NAPALM DEATH - Scum LP (clear vinyl)

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As a rallying call for what seemed like millions of bands to follow, not to mention the launching point for the varying careers of Justin Broadrick, Nick Bullen, Mitch Harris, Lee Dorrian, and Bill Steer, Scum deserves its reputation. It's also fun to listen to -- a strange word to use, but no doubt about it, the album has its own brand of rock & roll kicks taken to an almost ridiculous extreme. Split between the original lineup with Broadrick and Bullen, and the next one with Dorrian, Steer, and Jim Whitely, Scum is a portrait of a place, time, and state of mind. Opener "Multinational Corporations" is the deep breath taken before the plunge: skittering cymbals, low-key feedback squalls, Bullen's rasped hatred -- and then all hell breaks loose. The riffs by both the Broadrick/Bullen and Steer/Whitely teams use hyperconcentrated Black Sabbath-via-Motörhead-and-Metallica approaches as starting points, but the moorings are cut loose when everyone concentrates on nothing but speed itself. The combination of hyperspeed drums, crazed but still just-clear-enough guitar and bass blurs, and utterly unintelligible vocals take the "loud hard fast" rule to a logical extreme that the band's followers could only try to equal, but never better. Interspersed throughout all of this on various songs are more obviously deliberate constructions -- parts of the title track, say, or the focused chug-and-stomp start of "Siege of Power" -- that act as just enough pacing for the rampages elsewhere, where unrelenting, intense sound becomes its own part of weird ambient music, textures above all else. It's little surprise the free jazz/noise wing latched onto Scum as much as wound-up-as-hell headbangers did worldwide. That practically no song survives past two minutes -- much less one -- is all part of the brusque do-the-job-and-do-no-more appeal. The most legendary number as a result: "You Suffer," running a mere two seconds.
-Ned Raggett

No self-respecting fast music fan should be without this LP. -Jensen

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