Scorn (band)

Scorn was a British industrial band with influences of dub, ambient and downbeat.

History

Mick Harris, 1987-1991 drummer of the British grindcore band Napalm Death was eclectic musical interests during his time with the band. After leaving Napalm Death, he and Nicholas Bullen and Justin K. Broadrick - both founding members of Napalm Death - Scorn the project. Broadrick left the band after the first album Vae Solis, bulls after the 1995 album Gyral. Since then, Harris is responsible for all the music and lyrics as well as all the arrangements. He produces the music in his home studio in Birmingham, which he calls The Box.

After problems with Earache Records Harris published from 1995 to 1997 his albums under his own label Scorn Records, with Earache served still as a distributor. Signed in 1997, Harris signed a contract with the Belgian record label KK Records. He felt, however, not sufficiently supported, so it came to battle. Therefore, Harris thought briefly because no longer receive the contractually provided two albums for KK Records and finish the project. Nevertheless, Zander and Whine were released in 1997 on KK Records, both albums released in the same year, again at Invisible Records. As a result, he released his albums on the German label Hymen Records and the Polish label Vivo Records. He is currently with Combat Records.

The band played twice at the Peel Sessions, September 20, 1992 to July 10, 1994. Both sessions were never officially released.

Although Scorn from 1995 consisted of Mick Harris, the band was on tour regularly. In November 2011, Harris announced that the project had been completed and that he would take a break and work on new ideas.

Music style

Initially, the music was a synthesis of elements of Heavy Metal, Ambient, Dub and Industrial with a gloomy mood. The focus was on very deep and loud bass frequencies. The first album Vae Solis is an example of the successful symbiosis of Industrial and downbeat, not least because of the musical origin of Broadrick, who was at the same time guitarist with Godflesh. Nick Bullen wrote all the lyrics for the album on his Pocket PC, which he always carried with him to write down his ideas.

With the departure of Nick Bullen, Harris turned off completely from all non - electronic elements, he also first developed the style towards Ambient further. The dub sound was even darker and heavier, the music of this phase is described, " constricted hypnotic in low frequencies " than, for example. The 2000 recorded Greetings from Birmingham is said to have a certain influence on the subsequent genre Dubstep.

The band's music is sometimes referred to as Industrial hip-hop or electronic dub. Music journalists created next to the term isolationism, the Harris but always refused.

Discography

Albums

  • Vae Solis, Earache Records 1992
  • Deliverance, Earache Records 1992
  • White Irises Blind, Earache Records 1993
  • Evanescene, Earache Records 1994
  • Colossus, Earache Records 1994
  • Ellipsis, Earache Records 1995
  • Gyral, Earache Records 1995
  • Logghi Barogghi, Earache Records 1996
  • Zander, Invisible 1997
  • Whine, Invisible 1997
  • Anamnesis: Rarities 1994-1998, Invisible 1999
  • Greetings from Birmingham, Hymen 2000
  • Plan B, Hymen 2002
  • List of Takers, Vivo Records 2004
  • Stealth, Ad Noiseam 2008
  • Refuse; Start Fires, OHM Resistance 2010

EPs

  • Lament, Dying Earth Europe / Aquese 1993
  • Silver Rain Fell, Earache Records 1994
  • Leave It Out, Possible Records 1996
  • Governor, Hymen Records 2002
  • Whistle For It, TSOWs Records 2007
  • Super Mantis Part I, Combat 2008
  • In the Margins, Record Label Records 2009
  • Gravel Bed, Combat 2009

Singles

  • Lick Forever Dog, Combat 1992
  • Stairway, Earache Records 1995
  • Leave It Out, Possible in 1996
  • Deliverance, Earache 1997
  • Imaginaria Award, Hymen 2007
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