Scum

*sigh* I mean, there are some parts of the 🎵 music 🎵 that are good. Some. But I just can't on the vocals. I already hate growling style but this is just too much. I knew what I was getting into and yet still... That's two albums in two weeks that have really tried the commitment I made to actually listen to these all the way through.

SHIT, ABSOLUTE SHIT

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.

Couldn’t finish it. I’m not a fan at all of this type of heavy music.

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

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

Brutal as fuck, and bold as hell. Brings to mind the sound effect for a car engine of a PS2 racing game revving mixed with a barking street dog. In a good way.

SCUM! not nearly as bad as i expected.

disgusting

Nope.

Any band that opens an album with a song called Multinational Corporations can't be all bad. Unfortunately, the entirety of the song is just a squall of admittedly fun noise. The next few songs let us know what we're in for. Napalm Death is all about Black Sabbath inspired metal riffing blanketed in distortion accompanied by unintelligible growling, often played weally weally fwast. Now, some of the riffing is actually pretty cool, but I would enjoy it a lot more if I understood the lyrics. As it is, the vocals are nothing more than pure aggression and rage, and I don't find that very interesting. The songs are very short, which is a good thing for this sort of speed metal. It's kind of a shame. There's unrealized potential here. If the songs were just a little bit better, with less incoherent thrashing, and the vocals were a little more like Husker Du (screaming, but intelligible), Napalm Death would be a blast. As it is, I can't recommend this.

NEJ.

I'm not listening to this trash. I tried, for a minute or two, but I haven't done anything wrong to deserve such punishment. This album was released around the time I was getting into harder music, exploring metal and hard rock. It made me question everything, maybe I should just stick to the crap pop stuff. I'm sure it's only on this list as a reminder that other music can be really good.

Brings back vivid memories of when me and my mate Ray went on a trip to Dresden. We met this rotund goth in a bar, head to toe with tattoos and piercings, real filth and after a while took her into the disabled bogs for a spit roast. We were both pumping away in her with Napalm Death on in the background and her wailing "MEIN GOTT" at the top of her lungs. I remember spaffing all over her back just as Siege of Power kicked in. As i shoot over her, she takes Ray's cock out of her gob and says "do you want fries with that?" in a faux American accent. Anyway, we go outside and there's this gammy little geezer in a wheelchair sitting there furious, giving me daggers, because he's had to wait so long, so I lean into him and I go "I hope you have as much fun in there as we just did you little cunt".

At the time of writing this, Scum by Napalm Death is the lowest-rated album on this website. Which makes sense, in a way, because Grindcore is inherently inaccessible. The genre goes out of it's way to be heavier, faster, and more brutal than hardcore punk in every way, and Napalm Death is the exemplification of this. Yet, the production is so purposeful in what I hear. Riffs are distinguishable and blast beats keep time while the singer roars lyrics of anger and nihilism. It sounds heavy and loud without being messy. Maybe a little messy for stylistic purposes, but overall it's actually pretty good! Even fans of power metal should have a good grasp of this album. Songs are a lot shorter here so nothing overstays its welcome. You get some heavy riffage, maybe a verse-chorus, and then you're on to the next song. It plays pretty well. I'll discuss the weaker aspects of the album now. One of the downsides of the shorter songs is that they tend to come and go with little lasting power. You'd be hard pressed to match a song to a riff that you remember, so repeat listens are kind of needed for full absorption. Vocal also lose a little impact as their mostly unintelligible. They contribute more to vibes than anything. This album also features the renowned "shortest song on record" with "You Suffer" clocking in at 4 seconds. It's pretty good; blink and you'll miss it! It's worth noting that After "You Suffer", you get to side b of the album which actually has a differwent lineup. With the except of drummer Mick Harris, you get a whole new band on the back half. With this comes a whole new sound, leaning into a more guttural tone than the edgy tone of the first half. Either way you cut it, you need to be a certain kind of person to like Napalm Death, and I liked em! I'm going to point to the metalheads and ask those who didn't like it to try again. I think it's worthy of a spot of the list! God bless.

Erm... Worst album so far by a fair few acres 1*

Utter cack

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

Not nearly as good as I expected. Which was bad.

What a bunch of cowardly pussies these lads are. Trying to act all tough, but we know you just crave your mother's loving teet.

