SCARVE - Luminiferous
December 9, 2002, 22 years ago
(Listenable/WWIII)
Herein lies the second album from France's Scarve and the fact that Daniel Bergstrand knob-jobs the thing is quite significant in that Luminiferous sounds like a cross between Strapping Young Lad (vocals), Meshuggah (polyrhythms) and Darkane (general crumply thrash-matics), all bands Bergstrand has worked with. But if the producer is the plus, the production is the problem, this record being way too bright and screechy, to the point where you wonder if the guys were in fact going for a synthesis of man and machine, pushing playing into polymer, constructing an industrial version of the alloy, a sort of electrocuted Swedish thrash version of Fear Factory. And man, with all of this chaos by design, it's no wonder it takes six guys to do the job. Good, competitive but derivative.
