Napalm Death Puzzle
"Scum" is the debut studio album by English grindcore band Napalm Death. It was released on 1 July 1987 through Earache Records. It is widely considered a formative influence on the grindcore genre. The two sides are very different, and the two taken together serve to bridge stylistic elements of heavy metal and punk rock. While the songs on the A-side are influenced heavily by hardcore punk and anarcho-punk, the vocals and lower-tuned electric guitars on the B-side anticipates subsequent developments in extreme metal. The album sold more than 10, 000 copies in the year of it's release and reached #8 on the UK Indie chart. In 2005, "Scum" was voted the 50th best British album of all time by Kerrang! Readers, and in 2009 was ranked number five in Terrorizer's list of Essen-tial European grindcore albums. The most decisive cause of the commercial success of Scum came when radio host John Peel played songs from the album on his radio show BBC Radio 1, which gave the album national attenti