Scarve are quite a talented band; with instrumentation that mainly uses erratic time signatures, one might expect a rip-off of Meshuggah (hell, the logo looks like a bad knockoff of said band anyway). However, what you are presented with is an apparently "futuristic" sound melded with decent growls and terrible clean vocals.

As the album starts, we are shown that this is in fact the seventh track off of Meshuggah’s Chaosphere album, "The Exquisite Machinery of Torture"; no wait, this is Scarve! You learn this immediately as that odd unpalatable clean voice makes you wearily place your ears between your legs. If I wanted Chester Bennington from Linkin Park in my ears, I would have joyously offed myself quite a while ago. The saddest part however is that even though the addition of the clean "singing" adds some flavor to the already busy compositions, it is often bittersweet at most.

Although the instrumentation is highly technical, it is terribly hard to enjoy something like this. If you like this band, or other bands like this (technical, metalcore-ish, pseudo-thrash with death growls), then by all means give it a shot; other than that, skip this, you’ll find absolutely nothing of interest. (3/10)