Irradiant (album)

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Irradiant
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Studio album by
Scarve
ReleasedJanuary 26, 2004
Genre Technical death metal, thrash metal
Length44:18
Label Listenable
Producer Daniel Bergstrand
Örjan Örnkloo
Scarve chronology
Luminiferous
(2002)		Irradiant
(2004)		 The Undercurrent
(2007)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Your Last Rites(favorable) [3]

Irradiant is the third album by the French technical death metal band Scarve. This is the last album to feature Guillaume Bideau's vocals as he joined the Danish industrial metal band Mnemic in October 2006. [4] The digipak version of the album includes two live bonus tracks "Heaven-Sent" and "Luminiferous", two video clips; "Mirthless Perspectives" and "Emulate the Soul" as well as an extended CD-ROM feature.

Contents

Fredrik Thordendal of Meshuggah contributed a guitar solo on the song "Asphyxiate", while Gustaf Jorde of Defleshed contributed extra vocals to the song "Molten Scars".

"Mirthless Perspectives" and "Emulate the Soul" were made as music videos.

"Irradiant" was released as a single.

Track listing

  1. "Mirthless Perspectives" – 3:45 (5:13 in the Digipak Edition, there's an intro for the song of 1:27)
  2. "An Emptier Void" – 3:39
  3. "Irradiant" – 4:05
  4. "Asphyxiate" – 4:52 (featuring Fredrik Thordendal of Meshuggah)
  5. "Hyperconscience" – 4:16
  6. "The Perfect Disaster" – 5:13
  7. "Molten Scars" – 2:46 (featuring Gustaf Jorde of Defleshed)
  8. "Fire Proven" – 6:29
  9. "Boiling Calm" – 7:44

Digipak version

Credits

Band members

Guest musicians

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Scarve - Irradiant". AllMusic .
  2. ↑ Lahtinen, Lux (January 1, 2004). "Scarve - IRRADIANT". Metal-Rules.com. Retrieved February 16, 2023.
  3. ↑ Sessions, Chris (February 1, 2004). "Scarve – Irradiant Review". Your Last Rites. Retrieved February 16, 2023.
  4. ↑ SCARVE | Unique, Detailed Biography | MusicMight



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