“Black metal is the only form of music since punk rock that’s not money motivated”: How members of Emperor and Amen smashed together black metal and hardcore in forgotten supergroup Scum

Black metal supergroup Scum posing for a photograph.

Scum were the great forgotten underground supergroup of the 2000s. Fronted by Amen vocalist Casey Chaos and featuring current and former members of Emperor, Darkthrone, Turbonegro and Mindgrinder, the melded black metal with hardcore punk, managing just one album, 2005’s Gospels For The Sick, and a handful of gigs before flaming out. In 2005, Casey talked Metal Hammer through how this unlikely collective came about and just why black metal and punk rock are flipsides of the same coin.

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