Scorn

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Scorn
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General information
Genre (s) Industrial
founding 1991
resolution 2011
Founding members
Mick Harris
Nicholas bulls
Justin K. Broadrick
Last occupation
Mick Harris

Scorn is a British industrial band with influences from dub , ambient and downbeat .

history

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

After problems with Earache Records , Harris released his albums from 1995 to 1997 under his own label Scorn Records, with Earache still acting as a distributor . In 1997 Harris signed a contract with the Belgian record label KK Records. However, he felt insufficiently supported, so that an argument broke out. Therefore, Harris briefly thought of not recording the contractually intended two albums for KK Records and ending the project. Nonetheless, Zander and Whine were released on KK Records in 1997, and both albums were released again in the same year on Invisible Records. He subsequently released his albums on the German label Hymen Records and the Polish label Vivo Records. He is currently under contract with Combat Records .

The band played twice in the Peel Sessions , on September 20, 1992 and July 10, 1994. Both sessions, however, were never officially released.

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

On January 17, 2019, the Ohm Resistance label announced that Scorn is back and will release an EP with an album in early 2019. The EP with four new tracks called "Feather" was released on June 7th. The full-length album, Cafe Mor, was released on November 15th.

style

In the beginning the music was a synthesis of elements of heavy metal , ambient, dub and industrial with a dark 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 origins of Broadrick, who was also guitarist for Godflesh . Nick Bullen wrote all of 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 completely turned away from all non-electronic elements, and he initially developed the style further in the direction of ambient . The dub sound became even darker and heavier, the music of this phase is z. B. described as "hypnotic, constricted in low frequencies ". Greetings from Birmingham , recorded in 2000, is said to have had a certain influence on the later genre of dubstep .

The band's music is sometimes referred to as industrial hip-hop or electronic dub. Music journalists also created the term isolationism , which Harris always rejected.

Discography

Albums

  • Uae 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
  • Cafe Mor, Ohm Resistance 2019

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 , ÜNE 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 1996
  • Deliverance , Earache 1997
  • Imaginaria Award , Hymen 2007

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Alexander Pehlemann: Interview with Mick Harris. In: Zonic online magazine. Retrieved February 3, 2009 .
  2. ↑ Interview with Mick Harris. In: Sonic-Boom Magazine. December 11, 1997, archived from the original on September 7, 2005 ; Retrieved October 6, 2012 .
  3. ↑ a b List of peel sessions. BBC Online, accessed February 4, 2009 .
  4. ↑ Mick Harris Homepage ( Memento of August 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 20, 2013 (English).
  5. ↑ Scorn returns to Ohm Resistance with EP & LP . In Igloo Magazine. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
  6. ↑ Answer of the label Earache to the album Vae Solis . In: Ask Earache. Retrieved February 5, 2009 .
  7. ↑ Piero Scaruffi : The History of Rock Music: Scorn (Retrieved July 27, 2012)
  8. ↑ a b Scorn biography and discography. Record Label Records, archived from the original on February 7, 2009 ; Retrieved February 3, 2009 .
  9. ↑ Aldo Chimenti: Interview with Mick Harris and Martyn Bates. In: Rockerilla August 1998. Retrieved February 3, 2009 .