Scorn was formed in 1991 in
Birmingham by drummer Mick Harris and vocalist/bassist Nic Bullen, former members of the
grindcore band
Napalm Death. Upon Bullen's departure in April 1995, Harris remained the only member of the project. Having left Earache Records, the project kept pushing the heavy bass sound, subtly changing with each release. 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. After pursuing other projects, Harris returned with two critically acclaimed Scorn albums on Hymen Records,
Greetings from Birmingham and
Plan B. Scorn then released a one track live mix called
List of Takers in 2004 on Vivo Records. 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. 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. In November 2011, Harris stated the Scorn project was "put to bed". 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. 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. Harris intended to tour in 2020 with a new
Akai MPC liveset but was forced to cancel due to the
COVID-19 pandemic. He then released a studio album,
The Only Place in 2021, with one track featuring a collaboration with
Kool Keith. In June 2022 Mick Harris teased new upcoming Scorn album with guitars by
Justin Broadrick plus contributions from
Shane Embury. 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". The final Scorn performance was in October 2022 at Kirkgate Centre, Shipley, England. ==Members==