Electronic project from Birmingham, England, UK. Formed in 1991 as a duo project of former Napalm Death members Mick Harris and Nik Bullen. In their early years Scorn was often associated with industrial and experimental music. After the departure of Nik Bullen in April 1995, Scorn became a solo project of Mick Harris, and the music mostly offers minimalist beats with deep bass lines, often resembling dub and trip-hop in structure.
Project was stopped in May 1997, but started again in March 2000. Then it was stopped for the second time in November 2011, but officially started again in January 2019.
In June 2022 Mick Harris teased a new upcoming Scorn album with guitars by Justin Broadrick. 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". So the last Scorn performance was on October 1 2022 at the venue "Golden Cabinet" in Shipley, UK. In his Instagram post from December 19 2023 Mick confirmed that "Scorn is dead long dead".
Final lineup:
Mick Harris - electronics (1991-1997, 2000-2011, 2019-2022), drums (1991-1994)
Former members:
Nicholas Bullen - vocals, bass, electronics (1991-1995)
Session/live musicians:
Justin K Broadrick - guitars (1991-1992, 2022) (on "13003" album (1992), unreleased 2022 album)
Pat McCahan - guitars (1992) (live)
Paul Neville - guitars (1992) (on "Peel Session 1992")
James Plotkin - guitars, guitar synth (1994) (on "13043" (1994) album, "2158957" archive live EP (2021, recorded 1994), "Peel Session 1994" and live)
Umar Bin Hassan - rap (1997) (on unreleased 1997 EP)
Nick Garnett - didgeridoo (1994) (on "13043" (1994) album (track "Exodus"))
David Knight - guitars (2000) (on track "Stinger" from "341714" (2000) compilation)
Ian Treacy - drums (2009-2011) (on "270539" album (2010) (almost all tracks) and "314032" (2011) EP (track "Piper"))
Jason Williamson (3) - rap (2019) (on "Cafe Mor" (2019) album (track "Talk Whiff"))
Kool Keith - rap (2021) (on "2095303" (2021) single and "2180884" (2021) album (track "Distortion"))
Kurt Gluck aka Submerged - bass (2021) (on "2095303" (2021) single and "2180884" (2021) album (track "Distortion"))
Shane Embury - bass (2022) (on unreleased 2022 album)
