How I Spent My Summer Apocalypse
Noise On Computer

The single "The Upside Down Kingdom" is available for purchase.

The full 6-song EP is now available for listening/purchase!

Muta-scuM is back and banging it hard with a new 6-song EP of ripping distorted bass, drums/samples that will be immediate earworms, and complex synth work to bring the melody.

It is brain-shaking industrial music from the UK

[Muta-scum talks about the release]

The Moment And The Switch

The whole of the last couple of years very much feels like a moment that’s marked everybody’s life. I’ve used the phrase “pre-pandemic” more than I ever thought I would and life still hasn’t got back to anything that even resembles normal.


Other Viruses Are Available

Thanks to having small children I went into the UK lockdowns in a house where the common cold virus had well and truly set up shop. I’m extremely aware that Covid is not the only virus out there, however it is the one that’s spun society sideways the most recently. I wanted this track to in some way replicate that feeling which is why it’s a slightly different vibe to the rest of the EP (although to be fair that could also just be that I was listening to far too much Yura Yura when I wrote it).


We Eat Our Own

We like to think that we’re a mostly decent species but, as we saw in the UK lockdowns, we’re fundamentally a selfish animal out for what we can get.


Here We Go Again

Chaos. Good news.
It felt like that was the cycle through most of the last couple of years. Chaos as leaders screwed things up incessantly and good news when something went right. Unfortunately, the good news varied from being good news for most of us (restrictions easing, etc) to good news for the greedy and selfish at the top.


Truth 2.0

This was a revisit of one of the first decent tracks I ever wrote as Muta-scuM.
It’s felt like the truth has been in short supply for a while. The government, certainly in the UK, seems to be made predominantly of liars meaning that the only thing that really trickles down from the top is a culture of falsehood and deception. There is a time for truth and the time is always now.


The Upside Down Kingdom

The culture of “I’m alright, Jack” doesn’t sit well with me. The Jesus I see written about in the gospels was someone who went to the broken, the culturally disenfranchised, the outsider, the “othered”. Compare that to the culture we’ve seen modeled over the last couple of years and make your own decision. I don’t see much similarity. sadly.