THE OUTER LIMITS

Going through the library's Cd collection, I happened remembering that voivod was in the Archives, and since my borrowing pile was not very firnished, I selected one album, hoping I could wing it and land a representative album of theirs. Of course a certain cover helped me make my choice.

Apparently , this Quebecois group have been much longer in activity than I originally thought (from the selection available in the shelves of the library, this was the earliest of their albums) and that helped also, since I always try to pick among the first albums. From the other albums ratings, this choice apparentmly was not bad at all.

While never a major fan of metal music, I must confess that I actually managed to listen to the album four times during that week of rental, and I sort of enjoyed it (even though the album is too long for me) espcially the first four or five tracks. Needless to say thatFloyd's The Nile Song (which was the most metal of their song) naturally caught my attention, but other stand out tracks are Le Pont Noir and much later on the Jack Luminous track. I still have no idea of how they sounded like in their early days, but obviously fairly different since ProgMetal started some four or five yearts after the band's debut. And from what I gather from this album VoiVod are not a side inclusion in the progArchives and thety certainly sound progressive enough when compared to other ProgMetal groups I am aware of.

As Metal music was never my forte, I will avoid being too severe with such a band, so I will give them an average three star, even if I did not copy the album or will not be likely to rent it again.