Scorn Defeat
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Scorn Defeat is the first full-length album by the Japan
ese black metal
band Sigh
. It is their most traditionally black metal
album released. The album takes its title from a line in the title track from the 1981 album Welcome to Hell
, by Venom
.
The very first Scorn Defeat pressing by DSP
has a black/white drawing on the
cover. The second pressing of DSP has a bandpicture of Shinichi on the cover. Both are equally rare, as both were published on DSP after the death of Euronymous
, and so had poor distribution. Additionally, DSP split the album into two sides: Side Revenge, which contained the first 4 songs, and Side Violence, which contained the last 3 songs.
Reissued in 2000 by Psychic Scream with a bonus track, "The Seven Gates of Hell," which is a Venom cover, and completely new artwork.
A vinyl version was also released by Vinyl Collectors (limited to 500 copies)
including a cover of Mayhem's "Carnage."
Reissued again in 2009 by Enucleation (once again with new artwork), this version includes the Requiem for Fools EP (1992), which allowed them to sign to DSP, and their split 7" EP with Kawir (1994), neither of which have ever been available on CD before. "The Seven Gates of Hell", however, is not included on this release.
Side Violence
2009 Reissue Bonus Tracks
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese black metal
Black metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....
band Sigh
Sigh (band)
is a Japanese extreme metal band from Tokyo, formed in 1990. They are credited as being one of the first Japanese black metal bands, when the majority of black metal in early 1990s came from Scandinavia. They gradually shifted from a more traditional black/thrash metal sound, to a more...
. It is their most traditionally black metal
Black metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....
album released. The album takes its title from a line in the title track from the 1981 album Welcome to Hell
Welcome to Hell
Welcome to Hell is the debut album by the English heavy metal band Venom, released in December 1981. Welcome to Hell is often described as speed metal, but it had a great influence on the then-emerging thrash metal style, and crystallized the elements of what later became known as death metal and...
, by Venom
Venom (band)
Venom are an English heavy metal band that formed in 1979 in Newcastle upon Tyne. Coming to prominence towards the end of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, Venom's first two albums—Welcome to Hell and Black Metal —are considered a major influence on thrash metal and extreme metal in general...
.
The very first Scorn Defeat pressing by DSP
Deathlike Silence Productions
Deathlike Silence Productions was an Oslo, Norway based independent record label founded in the late 1980s that focused primarily on black metal. It was the first independent label to do so. The label was founded by Øystein Aarseth, also known as Euronymous, who operated the label until his murder...
has a black/white drawing on the
cover. The second pressing of DSP has a bandpicture of Shinichi on the cover. Both are equally rare, as both were published on DSP after the death of Euronymous
Euronymous
Øystein Aarseth , who went by the pseudonym Euronymous, was a Norwegian guitarist and co-founder of the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem...
, and so had poor distribution. Additionally, DSP split the album into two sides: Side Revenge, which contained the first 4 songs, and Side Violence, which contained the last 3 songs.
Reissued in 2000 by Psychic Scream with a bonus track, "The Seven Gates of Hell," which is a Venom cover, and completely new artwork.
A vinyl version was also released by Vinyl Collectors (limited to 500 copies)
including a cover of Mayhem's "Carnage."
Reissued again in 2009 by Enucleation (once again with new artwork), this version includes the Requiem for Fools EP (1992), which allowed them to sign to DSP, and their split 7" EP with Kawir (1994), neither of which have ever been available on CD before. "The Seven Gates of Hell", however, is not included on this release.
Track listing
Side Revenge- "A Victory of Dakini" - 6:50
- "The Knell" - 4:21
- "At My Funeral" - 5:43
- "Gundali" - 5:57
Side Violence
- "Ready for the Final War" - 9:17
- "Weakness Within" - 3:07
- "Taste Defeat" - 7:56
2009 Reissue Bonus Tracks
- "The Knell" [Requiem For Fools 7" EP (92)] - 3:21
- "Desolation" [Requiem For Fools 7" EP (92)] - 4:16
- "Taste Defeat" [Requiem For Fools 7" EP (92)] - 7:27
- "Suicidogenic" [Split 7" EP With Kawir (94)] - 3:10
- "Schizo" [Split 7" EP With Kawir (94)] - 3:19
Line up
- Mirai Kawashima : Keyboards, Bass, Vocals
- Shinichi Ishikawa : Guitars
- Satoshi Fujinami : Drums