record button on a recorder while they were discovering the instruments.

While I can accept this is a groundbreaking ablbum a a genre, it is "unlistenable".

There are so many albums in this genre that would have been much better picks. This is just insulting to those bands. Why would anyone think this is an album you just had to listen to before you died?!?!

C.S. was ok track. Really not my cup of tea at all. Yer man's voice must be fucked at this stage. Can appreciate they're talented musicians but it was just screaming and noise. Not pleasant. Glad it was short enough.

So we're just being punked now, right? Wow this is horrible. It makes those Linkin Park guys look like the Partridge Family singing "Come on get happy". It's like there was an 80s metal arms race to see how ridiculous it could actually get - hold my anis, Megadeath. About half way through, I actually started laughing - it was like an SNL skit. I'm guessing that's not what a band called "Napalm Death" was going for (and is it death by napalm? Or is it the death of napalm?). One upside - this album helps me understand the Satanic Panic of the 80s....zero out of zero stars, do not recommend.

Levyn parasta antia on se, että biisit ovat todella lyhyitä. 28 kappaletta 33min on kyllä maagisen kova suoritus. Suurinta osaa "biiseistä" ei kyllä olisi jaksanut kuunnella edes sitä reilua minuuttia. Soitossa ei ollut 95% ajasta mitään melodiaa ja tuntui kuin jokainen raiskasi omaa soitintaa kulloinkin itseään mielyttävällä tavalla. Helppo nostaa tämä levy paskuuden kuninkuusluokkaan!

Njaa, 33min levy oli vartissa kuunneltu. 3min ehkä siedettävää kuunneltavaa ja loput kuunnellusta ajasta rumpali hakkas kaikkee mahdollisimman nopee ja laulaja vaikuttaa vetäneen rynnäkkökännit joka biisiin. Täytyy olla aika tiloissa, et pystyy kuuntelee kokonaan.

Well it is a death metal album. I cannot understand a word they are saying. Somehow this album has 28 songs but the album is only 33 minutes long. That's the only highlight. The band really tightened it up but perhaps they needed to think about the songs some more. Perhaps they should have thought more in general. I could not tell the difference between the songs. This is not my cup of tea. Holy shit it is bad. If I could give a lower score I would. I skipped through songs.

An easy reminder that this isn't supposed to be the best 1001 albums ever ;) Look, in all honesty these guys are playing hard and fast, and that takes some skill. Anytime it seems like they are about to get into their rhythm and do something, they either abruptly end the song or they've got vocals that are basically impossible to understand or listen to. Does their talent give them a second star? Not today

No

1.5/5

Other than the guitar i couldn't really enjoy.

p578. 1987. 1 star. This is noise, not music. It sounds like acne ridden teenage boys finding their older brothers guitar and drum kit and pretending to be Motorhead, and doing it badly. It is loud, badly played, pointless, pretentious, annoying random shite. Avoid.

I mean the album cover pretty much personifies the music but holy hell I don't know how someone can listen to this. It's the musical equivalent of bashing my head against the wall. 2/10.

I couldn't make it through 33 minute album. Very loud, very noisy, mostly incomprehensible singing. Turbocharged drumming. 1 🌟

I'm down for heavy/experimental music but grindcore just isn't my brand I guess. The gutteral vocals don't work for me and the instrumentation feels a bit too focused on sheer technicality without consideration for how it actually sounds. I realize the irony of saying that as a big math rock fan too!

Une belle atrocité à la hauteur des attentes. Ces gars-là ont décidé de mélanger les deux pires styles de musique existant (le métal et le punk) pour en faire un cocktail absolument dégueulasse. Une note minimale bien méritée pour eux.

Really didn’t enjoy it. Not a fan of death metal, and the lack of singing really made this hard to enjoy

I usually have a high tolerance for most hardcore, as some of it has some substance and marginal musicianship to it, but this "grindcore" or extremely metal or whatever Napalm Death's genre is, really tests my patience. I guess this is what nightmares sound like with it's comical dog barks that pass for vocals and the speed and ridiculousness of the songs makes me wonder why I must hear this before I die? If I cranked this up, I'm sure the neighbors would call the cops and I might be induced to go on a killing spree.

