Electric Wizards JR Moores · Reaktion, 2021

CHAPTER 10

The Global Impact of Napalm Death’s Scum

Grindcore, blast beats and a record that reset the scale

7 works, in the order the book names them

  • 001/Album/1987

    Scum

    Napalm Death

    Napalm Death, whose LP Scum boasts twenty-eight tracks of quite exceptionally rapid music, described on the sleeve as ‘savagely brutal hardcore thrash’, sounded as though they were playing soundtracks of the end of civilisation.
    Open in YouTube ↗

  • 002/Album

    Master of Puppets

    Metallica

    It came the year after three of the ‘Big Four’ of the American thrash scene had released career-defining albums: Metallica’s Master of Puppets, Megadeth’s Peace Sells . . . but Who’s Buying? and Slayer’s Reign in Blood.
    Open in YouTube ↗

  • 003/Album

    Peace Sells . . . but Who’s Buying?

    Megadeth

    It came the year after three of the ‘Big Four’ of the American thrash scene had released career-defining albums: Metallica’s Master of Puppets, Megadeth’s Peace Sells . . . but Who’s Buying? and Slayer’s Reign in Blood.
    Open in YouTube ↗

  • 004/Album

    Reign in Blood

    Slayer

    It came the year after three of the ‘Big Four’ of the American thrash scene had released career-defining albums: Metallica’s Master of Puppets, Megadeth’s Peace Sells . . . but Who’s Buying? and Slayer’s Reign in Blood.
    Open in YouTube ↗

  • 005/Album

    Spreading the Disease

    Anthrax

    The fourth act in the gang, Anthrax, had released Spreading the Disease in 1985 and returned with Among the Living in early ’87.
    Open in YouTube ↗

  • 006/Album

    Among the Living

    Anthrax

    The fourth act in the gang, Anthrax, had released Spreading the Disease in 1985 and returned with Among the Living in early ’87.
    Open in YouTube ↗

  • 007/TV series

    Dr Who

    BBC

    I’m thinking particularly of Dr Who’s Cybermen and the Sea Devils.
    Open in IMDb ↗