Scour continues its march.
Created in 2015 as a Black Metal project by Phil Anselmo (vocals, Down, ex-Pantera, ex-Superjoint Ritual…), the vocalist recruits several musicians to help him. So today we have John Jarvis (bass, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, ex-Pig Destroyer), Derek Engemann (guitar/vocals, Cast the Stone, ex-Cattle Decapitation), Adam Jarvis (drums, Lock Up, Misery Index, Pig Destroyer) and Mark Kloeppel (guitar/vocals, Misery Index, Pig Destroyer) for Black, the third EP.
An alarm, then the assault begins. Aside with Jason Momoa on vocals and Erik Rutan (Hate Eternal, ex-Morbid Angel) on guitar, the band offers a smashing ocean of powerful and oppressing riffs called Doom, that allows the two vocalists to scream on this raging rhythmic. We continue with Nail, a massive and fast-paced song that connects saturation with a weighing ambience, then with the heavy and short Propaganda that allows musicians to unleash Hell while the singer offers morbid tones. Flames is next, melting fastness, auditive greasiness and more sharp parts, with a solo that the most experienced immediately recognized as being from Par O’Brien (Cannibal Corpse, ex-Nevermore), then it’s the worrying Microbe, a sampled interlude, that comes to break the rhythm while keeping us out of breath before Subprime. This last composition comes back to both heavy and fast tones, but also a heady lead on the background to close the EP.
Scour is more than a playground between experienced musicians. Black proves that this unholy alliance is able to do great things, and even if it is very short, the EP develops a bit more the band’s discography.
90/100