The bands debut album, "Blah... Blah... Blah...: Love Songs for the New Millennium", is built around high-propulsion riffs, mechanized beats, growling vocals and horror film soundbytes. Throughout, songs like the carnivalesque "Get Your Dead On" and the surging "I Am the Scum" illustrate the type of dynamic, granite-solid musicianship Riggs exhibited for six years with Zombie.

"I'm really proud of the work I did with Rob, so I don't mind being compared to him. As long as people don't say Scum sounds like something that sucks" Riggs jokes. "But I did want to do things a little different, so I threw on a couple of acoustic songs that I've had around forever, 'Little Spider' and 'Give Up Your Ghost' so it's not all in-your-face, bash, bash, bash."

Most of the songs on "Blah... Blah... Blah..." were written by Riggs over the past decade, and stored on his computer for a stormy night. Then, when Rob Zombie decided to put his music career on hold to focus on making horror movies, Riggs found himself with extra time on his hands and Scum of the Earth was born.

Check out the band at http://www.scumoftheearth.com or on Myspace at http://www.myspace.com/scumoftheearth.

2. A Thrash Metal/Crossover band from Dallas, Texas that Released one demo in 1989 called "Introduction to Filth" and played many shows in Texas and a few in New Orleans.

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Scum of the Earth is a heavy metal band. They have produced two albums. The band formed in 2003 when Rob Zombie set aside his music career, focusing on writing and directing movies. During this time, Mike Riggs and John Tempesta formed Scum of the Earth.

The band name may have been inspired by the Rob Zombie song, also called Scum of the Earth released in 2000, but is more than likely inspired by the movie of the same name.