NAPALM DEATH Scum 1987 UK EARACHE ORANGE SLEEVE w/INSERT Nr MINT

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NAPALM DEATH Scum 1987 UK EARACHE ORANGE SLEEVE w/INSERT Nr MINT

SUPERB UNPLAYED COPY OF THEIR LEGENDARY DEBUT

NAPALM DEATH
Scum

UK EARACHE (MOSH 3) 1989 SECOND PRESSING (ORANGE SLEEVE) OF THEIR 1987 DEBUT LP
twenty eight songs of intense manic and savagely brutal hardcore-thrash
GREAT COPY - LOOKS UNPLAYED

MATRIX & ETCHINGS: MOSH 3 A1 MPO PENTHOUSE WHIRLWIND HOLOCAST / MOSH 3 B1 MPO BUB IS GOD

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 alone. But 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 Shane Embury, 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/Embury 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 takes the "loud hard fast rules" conclusion to a logical extreme that the band's followers could only try to equal instead of better.
Interspersed throughout all 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." They 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 brusque do-the-job-and-do-no-more appeal. The most legendary number as a result: "You Suffer (But Why?)," running at a mere two seconds

Side 1:
Multinational Corporations
Instinct Of Survival
The Kill
Scum
Caught....In A Dream
Polluted Minds
Sacrificed
Siege Of Power
Control
Born On Your Knees
Human Garbage
You Suffer

Side 2:
Life?
Prison Without Walls
Point Of No Return
Negative Approach
Success?
Deceiver
C.S.
Parasites
Pseudo Youth
Divine Death
As The Machine Rolls On
Common Enemy
Moral Crusade
Stigmatized
M.A.D.
Dragnet

LABELS: MINT
An immaculate pair of labels - no spindle traces or any signs the record has ever been played
VINYL Visual: EXCELLENT+
Both surfaces shine like-new with nothing but a few light and harmless marks
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
Apart from an odd tick between some of the tracks playback is flawless
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT+
The Orange cover has light wear to the corners but is otherwise clean and unmarked
INSERT: NEAR MINT
Printed on both sides of thin matt paper the insert is like-new with just a tiny knock to one bottom corner
INNER SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
The inner dates this issue as '1/89' (January 1989) and I have no doubt it's the original - this is not the first pressing - as sited by practically every other similar copy currently on sale - but the second, the first having a Yellow cover without the sticker

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INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £17.00 (International Signed For delivery)

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