05 Jun 2007 - The reviews speak out for SCARVE and KRUGER
June 4, 2007
Don't hesitate
to listen to some of the most massive metal releases to break through
the walls of mediocrity this year, SCARVE and KRUGER!
Scarve
The Undercurrent
The follow-up to SCARVE's
critically acclaimed "Irradiant" (2004), "The Undercurrent", coming out
in June 2007, has already hit reviewers and fans right in the gut. If
you haven't taken the time to lose yourself in SCARVE check out their MySpace and listen to the recently posted "The Plundered."
”Finally this monster is
here! Honestly, I can’t get it out of my stereo, it’s just keeps
getting better and better and I was hooked during the first spin!!
Awesome!”
-Silenoz of Dimmu Borgir
This album marks a
grandiose return of the band marking them as pioneers and way ahead of
their time. Beyond any doubt the most sophisticated, intricate,
unconventional SCARVE recording to date. SCARVE will impress and
annihilate both friend and foe!
"SCARVE are an integral
part of France's outward facing metal scene, and The Undercurrent, the
group's fourth, certainly will turn heads in the same way...Compared to
bands fighting for similar goals, The Undercurrent renders 98.5% of
them inert."
-Decibel Magazine
"'The Undercurrent' is a
dark, dense, and nerve-fraying album that recalls some of SYL's more
disorienting fare and ends up a treacherous voyage into the eye of the
extreme music storm. You'll have many opportunities to peel away layers
on 'The Undercurrent', helping give the album some lasting appeal."
-Blabbermouth 8/10
"SCARVE will strangle you."
-Corazine Magazine
Kruger
Redemption Through Looseness
KRUGER
the Swiss whiskey-induced metal hybrid, made themselves known in 2005
with a massive, heavy and very promising piece produced by Fredrik
Nordstrom entitled "Cattle Truck". KRUGER now
delivers an epic and intense follow-up, “Redemption Through Looseness”.
Gloomy and dark, yet overwhelmingly powerful, this new album drowns the
band’s acknowledged influences (Breach,
Entombed, Tool, Neurosis) into an intense magma of shredding
metallurgic charge, drilling vocal turpitudes and desperate, naked
heaviness.
"Stark,
stunning and full of great twists and turns, KRUGER is THE band that
has the chops to step into the hole left by Mastodon"
-PittRiff 9/10
“The
songs are intricate and complex, full of twists and turns. KRUGER
creates a soundscape that's experimental at times, but also has enough
metal riffs and structure that it is still very accessible.”
–About.com
"The
listener is treated to intelligent musicianship with a fine balance
between intricate playing and bruise-inducing chug...keeping the
listener fresh and invigorated; especially with their generous amount
of loose hulking riffs and unwavering aggression"
-PRP 4/5
posted by: Die Crawling Media
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