| "World Scum" | ||||
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| Single bySoulfly featuring Travis Ryan | ||||
| from the albumEnslaved | ||||
| Released | January 25, 2012[1] | |||
| Recorded | September 2011 | |||
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| Length | 5:20 | |||
| Label | Roadrunner | |||
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"World Scum" is a song by American heavy metal bandSoulfly, released as the first and onlysingle from the 2012 albumEnslaved. The song was recorded in September 2011 at Tallcat Studios in Phoenix, Arizona, and released in late January 2012. It was released in the gameSleeping Dogs and written and produced byMax Cavalera, co-written byCattle Decapitation's Travis Ryan, serving as guest vocals, and co-produced byChris Harris.[1] Themusic video for this song was released three weeks later than the single.[2]
This 5:20 song has sequence ofMorbid Angel,Earth Crisis andStrife styles intremolos.[3]
Lyrically, "World Scum" is about a variety of disasters making up doomsday, including wars, torture, plague and famine. In addition to imaginations, lines include real-life disasters, includingJFK assassination andbombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The song title is sung six times, matching with 'blood scum'.[4]
A man dreams about hunting down frogs and dissecting it while serving time in prison. His dream begins when another man sorts pills into separate petri dishes and starts dissecting a frog to analyze its interior, while he hunts down frogs through the window using the sniper rifle. Then he goes out to bring more frogs in for dissection but he gets attacked by a slaver armed with an ax, dismembering his lower right leg. Snakes would start eating tissues where his leg was cut as a flock of sheep roam by. Then the man in lab apron went to check on him and found that he's brutally beaten, and confronted the ax man about the attack. The attacker swings an ax onto him one more time to make him perish. And then like the first scene of this music video, the final scene shows the same man sitting in the cell after his nightmarish dream is over. The video also shows what appears to be Jesus Christ being tempted by Satan.[5]