Last time I saw S.C.U.M. the lead singer was grinding his heel into the altar of an East End church. In fact, they only ever seem to play churches, which is cool because once the crowd get over their shame they start fighting between the pews. Now this handsome band of teenagers who’ve made a habit of deconsecrating Christ’s trendy Gothic spaces by chasing the Holy Spirit out the back with endless gusts of demon reverb have started moving around the planet to spit on more sites of emotional and cultural value. They’re recording a lot of songs about it, and letting Viceland hear them first.
The band are documenting their journey by releasing a collection called SIGNALS (which, happily is an anagram of “singles”, wait, no it isn’t, I think I missed the point.) The band are stopping in every city they pass to take studio time and record a new track specific to that location. Each one is going to be released as a digital download, and this is the first, “WARSAW”. It’s available to download soon, but until then, you can watch and listen here, exclusively. It’s fucking good.
Reader Comments
April 16th, 2009
Bands that haven’t even bothered to check whether a band name is already taken (by at least 4 or 5 previous bands! argh!) can go fuck themselves.
April 16th, 2009
I think its good.
April 16th, 2009
i was the drunk who drank all the holy water at worship
April 16th, 2009
this is the best music on the vice blog in a long time.
a place to bury demons.
April 16th, 2009
utter rubbish. vice has such bad taste in music recently. what happened?
April 16th, 2009
How many bands are called Society for Cutting Up Men that you know? you blasted fuck monkey.
April 16th, 2009
radical. is it just me or is the new drummer seriously hot!
April 17th, 2009
“Society for Cutting Up Men” is ok, S.C.U.M. is not ok, you self-fucker.
April 17th, 2009
Do one. The drummer is hot.
April 17th, 2009
I drank some holy water at Worship. Tasted like the flu virus.
April 17th, 2009
..that sounds SO goood!!!
April 18th, 2009
it’s alright.. I like how it sounds like an air-raid siren sort of thing.. but their name is shyte.. can’t they just be something normal like Shrouded Shit or Monk Suckers?
April 19th, 2009
good video great use of strobe
April 19th, 2009
this is fucking good.
May 16th, 2009
for a start, it’s S.C.U.M without the final full-stop, and for another thing this song is incredible and a sign that British music isn’t completely lost. bands like S.C.U.M and Ulterior are, thankfully, regaining a lot of this country’s lost respect. and they realised that a number of other bands were called S.C.U.M., hence they dropped the final full stop (period).
June 27th, 2009
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August 4th, 2009
stud..
S.C.U.M stands for Society for Cutting Up Men you idiot