Scorn – Deliverance (1992)

April 12, 2020

After the release of their album Vae Solis earlier in 1992, Scorn quickly followed up with the Deliverance…. EP? I mean, I call it an EP but its long as fuck. I see the Deliverance sessions as one long sprawling track, more than individual segments. The way the the song titles flow kinda encourage this too; “Deliverance Through Dub”, “Delivered”, “To High Heaven”. At first it seems repetitive and annoying, but you eventually get used to it. Very deep, introspective, murky, horrible dub. There’s a few sparks of guitar, but this is a massive step off the deep end from what the band experimented with on the second half of Vae Solis.

The Earache CD reissue also includes three Sabres Of Paradise remixes of the track Exodus, which originally appeared on 1994’s Scorn full length. This takes the “EP” length to nearly an hour. The remixes are more ambient, with more uplifting and gazing synth work than the deep, dark mires of Deliverance.