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| 4.0 excellent | vanderb0b | October 20th 10 |
...but why?
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| 2.5 average | hipnotoad | January 22nd 10 |
Seriously one of the most overrated albums I've ever heard.
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| 4.5 superb | Slaytan | November 2nd 08 |
Napalm Death's Scum: the blueprint for grindcore as it exists today. Armed with only some low production value and some piss and vinegar, this album is guaranteed to be either hit or miss. Musically the pace is chaotic and quick throughout, and vocally it's not much different. You won't be able to understand a word of it, but it's irrelevant in long run; this album pioneered grindcore. You should check this album out only if you're into Napalm Death, grindcore, or aggressive low-fi chaos.
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| 3.0 good | Gary STAFF | February 8th 22 |
Decent. I think that says a lot if I say "You Suffer" is the most essential part of it.
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| 4.0 excellent | Type2Diabeetus | November 11th 11 |
One of the most influential if not THE most influential and revolutionary hardcore/metal albums ever created.
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| 4.5 superb | zombieAltah | February 7th 09 |
Awesome album and still a classic of Grindcore. And I just fell in love with the album cover.
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| 2.5 average | Santa Koopa | July 26th 22 |
WE DEATH GRINDIN' BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYBEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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| 1.0 awful | RoanCadwallader | April 17th 21 |
How the fuck is this a classic? This whole style just sucks.
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| 3.0 good | Michael C. Davis | September 21st 20 |
Band began with Harmony Corruption. Napalm Death without Barney just isn't Napalm Death.
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| 3.0 good | Eminor | December 5th 16 |
Napalm Death is the only grindcore band I like. The only thing I dislike about this album is that many of the songs are short and sound the same, which I realize is the point of the album. It just makes it less fun to listen to if it comes up on say, a spotify shuffle.
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| 4.5 superb | EasterInTheBatcave | June 14th 16 |
On influence alone, Scum deserves a 5. This is the album that invented grindcore and popularized the blast beat, and without it the metal genre would look very different than it does today. Further testament to Scum's strength is that, despite being nearly twenty years old, its songs don't feel dated. Of course, the production is pretty bad, but that comes with the territory-- this album was recorded for almost nothing-- and, actually, the lo-fi-ness works for the vibe of the songs. (I wish the guitars were louder, though.) Scum is one of the most influential metal records of all time, and therefore a must-listen album.
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| 4.0 excellent | Alabaster Jones | January 2nd 16 |
In parallel congruence with Carcass and Repulsion, Napalm Death are seen as one of the founding bands of grindcore. The skeleton of the genre is definitely there: breakneck-fast drumming, very short songs, blistering riffs with a nice punk edge to them, and shouty, ravenous vocals. Many great musicians played on both sides of the record, which were recorded at different times with different people, and even included a couple of very influential men in the likes of Justin Broadrick and Bill Steer. The production is raw, as expected, but changes on the differing sides. Side one's kind of makes the band sound like a much faster version of bands like Amebix, especially with regard to the drum tones, while side two's production is more bassy and murky. Add the notion that vocalist Lee Dorrian is much more varied than Nik Bullen, and you definitely have a tale of two halves here. Still, the album does great things on both sides, and solidified Napalm Death as one of the godfathers of grind.
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| 3.0 good | Progamuffin | June 13th 15 |
First half: decent stuff brought down by the drum sound. When Harris goes into blast beat overdrive, you can only hear someone sounding constipated and Harris beating the shit out of the drums.rSecond half: the best half of this album and a very good half. One of my favorite production jobs ever. Of course, the music sounds angry too.
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| 3.5 great | BRAman22 | September 23rd 14 |
This is some seriously weird shit. Some pretty good music that would probably sound better if played slower. Nonetheless, a decent grind album.
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| 0.0 | | August 14th 14 |
Liverpool's own Napalm Death didn't just create a grindcore CD in the form of their debut album, Scum; they managed to give birth to a chaotic record filled to the brim with incomprehensibly amazing, hardcore-esque shouts, blast beats, thrash-oriented riffs, and short (albeit mind-blowing) tracks. This is one album held responsible for the foundation of the grindcore subgenre and - with its undertones - shall continue to go down in history as a landmark effort. Napalm Death, to summarize, begs the question: "You suffer... but why?"
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| 0.0 | Lambda | June 17th 14 |
★★ I formerly had a soundoff for this album, but Sputnik doesn't let you delete soundoffs, so I
replaced the soundoff with this. Check out my new account, EasterInTheBatcave, for all of my
soundoffs and reviews, including the one for this album. ★★
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| 0.0 | Comatorium. | June 7th 09 |
The fathers of grindcore's essential release continues to be relevant to this day, and is an essential listen for fans of modern grind. Truly a classic.
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