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

Inescuchable

Han synge som ein karakter fra South Park som eg ikkje huske navnet på. Dette va bare bråkete greier.

A Painful listen, one I wouldn’t do again or recommend anyone else I know try. One positive is the songs are very short. I kinda get why it’s in the book from pioneering grindcore, but maybe some genres should have never been pioneered…

Every so often one comes across an album where it would seem that commercial success was not the goal. Every so often one comes across an album that looks for commercial success by not trying to be a commercial success. Napalm Death could be either one of those, and this review does not presume those as being their actual intentions. "Scum" is anti-establishment, it is full of social and political commentary, it is the epitome of the genre that seems to find an audience with angsty anarchists. Thing is, no one knows their political or social cues quite immediately at their shows, or from their music. Perhaps in a moment of actual intelligible speech, there is a hint of messaging, and for this genre that would be more than enough, stop the talking and start the rocking. A listener would have to find them, and often after the fact. Truth be told, "Scum" is a well executed metal album, if not the pioneer of aggressive drums, muddled electric, mumble-grumble-growl-shriek driven by an equally aggressive bass. It is as advertised, though, and for this audience the dirtier, the less polished, the less appeasing the better. The title track "Scum" starts that slow and rhythmic buildup, the type where the mosh pit is a gentle wave pool ebbing and flowing before suddenly going above 160bpm and obliterating any sense of safe swells. That is what the song does, it is easily the most 'fun' song on the album. This is a terrible album, and perhaps it was meant to be. Perhaps this is supposed to be the art in its most unrestrained presentation, and that is actually okay.

Oh boy. I hated this! It didn't even sound like songs! I think this is a subculture that I simply don't get.

Kinda heavy and atrocious, like It should be. Poorly produced.

Ah, a nice, relaxing album for a bucolic Sunday morning. Subtle and nuanced, with clear inspiration from traditional classical and gospel, and perhaps even some folk or country influence. Incredibly serene and beautiful. Seriously though, the best thing about this album is that it's only 33 minutes long. I actually think I could have died without hearing this album, but now I have heard it so we’ll never know. 1 star.

Poor production. First half is better than the 2nd...

The Spotify description refers to the band's "eye opening sociopolitical lyrical commentary". Can't say I was able to piece together a single sentence though. I try to find something to like in all music and, whilst I did enjoy the absolute hammering of the bass drum, I struggled with this one. It started to give me heart palpitations about three-quarters into it. I'm giving 1 star as it's not for me. Not convinced real thrash metal fans truly like this music either - they're surely just pretending so that they can be part of the scene, no?

Algo fallo en Spotify y cuando le daba play escuchaba puro ruido bien culero, una estrella por fallas técnicas.

Nope. Not a fan. Some of the music kind of rocks, but the vocals are just awful.

Grindcore definitely isn't my thing.

Pojat löys rumpusetin ja pisti epileptikon kyytiin 1/5

Blast-beat growl fest. Fast, loud, and poor sound quality. I can see influences from this on bands like System of a Down, but this is pretty close to unlistenable.

I ACTUALLY MADE IT THROUGH LISTENING TO THIS. I cannot for the life of me figure out when one is meant to listen to this album. Running errands? In concert at a gig or festival? Doing a bitch of a workout? But on some level I'm glad there exists some art (some may argue otherwise) that I don't think I will fully understand. Big up Napalm Death for creating just pure rage in sound/music. Props.

NEJ.

I actually like the music. God knows what the singing is though. First song sounds like he is barking like a dog.

Death metal making my ears bleed

I dont think napalm death will ever be something i like. Blastbeat isnt "lit"

As soon as there were parts of a song I began to enjoy they ruined it with inaudible vocals and nightmarish riffs great if you wanna terrify children not so great for pretty much anything else .5/5

Well, I don't really like death metal. The fucking weird mouth noises and repetitive guitar riffs didn't sound good to me. Some of the drumming is nuts and I have no idea how the album would be played live with that kind of drumming, but it did make the album that much better for me. Favorite songs Caught..In A Dream and M.A.D. 2/8.

Literally never listened to anything like this in my life. The vocals I cannot take seriously, but musically it is interesting.

grindcore is a genre that is just not for my sensibilities, made it 127 seconds before confirming this album isn't for me, pass.