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Review: Formed in Belgium in 1990 by Dirk Ivens - known to some from Absolute Body Control Clinic, Blok 57, and Sonar - Dive have never been known for taking prisoners. Read anything about the band online and you'll likely stumble upon at least one or two references to their 'audio trademark', namely "abused drums", and this certainly sets the tone for what's in store once you press play on anything that has come from the project over the past 34 years. Misleadingly Dive's second album, First Album is actually the self-titled debut, which landed in 1990, and some bonus materials added to complete the aural image. Distortion, vocal strain, the sound of machinery searching for human survivors in a post-apocalyptic battleground, walls of white noise and the sound of atoms deconstructing, alongside darker, more sinister and tense moods, it's as uncompromising now as it was then.