Scorn (band)

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Scorn is an English electronic music project. The group was formed in the early 1990s as a project of former Napalm Death members Mick Harris and Nic Bullen. Bullen left the group in 1995, and the project continued on a solo project for Harris until 1997. Scorn was relaunched in 2000 and operated until the end of 2011. Harris restarted the project, once again, in 2019, but stopped it in late 2022.

History

Scorn was formed in 1991 in Birmingham by drummer Mick Harris and vocalist/bassist Nic Bullen, former members of the grindcore band Napalm Death.<ref name="LarkinHM">Template:Cite book</ref> Upon Bullen's departure in April 1995, Harris remained the only member of the project.<ref name="LarkinHM"/> Scorn has often been associated with industrial and experimental music, particularly with their Earache Records-era output between 1991 until 1994. Since the departure of Bullen in 1995, much of the output has been minimalist beats with an emphasis on very deep bass lines, often resembling dub and trip hop in structure.<ref name="TP">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="LarkinHM"/>

Justin Broadrick (also a former Napalm Death member) provided guitar for the first LP, Vae Solis. The EP Lick Forever Dog was formed of remixes from the album. Evanescence featured James Plotkin on guitar and was followed by the remix album Ellipsis which featured reworkings by Autechre, Coil, Bill Laswell, Meat Beat Manifesto and Robin Rimbaud.<ref name="TP" /> Harris parted ways with Earache after the Logghi Barogghi release, both sides having been unhappy with how the project was being handled.Template:Citation needed

Many fans of his drumming were confused by the contrast in musical style between Napalm Death and Scorn, but Harris saw it as a natural progression, telling Decibel in 2012: "For the ideas that I had, I needed to make that move. Some people think that it was a crazy move, just as grind was maybe starting to go places, do something, but I've always been an experimenter, still am; I’m someone who just loves sound."<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Having left Earache Records, the project kept pushing the heavy bass sound, subtly changing with each release.<ref name="LarkinHM"/> The downtempo sound gained Harris an underground following and he was seen as an early originator of dubstep.<ref name="RA2017">Template:Cite news</ref> In May 1997, Harris decided to end the project in order to finish relations with KK Records, after they refused to fund a collaboration EP with Bill Laswell as mixing engineer and a rapper Kalil.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> After pursuing other projects, Harris returned with two critically acclaimed Scorn albums on Hymen Records, Greetings from Birmingham and Plan B.<ref name="BBC2002">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Brainwashed">Template:Cite news</ref> Scorn then released a one track live mix called List of Takers in 2004 on Vivo Records.<ref name="Igloo2004">Template:Cite web</ref>

Scorn returned in 2007 with Stealth on Ad Noiseam with the CD version released on Kurt Gluck's Ohm Resistance label. Scorn then released 12" records on Combat Records and Record Label Records in 2008.<ref name="IHN">Template:Cite web</ref> Another full-length album entitled Refuse; Start Fires, again was released on Ohm Resistance in 2010. This album also marked the first time since Bullen left the project that Harris has worked full-on with another musician (excluding the unreleased EP with rapper Kalil from 1997 and a track Scorn did with David Knight on the "Rise|Converge" compilation in 2000), drummer Yan Treasey. On the heels of this full-length, Harris returned with the "Yozza" EP in 2011, again with Treasey.Template:Citation needed

In November 2011, Harris stated the Scorn project was "put to bed".<ref name="BMA">Template:Cite web</ref>

On 17 January 2019, the Ohm Resistance label announced that Scorn was back and would release an EP in early 2019, with an album to follow.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The EP of four new tracks, was called Feather. The full-length album, Cafe Mor, was released in November and featured a collaboration with Jason Williamson of Sleaford Mods. Daniele Antezza of Dadub mastered the album.<ref name="RA2019">Template:Cite news</ref> Harris intended to tour in 2020 with a new Akai MPC liveset but was forced to cancel due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<ref name="Brvtal">Template:Cite news</ref> He then released a studio album, The Only Place in 2021, with one track featuring a collaboration with Kool Keith.<ref name="Raggett">Template:Cite news</ref> In June 2022 Mick Harris teased new upcoming Scorn album with guitars by Justin Broadrick plus contributions from Shane Embury.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> But in August 2023 Mick Harris posted an update that "Scorn is dead" again since late 2022 and "it was a bad mistake bringing it back after I stopped it in 2012".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The final Scorn performance was in October 2022 at Kirkgate Centre, Shipley, England.Template:Fact

Members

Former members

  • Mick Harris - electronics (1991–1997, 2000–2011, 2019–2022), drums (1991–1994), backing vocals (1991–1992)
  • Nic Bullen - vocals, bass, electronics (1991–1995), guitar (1992–1994)

Former session/touring musicians

  • Justin Broadrick - guitar (1991–1992, 2022) (on "Vae Solis" album (1992), unreleased 2022 album)
  • Pat McCahan - guitar (1992) (live)
  • Paul Neville - guitar (1992) (on "Peel Session 1992" and "Lament" (1993) EP (track "Lament")))
  • James Plotkin - guitar, guitar synthesizer (1994) (on "Evanescence" (1994) album, "Dutch Radio Live Studio Session" archive live EP (2021, recorded 1994), "Peel Session 1994" and live)
  • Nick Garnett - didgeridoo (1994) (on "Evanescence" (1994) album (track "Exodus"))
  • Umar Bin Hassan - rap (1997) (on unreleased 1997 EP)
  • David Knight - guitar (2000) (on track "Stinger" from "Rise|Converge" (2000) compilation)
  • Ian Treacy - drums (2009–2011) (on "Refuse;Start Fires" album (2010) (almost all tracks) and "Yozza" (2011) EP (track "Piper"))
  • Jason Williamson - rap (2019) (on "Cafe Mor" (2019) album (track "Talk Whiff"))
  • Kool Keith - rap (2021) (on "Distortion" (2021) single and "The Only Place" (2021) album (track "Distortion"))
  • Kurt Gluck aka Submerged - bass (2021) (on "Distortion" (2021) single and "The Only Place" (2021) album (track "Distortion"))
  • Shane Embury - bass (2022) (on unreleased 2022 album)

Timeline

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Discography

Albums

Live albums

Remix albums

Compilation albums

Singles & EPs

  • 1992 - Lick Forever Dog (Earache)
  • 1992 - Deliverance (Earache)
  • 1993 - White Irises Blind (Earache)
  • 1993 - Lament (Dying Earth Records)
  • 1994 - Silver Rain Fell (Earache)
  • 1995 - Falling / The End (Remixes) (Scorn Recordings)
  • 1995 - Stairway (Scorn Recordings)
  • 1996 - Leave It Out (Possible)
  • 2000 - Imaginaria Award (Hymen Records)
  • 2002 - Governor (Hymen Records)
  • 2007 - Whistle for It (ÜNE (r)ecords)
  • 2008 - Super Mantis (Combat Recordings)
  • 2008 - Super Mantis Remixes (Combat Recordings)
  • 2009 - In The Margins (Record Label Records)
  • 2009 - Gravel Bed (Combat Recordings)
  • 2010 - Super Mantis / Gravel Bed (Remixes) (Combat Recordings)
  • 2011 - Yozza (Ohm Resistance)
  • 2019 - Feather (Ohm Resistance)
  • 2021 - Distortion (Kool Keith + Scorn + Submerged, Ohm Resistance)
  • 2021 - Dutch Radio Live Studio Session (recorded 5 September 1994)

References

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