Band:	Napalm Death
Album:	Scum
Style:	Grindcore
Release date:	July 01, 1987
A review by:	Herzebeth

01. Multinational Corporations
02. Instinct Of Survival
03. The Kill
04. Scum
05. Caught In A Dream
06. Polluted Minds
07. Sacrificed
08. Stage Of Power
09. Control
10. Born On Your Knees
11. Human Garbage
12. You Suffer
13. Life?
14. Prison Without Walls
15. Point Of No Return
16. Negative Approach
17. Success?
18. Deceiver
19. C.S.
20. Parasites
21. Pseudo Youth
22. Divine Death
23. As The Machine Rolls On
24. Common Enemy
25. Moral Crusade
26. Stigmatized
27. M.A.D.
28. Dragnet

Classic Monster of Earache Records, Highly Recommended

1987 was the year of Grindcore according to some experts; bands like Agathocles, Extreme Noise Terror and Carcass were haunting the scene with some Demos and EP's by then; but there was a band that was already smothering some ears with a Full Length CD called simply "Scum", a band so tense and so ahead of its time that scared the living *Bleep Noise* out of your parents, and even the people that called themselves "Extreme" in those days had to breathe for a second and say "What the Hell was that?". The name ladies and gentleman, is Napalm Death .

I won't argue about this being the first Grindcore album ever released, I really don't care you know? The true fact is that "Scum" was the first album that ever shocked so many people back in the old days, and that reality is bigger than anything else. The whole album is chaotic as only hell can be; the lyrical content is, to this day, one of the edgiest opuses in the music business and finally even the artwork is powerful for crying out loud. How can you not love an album that screams against everything that you hate, that spits blood on everyone that you despise and that talks about everything that you are prohibited to speak?

Yes the production is very raw, the music is very brutal and the songs have the power to make your eardrums burst after hearing them; who cares about those things when you have something that goes beyond rebellion stamped in strong chords and shivering screams? I can only imagine what the 80's people thought when they heard the bizarreness of "You Suffer", the aggression of "Pseudo Youth" or the noisy structures of "Divine Death".

This release is actually a hard pill to swallow, the weak ones won't understand its greatness and they will turn their heads in disgust?but the ones who enjoy, understand and know all about their attitude will be praising this album everyday for the rest of their lives.

Best Tracks: Every Song Is Great