Scum and the underground music scene have been insepearatable since 1996. His styles changed over the years but his life was and always will be dedicated to making some of the most disturbing, shocking, and aggressive music possible. He started off doing death metal after moving to Colorado in 1995 from Moscow, Russia where he was born and raised. Then in 1999 when he felt his English has improved enough to write rhymes he started rapping, joining DJ Sevill to form DL (Denver Lowlifes) and recording their first demo "On The Edge". This low quality recording showed that even though Scum's delivery and rhymes were far from perfect but the content was so profane and offensive that it motivated Scum to continue rapping and gained them their first fans. In the year 2000 Scum was joined by another local artist to form LnG and founded Lyrikal Snuff Productionz. They spent 2001 in the studio and in early 2002, the labels first official release - LnG's "Lyrikal Snuff" was out in stores throughout Colorado. Due to its graphic and violent content the CD was banned by a variety of stores making it very hard to distribute. Shortly after the release the duo broke up in the middle of recording their sophomore release "Murderous Intentionz" which was never finished. At that point Scum decided to pursue his solo career and began working on "Violent Verses" which was temporarily abandoned halfway through the recording when he hooked up with a local incarcerated producer named Airtight who supplied him with the beats to record "Enter The Asylum" which featured a variety of local talent and hit the stores in early 2003. At that time with almost no break, Scum went back to the studio and finished recording "Violent Verses" which was mainly self produced aside for a few tracks that were produced by Airtight and DJ Sevill (DL). In late 2003 the album was also completed released by LSP. From there on the real struggle began. Slowly but surely getting the CD's in stores throughout the country, performing numerous shows, setting up street teams to promote and distribute his releases. Doing more shows. From small 21 and up clubs to larger all age venues, Scum did them all. Putting GoreHop (Scum's self proclaimed style) on the map! The fan base grew, and so did Scum's lyrical and performing skills. In 2005 he returned to the studio to record his most diverse album up to date, "Only Bodies Left Behind" which featured a variety of producers and guest appearances by respected artists from all over the country. At the same time Scum was involved in recording, engineering and releasing albums for other LSP artists who all featured him on a variety of collaboration tracks. With numerous delays due to the extreme graphic content of the "Only Bodies Left Behind" artwork being turned down by a variety of manufacturers, the CD didn’t come out till January 2006. From there on it was a busy year for Scum and the crew. Establishing GoreFest (an annual all day horrorcore festival in CO), touring, online and street promotions, printing and selling a wide variety of merchandise, setting up distribution deals, recruiting new street teams in 21 states, selling CD's and merch all over the world, doing a variety of radio and TV interviews, recording numerous collaborations and appearing on various compilations and mixtapes. In 2006 Scum joined The 4 Horzemen, a group that consisted of respected horrorcore artists from all over the world and they released their debut EP "Unholy Ressurrection". Later that year, Scum signed more artists to LSP and began work on their upcoming releases that he engineered and coproduced. In 2006 Scum did 25 shows throughout the country, sold over 2500 albums and many hundreds of shirts, performed with numerous local and national artists and established a dedicated fan base all over the world. In 2007, Scum dropped his most extreme and best selling release - "Dinner's Served" which instantly became a horrorcore classic and up to this date generates him daily sales, and formed another group project called Hate Magnet, which is much different from any of his previous work and is a very heavy, guitar driven, moshpit oriented duo which targets the metal listeners who still have love for GoreHop because of it's sick content. With numerous collaborations also recorded this year Scum is due to appear on multiple releases in 2008 and beyond which will help to further increase the fan base and get gorehop more exposure all over the world. New merchandise and jewelry is selling better then ever, more LSP albums are dropping all featuring Scum's work, his next album is in the works and the next year is ahead with more releases, more shows all over the US, more LSP Fests, more CD release parties, signings, radio, and TV appearances. Scum/LSP have recently assembled the LSP Online Death Squad – an online promotions team that has been actively promoting Scum’s music via the Net and getting all the LSP news and updates out to our fan base. As a direct result of it the number of hits/plays on www.gorehop.com and Scum’s MySpace have tripled and we take pride in NEVER using robot generated views/plays like a lot of artists out there who try to make themselves seem bigger then they really are so please feel free to research and track the traffic our pages have been getting, it is all 100% real fans, real plays and real hype! The amount of shows that Scum have been getting booked for also skyrocketed allowing his intense live performances to be seen by a wider audience throughout the country. Currently Scum is seeking a records deal that would gain him more exposure, distribution deals, opening slots for bigger shows/tours, collaboration opportunities with bigger name artists and anything that can help further his career. Hit us up if u wanna talk business!