SCARVE The Undercurrent (2007) CD

French technical death metal never gets quite the credit it deserves. While everyone was looking to Sweden or the US, France was quietly producing some of the most mechanically brutal and rhythmically unhinged extreme metal on the planet.

Scarve were at the sharp end of that scene, and The Undercurrent from 2007 is the record that proves it. This is the kind of tech-death that actually sounds like a machine malfunction rather than a guitar clinic, hitting somewhere between the polyrhythmic assault of Meshuggah and the surgical precision of Necrophagist, with enough groove buried in the chaos to keep it from disappearing entirely up its own time signature. If your idea of alternative fashion is a shirt from a band nobody at your workplace has heard of, this one belongs in the collection.

Full length album. CD format. Technical Death Metal. France, 2007.

Fans of: Meshuggah, Necrophagist, Nile, Soilwork