Cybervoid [Import]

Obliveon | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 10, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Press
• ASIN: B00000JAL2
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #710,011 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Cyber-Metal Masterpiece, September 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Cybervoid (Audio CD)

From start to finish, this album is phenomenal.

The production (by guitarist Pierre Rémillard) is crisp and clean, lending itself to a sort of sterile, machine-like perfection, and the music transcends time and space and transports you to an altered reality where man and machine have become one.

For the most part, the music on this CD is heavy, with pulsing, head-crushing rhythms. Over this, guitarists Rémillard and Gagné play a mix of crushing Drop-D power chords and technically brilliant melodic passages, as well as special-effect sounding riffs as found in Android Succubus.

Bassist Stéphane Picard provides a few clean vocal parts at the beginning of a few songs, where as the main vocals are handled by Bruno Bernier. Bernier's singing is of the rough-edged thrash style of singing, which provides a very agressive feel, but unlike a lot of other thrash singers (who speak English as a first language) the vocals on Cybervoid are extremely clear and easy to understand. Bioméchanique, which is sung in French, almost doesn't need a translation since the meaning is so easily conveyed by Bernier's singing.

If you don't yet have this album, buy it. If you haven't seen these guys play live (in front of several thousand screaming "Quebec-ers") you haven't seen anything...

5.0 out of 5 stars worlds ahead of Fear Factory, February 23, 2004

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phobos (Berkeley, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cybervoid (Audio CD)

A great album from one of metal's best, but sadly overlooked, bands. It's not their best-their two albums before this one, "From this Day Forward" and "Nemisis" are both more consistent-but it is their most diverse and best produced, and has some of their most original moments. The lyrics are actually good, too, much better and more thoughtful than your usual metal fare, which is especially surprising in a band from French Canada. There are some really cool sounds in here, and the overall sound is very smooth and full of color with lots of interesting tones. At its best, the music takes on a kind of hypnotic quality with its fast-paced grooves and swirling riffs. The whole thing moves forward with the precision of a machine-pretty technical, but without becoming overblown. This album would be a masterpiece if it weren't for a few songs in the middle that are a little less than compelling. They're still interesting, but they seem to lack something. The first four songs, though, are excellent, as are the last four or so at the end.