NAPALM DEATH · Scum | GREEN LP

Green vinyl.

Background information about 'Scum'

When Napalm Death unleashed "Scum" upon the world in 1987, they didn't just release an album – they detonated a sonic bomb that would reshape extreme music forever. This isn't just grindcore's genesis; it's the moment when punk's fury collided with metal's brutality to birth something entirely unprecedented. From the microsecond blast of "You Suffer" (literally the world's shortest song at 1.316 seconds) to the crushing weight of "Siege Of Power", every track here is a manifesto of pure, unfiltered rage against societal decay.

What makes "Scum" so revolutionary isn't just its breakneck speed or Lee Dorrian's guttural roars – it's the sheer audacity of its vision. Napalm Death took the DIY ethos of hardcore punk and weaponized it with downtuned guitars and blast beats that hit like machine gun fire. Tracks like "Multinational Corporations" and "Control" aren't just songs; they're two-minute assaults on capitalism and conformity that pack more political punch than most bands manage in entire albums. The production might be raw, but that's precisely the point – this is music stripped of pretense and polished straight to the bone.

For fans of:
Extreme Noise Terror, Terrorizer, Repulsion, Carcass, Brutal Truth

Track listing

A1. Multinational Corporations
A2. Instinct Of Survival
A3. The Kill
A4. Scum
A5. Caught....In A Dream
A6. Polluted Minds
A7. Sacrificed
A8. Siege Of Power
A9. Control
A10. Born On Your Knees
A11. Human Garbage
A12. You Suffer
B1. Life?
B2. Prison Without Walls
B3. Point Of No Return
B4. Negative Approach
B5. Success?
B6. Deceiver
B7. C.S.
B8. Parasites
B9. Pseudo Youth
B10. Divine Death
B11. As The Machine Rolls On
B12. Common Enemy
B13. Moral Crusade
B14. Stigmatized
B15. M.A.D.
B16. Dragnet

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