Re-press on black vinyl with blue and black cover artwork

As a rallying call for what seemed like millions of bands tofollow, not to mention the launching point for the varying careersof Justin Broadrick, Nick Bullen, Mitch Harris, Lee Dorrian, andBill Steer, Scum deserves its reputation alone. But it’s also funto listen to — a strange word to use, but no doubt about it, thealbum has its own brand of rock & roll kicks taken to an almostridiculous extreme. Split between the original lineup, withBroadrick and Bullen, and the next one, with Dorrian, Steer, andShane Embury, Scum is a portrait of a place, time, and state ofmind. Opener “Multinational Corporations” is the deep breath takenbefore the plunge: skittering cymbals, low-key feedback squalls,Bullen’s rasped hatred — and then all hell breaks loose. The riffsby both the Broadrick/Bullen and Steer/Embury teams usehyperconcentrated Black Sabbath-via-Motörhead-and-Metallicaapproaches as starting points, but the moorings are cut loose wheneveryone concentrates on nothing but speed itself. The combinationof hyperspeed drums, crazed but still just clear enough guitar andbass blurs, and utterly unintelligible vocals takes the “loud hardfast rules” conclusion to a logical extreme that the band’sfollowers could only try to equal instead of better. Interspersedthroughout all this on various songs are more obviously deliberateconstructions — parts of the title track, say, or the focusedchug-and-stomp start of “Siege of Power.” They act as just enoughpacing for the rampages elsewhere, where unrelenting, intense soundbecomes its own part of weird ambient music, textures above allelse. It’s little surprise the free jazz/noise wing latched ontoScum as much as wound-up-as-hell headbangers did worldwide. Thatpractically no song survives past two minutes — much less one — isall part of brusque do-the-job-and-do-no-more appeal. The mostlegendary number as a result: “You Suffer (But Why?),” running at amere two seconds.

Track listing:
1. Multinational Corporations
2. Instinct Of Survival
3. The Kill
4. Scum
5. Caught In A Dream
6. Polluted Minds
7. Sacrificed
8. Stage Of Power
9. 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

Condition cover: nm

Condition vinyl: nm

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