Although the album’s 28 tracks were recorded in two sessions eight months apart (with different lineups, to boot: guitarist Justin Broadrick left after the first to form Head of David and, later, Godflesh he was replaced by Bill Steer of Carcass), the songs are indistinguishable to all but the most carefully attuned ears Lee Dorrian’s larynx-shredding nightmares of a contaminated world explode on impact with the sonic holocaust. Crass’ influence is clear in both Scum‘s structureless metal-core blur and its cover art. This blurred sonic cesspool just might be the death of traditional music: in its purest form, grind’s five-to-90-second blasts of time-defying beats, hyper-distorted guitars and unintelligible growls and shrieks contain no verses, choruses or anything nice at all, just exploding bites of encapsulated hate and rage.įormed around 1981, vaguely in line with the British hardcore and Crass-related tribes, Napalm Death made its vinyl debut on the third Bullshit Detector sampler. Just as they missed the boat with rap, the champions of “alternative” music refused to acknowledge a new alternative several years later when it arose from the English hinterlands in the form of grindcore, a virulent mutation of the most extreme elements of hardcore, metal and industrial.
Fear, Emptiness, Despair (Earache/Columbia) 1994.Utopia Banished (Earache/Relativity) 1992 (Earache) 1996.The World Keeps Turning EP (Earache) 1992.The Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit/Dutch East India Trading) 1991.Mass Appeal Madness EP (Earache/Relativity) 1991.
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