SCOUR, the new extreme metal “supergroup” featuring Philip Anselmo (PANTERA, DOWN, SUPERJOINT) alongside members of CATTLE DECAPITATION and PIG DESTROYER, has released its debut track titled “Dispatched”. The song is taken from SCOUR’s self-titled debut EP, which will be released on July 15 via Anselmo’s Housecore label. The six-track effort was mixed by Dave Otero (CEPHALIC CARNAGE, CATTLE DECAPITATION, COBALT, KHEMMIS) and will be made available on CD and vinyl formats.
Comments Anselmo: “Doing the SCOUR project was a blast. The track ‘Dispatched’ was the first one I attacked, as it was the first one sent to me. Lyrically, I leave it to the listener to evaluate, as usual. The way I saw it, the songs were short, and extremely straight-forward, so I didn’t want to clutter ‘em up with too much. Therefore, I had to pick particular lyrics that seemed provocatively absurd enough, and to perform them as raw as deemed fit. Hope all true extreme music lovers enjoy the stuff as much as I did performing it. A huge cheers to all the awesome collaborators on this project… Much love to all.”
“Scour” track listing:
01. Dispatched
02. Clot
03. Crooked
04. Codes
05. Tactics
06. Tear Gas
SCOUR is:
* Phillip H. Anselmo (PANTERA, DOWN, SUPERJOINT) – Vocals
* Derek Engemann (CATTLE DECAPITATION) – Guitar
* Chase Fraser (ANIMOSITY) – Guitar
* John Jarvis (PIG DESTROYER) – Bass
* Jesse Schobel (STRONG INTENTION) – Drums
In a 2015 interview with Hellbound.ca, Anselmo stated about the new project: “[There’s] one of the fellows from CATTLE DECAPITATION, but it’s predominantly, in my ear, modern-ish black metal-sounding, thrashy black metal-type stuff. I’m going to put my own spin on it. I don’t have to sound like your boy from GORGOROTH [laughs] to get the point across, man. There’s other ways of singing over that style of music, and I shall employ many styles.”
Back in 2012, Anselmo told Terrorizer magazine about his varied musical taste: “I am a lover of all sorts of music but really my heart is … really I love extreme music, underground music, whether it be grindcore, death metal, thrash, black metal, [or whatever other] subgenre, and I find beauty in a lot of this stuff.”
An official SCOUR Facebook page has been launched at this location.
Source: Blabbermouth