The sound of a flight of stairs falling down a flight of stairs, in a good way.

Death metal making my ears bleed

Grindcore? Nah.

omg

Some really groovy stuff honestly. A bit of a slog, maybe cut out a few tracks. If you need this vibe, you got it fully here.

Its early grindcore! I think its pretty alright 4 songs in. I wouldn't want to be at the show, but the album is a great showcase of the emergence of grindcore. I think a lot of people bitch and moan about how you cant hear what they are saying on most of the album but no one talks about how it makes them feel. Thats grindcore, an explosion of rage. Seige Of Power is a great track. Huge sonic difference A side and B side. A side is like a mad max car, B side is a lawnmower covered in underwater chainsaws. Dragnet is a good closer.

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

Ostres, a mi el grindcore m'atabala. No l'he pogut escoltar sencer. No és lo meu...

Funny

Dios mío cómo te podía gustar el grindcore...

A tough one to listen to while cooking dinner with the fam, so had a late night earphone session, kinda enjoyed the music at times... mostly the A side stuff with the earlier band lineup, the singer is clearly after adamant help from the Cookie Monster. A brave genre to introduce to the world in the 80s. How am I going to sleep after this?

Je ne vois pas le but de cette album. Musique difficille a digerer meme si j’aime le metal. Ca se rapproche de rien vraiment que j’aime. J’imagine qu’il faut l’avoir ecouter dans sa vie pour voir ce qu’est ce style... 1*

Mierda inaudible

I'm not a metal fan at all, but I dug this album. The vocals didn't do it for me (it sounds like random mumbling and grumbling), but the drumming and guitar is clearly expert and sounds fantastic. I don't think it's an album I'm coming back to again, but it's something I'm glad I heard once.

Metally. Has the silly you suffer on it.

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

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

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

Wondering when I’d get this. Lives up to its worst rating. Holy bad.

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

gives metal a bad name

Pretty damn fun to listen to, but probably never again for me. I do really enjoy hearing these "proto-" and influential records of genres I'm unfamiliar that this list is littered with. This is one of the main reasons I'm here. Even if I'm giving it a lower rating, I'm still glad I heard this than yet another standard sounding 60's pop album this list is chock full of.

This album is a reason why metal gets a bad reputation. I say this as someone who likes metal.

I really enjoy acoustic folk music like this. I don’t think this deserves to be on the bottom of the list. There are many others I’ve heard that would be more appropriate. In fact, this album actually pretty fucking awesome to listen to in a way. It’s sonically dense. It’s hard as fuck. It’s pretty unique. I will revisit this one when the mood hits. There are a lot of days where this is exactly what you need.

Snel opgegeven

Repetitive to say, but I can respect what this is about and how well that's done here, but it's not for me. I couldn't tell the supposedly very different tow sides apart. Tremendous cover art, and I do hate multinational corporations.

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

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

Love me some classic metal

GROARRRRR! 33 Minuten kurzweiliger Schönklang. Eines kann man diesen Machwerk nicht nachsagen: Längen. Ich fühlte mich prächtig unterhalten. Wirklich wun-der-schön! 4 Sterne? Na, komm, sagen wir 3.

Not my type of music at all. Can normally find something within it I like, but not in this case.

Good puck rock

тоже классика, своего рода, на 4 у меня точно вытягивает

Not bad, but definitely not my thing.

nope. not for me

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.

Really enjoyed this, though clearly it won't be to everyone's taste. Brutal, powerful, and its legacy and influence are completely understandable. Not something I'm likely to make an effort to listen to often, but happy to have it on in the background.

this is terrible

Fuck that noise.

I’m a metal head and this is one of the worst things I’ve ever listened to.

Gritty thrashy death metal. A fun listen. I didn’t understand a single lyric.

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

Hardcore metal, grindcore, uden melodi, voldsomt

I tend to associate the more extreme forms of metal with a vocalist shrieking and making guttural noises while a guitarist and drummer produce a wall of atonal noise, like if Merzbow used acoustic instruments. For the first three minutes or so of this album, these guys proved me wrong, but for the rest of it they mostly proved me right. Best song: Instinct of Survival, because it had an actual melody and came before I tuned everything out.

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

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

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

Horrific music.

Rather silly, didn't do anything for me