The debut album from this band from Canada.
The band was a quartet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars and vocals.
I have been aware of this band since I started to get interested in metal back in the mid 1980s. The fanzines of that day had adverts of with their albums and I got the feeling that this band was a bit avant-garde and not the run of the mill thrash/speed metal band.
They are included in ProgArchives and is even these days regarded as a....... avant garde thrash/speed metal band. Their music is also progressive.
Hence, I have just purchased all their studio albums, all the fifteen albums, and will review them this year. The reviews may even run into next year.
War And Pain is a thrash/speed metal album. It is like Kill 'Em All'ish, the Metallica debut album.
That Voivod was doing thrash/speed metal in their own, original way is pretty evident on this album. Avant-garde indeed. Not very avant-garde but the songs here are quirky and sets them a bit apart from the rest of the thrash/speed metal bands. It most definate sets them apart from the likes of Metallica, Slayer and Megadeth.
The music is pretty decent. It is still thrashy as heck but this is not too bad. It is a half-decent album. It is not an album which will ever grace my speakers again as it is a too poor album for my liking. It is still not a turkey and it has some decent stuff.
Hmmm....
1.5 points
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