When the supporting cast from such b-movie inspired bands as Rob Zombie and Powerman 5000 get together, the end result would expectedly land somewhere around Troma funded quality. With their debut effort "Blah...Blah...Blah... Love Songs For The New Millennium", Scum Of The Earth don't even hit that relatively low mark. Assembling a collection of what could easily be mistaken as Rob Zombie/White Zombie b-sides, this album revels in a highly dated electro-metal sound that lacks the magnetism of the prime days of either band.

From the onset the listener is hit with displaced samples, chunky riffing and electronically augmented beats that revel in a futuristic sense of evil. Hooky choruses and driving rhythms are constantly attempted, yet without the charisma of one of the brothers Zombie at the helm they are quickly driven into the ground and hastily buried. Sure there are moments where this group deviate from the formula of their previous outfits, taking the time to develop an ominous soundscape or two. They even try their hand at a shaky ballad. But with such a derivative nature and little more creativity than that of a cover band being exercised (or does their gimmick call for exorcised?), not even the dead would be interested by what is offered up here, let alone the undead.

It's sad to see that these musicians are so adamant to stick to a sound that has more or less now run its course. Sure some of them were there to help perfect it, but you'd at least think they would try to continue to evolve it. This album is proof that they haven't and thus the listener is left with the same old skeletons in a barely renovated closet. From their flat pseudo-covers and borrowing of vocal patterns from groups like Queen ("Pornstarchampion") and INXS ("Murder Song") to the uninspired electro-industrial tinged dirges they dredge up on their own, this album is one of the blandest affairs to hit stores in recent memory. In fact, it's title should have been shortened to just "Blah...Blah...Blah...", because that sums up the material featured on it perfectly.