### Scorn: Gyral

#### 21/04/11 || Daemonomania

As usual, I’ll start this type of review with the warning that no metal is contained herein. 59% of you can now switch off your computers and return to painstakingly carving a perfect Judas Priest logo into your quivering thighs with a pen knife. Best of luck.

Not to say that Scorn has nothing to do with metal though. You see, some former Napalm Deathers decided many moons ago to ditch ze grind and start a menacing version of electronic/industrial music. By the time “Gyral” came out in 1996, only Mick Harris was left. Scorn goes on to this day as one of his sideprojects, but being that my interest in things computer-produced was limited to begin with, can’t say I’m deeply motivated to check out what they’re (he’s) up to now. This album will have to suffice.

So Sc(ubap)orn fill this disc front to back with minimalist, slithering industrial-tinged proto-trip hop. Yep. Just invented a subgenre. Again, there might be a trillion bands that “play” New Wave of I-TP-TH, and some might do it better, but I choose to remain blissfully ignorant. The tunes herein hang on to existence by a thread, droning around in your subconscious creating feelings of uneasiness, dread, creativity, and bowel irritability. I find this is the perfect stuff to put on when I’ve got something important to write or do (sure, that happens all the time) and want music that blocks background noises whilst being unobtrusive. Tracks like “Six hours one week” and the spooky “Stairway” have enough elusive detail to snag your attention, but for the most part “Gyral” is strictly relaxing, bass-heavy, and there.

Maybe some of you drnbnrs have the attention span to sit and pick through every last quiet moment of stuff like this, but Dumbo McDaemo is happy to just soak up the unsettling English vibes guvner. Perhaps you’ll use “Gyral” to type up a paper, or meticulously catalog your feces and urine collection, or clean out your deathchamber. Your choice – freedom really is super. No matter which odd activities you pursue, here’s hoping Mick and his Scorn provide the appropriately creepy soundtrack.

- Information
- Released: 1996
- Label: Earache
- Website: Scorn/Mick Harris MySpace
- Band
- Mick Harris: everything

- Tracklist
- 01. Six Hours One Week
- 02. Time Went Slow
- 03. Far In Out
- 04. Stairway
- 05. Forever Turning
- 06. Black Box
- 07. Hush
- 08. Trondheim – Gävle