SCARVE – Irradiant

Irradiant is a punishing album reminiscent of a more exciting version of STRAPPING YOUNG LAD. Yeah you heard right. No disrespect to the man (STRAPPING YOUNG LAD‘s Devin Townsend) but SCARVE lay down a fresh metallic attack with a ball-bustin’ attitude (much like SOILWORK when they bursted onto the scene with their second album The Chainheart Machine). Irradiant is blistering fast and downright destructive…but most importantly, Irradiant is dynamic thanks to some creative riffing by guitarists Patrick Martin and Sylvian Coudret and top-notch drumming by Dirk Verbeuren. While influences range from DEATH to ATHEIST, SCARVE‘s sound is more on par with the aforementioned STRAPPING YOUNG LAD and second-rate Swedish death metallers such as DARKANE, GARDENIAN. But fortunately nothing about this French sextet’s third full-length album is second-rate. (Listenable Records)

This entry was written by roycifer, posted on February 19, 2004 at 11:07 pm, filed under Reviews. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

One Comment

  1. Jovel
    Posted April 5, 2004 at 2:12 pm | Permalink

    This is one of my top-bands !
    These guys are killers !

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