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Back to the past!!! That's what we tell ourselves when we listen to Belgium's oldest, but still playing punk/hardcore band CAPITAL SCUM!!! This band, which will certainly not be known by everyone, but probably only by true experts and connoisseurs, celebrates this year an incredible four decades on the scene!!! CAPITAL SCUM's early influences were the early burgeoning US hardcore scene, as well as the forming European one and well-known UK82 scene.
CAPITAL SCUM's music has all of these elements, including a youthful pissed offness, thanks to several new members who have joined the band over the years, making their hardcore punk rumble sound like the soundtrack to a street riot!!! CAPITAL SCUM their age doesn't stop and nothing will stop them from showing you a proper riot on the OEF stage!!!
Bio
Capital Scum was born from the passion for angry music and the chronic smalltown boredom of a few Belgian punks in the economical bleak and depressing times caused by the early eighties recession.
Inspired by the burgeoning US hardcore scene (Black Flag, Agnostic Front), the early Euroscene (Lärm, Slime, Zyklome A) and the UK82 scene (Discharge, GBH, Varukers), Capital Scum forged a distinctive sound that mixed speed, Belgian workingclass angst and distortion in a soundtrack for a fullscale riot.
After 2 self- released demotapes (1984 -1985) the band was selected be part of the legendary “alle 24 goed!” compilation (1985 Punk Ect) which put the early second wave of Belgian punk on the global map. It would not take long before Capital Scum became the flagship of the legendary Hageland records label, with the raw and pummeling “Clutch the flag” EP (1986) pushing the Hageland hardcore flag deep up the asses of the conservative moral majority and in the hands of young angry misfits all over the world!
In 1987 Hageland records released the first full album “Tsjerno kills” which solidified their position as one of the leading Belgian hardcore punk bands.By the end of the eighties the Belgian hardcorescene started losing steam with bands either quitting, going metal or going postpunk.Unfortunately Capital Scum was no exception as “the real world “ got in the way and priorities shifted. And thus becoming a legend of past days in many discussions between Europunk collectors in secondhand recordshops all over the world.
In 2003 the beast was resurrected from hibernation, having not changed one bit, still driven by pure passion and pure power, rebuilding a new network of friends both old and new.This was not a band just going thru the motions, but a raw, in your face, pissed off HARDCORE PUNK band.A new release soon followed a few months later with the “Freakshow” 7inch on the Rocknrollradio label. The band was back and raced full throttle through the scene playing every dive and squat that would book them.
The second full length “100% guilty” followed in 2005, and band seemed hungry as wolfpack attacking a flock of sheep.With a lineup change adding some new young crusty blood, the band released a new set of ragers on the “ Yesterday! Today! Tomorrow” 4 way split on the Rocknroll radio label in 2007.
Releasing their best material to date and proving that Capital Scum was still a force to be reckoned with.Again a few lean years plagued by lineup changes followed, but the founders and brothers (I mean real brothers not bro’s) soldiered on releasing a split LP with legendary Mincecore warriors Agathocles on the German Power Up label in 2019.
With the Yesterday, today, tomorrow line up (feat. Members of Days of Desolation and Arrogant) reunited a new dose youthful anger seems to injected in this classic Belgian hardcore band.
No fads, age, health scares or radioactive bandmembers (a little incrowd joke) seem to stop this band!Ever wondered what a relentless lifer sounds like? They sound like Capital Scum!
Discography
Release date | Release name | Media |
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2021 | Stick To The Core Records | |
2021 | Clutch The Flag (Re Release 12" coloured vinyl Green Splatter) Stick To The Core Records | |
2020 | Blast From The Past - Larmattacke " 5 (Comp LP) Larmattacke Records | LP |
2019 | Agathocles/Capital Scum (Split LP) Power It Up | LP |
2012 | Face Your Underground 12 (Comp CD) No Label | CD |
2011 | If You Dont Like It, You Can Just Fuck Off! (Comp CD) Up Yours | CD |
2007 | Yesterday! Today! Tomorrow! (4 split CD) RocknRollRadio | CD |
2006 | Polar Fury (Book + comp CD) By Kika D | CD |
2006 | Icons Of The Underground Volume 1 Glenn Danzig (Comp CD) Hedonism rec | CD |
2005 | 100% Guilty (Album CD) RocknRollRadio | CD |
2003 | Freakshow (EP Vinyl) RocknRollRadio | EP |
2003 | Self made Sampler #1 (Comp CD) Self Made Maniac Productions | CD |
2001 | Killed By Hardcore (Comp Album) Redrum Rec | |
2000 | Alle 24 Goed (Comp Re-Release Vinyl and CD) Get Loife Records | CD |
1998 | Network Of Friends Vol 2 (comp lp) Ataque Sororo Rec | |
1988 | War (comp EP Vinyl) Over The Top Records | EP |
1987 | Tsjerno Kills (Album LP) Hageland Records | LP |
1987 | The Incredible Power Of Darkness (Comp Album) Rise& Fall Productions | |
1986 | Clutch The Flag (EP) Hageland Records | EP |
1986 | Emma (Double comp LP) M.A.Draje Records | LP |
1986 | What Are You Doing About That Hole In Your Head? (Comp Album) Rot Records | |
1985 | Alle 24 goed (Comp LP) Punk ETC | LP |