Rrrooaar

Voivod (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 24, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Noise
• ASIN: B00000FEPA
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #402,052 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Thrashing Death at it's very best, January 18, 2000

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James J. Gerbino (Pensacola, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rrrooaar (Audio CD)

This second release from Montreal's metal monsters made my head hurt the 1st time I heard it. But being a stubborn cuss I listened again and again and soon found that the other albums {I bought this on vinyl back in the day} of the day sounded weak and unfocused by comparison.

At the time there quite simply was nothing like this on the planet. Black metal artists Venom and Celtic Frost might have been the inspiration but these guys swiftly moved way beyond that sort of thing.

The concept they had was dark age barbarians tribesman armed with modern high-tech weapons. The very name of the band comes from the Kurgen name for the 'leader of 100,000 warriors'. The Kurgen were in fact so vicious and brutal that the other steppe nomads of the east ran from them into the Roman Empire.

Piggy blasts out a truly unique brand of six stringed mayhem and Snake blurts such odd lyrics that you get the idea that English isn't their 1st language right off the bat. Insane imagry driven into your skull by mechanical, pounding rhythms. Riffs in the vein of vintage Black Sabbath are mixed with Cliff Burton style bass and drumming that feels like Dave Lombardo on the 1st few Slayer album.

This disk bears no resemblance whatever to Angel Rat's alternative sound but will be instantly recognizable to listeners of Negatron and the new lineup. Production is scrictly minor label, analog noise but this strangly sounds retro to the modern ear and not bad at all. Yes, you can ear the edits listening with good headphones but if that's how you listen to metal thrashing death you ain't from the same planet as me!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What a shmuck!!, September 5, 2005

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jambob (the US of A) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rrrooaar (Audio CD)

To "Marco Esquandolas a dragon with matches." how utterly classless and moronic of you to give a classic Voivod album a crappy review mere days after their guitar player Dennis D'Amour (aka "Piggy") died of inoperable colon cancer. You truly are a shmuck! Do the world a favor... put in another Linkin Park Cd and quit pretending you know anything about metal.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rrriipping!, October 7, 2004

By 

J.J. Kilroy "devon_maloy" (Dallas, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rrrooaar (Audio CD)

This album is very fast thrash-metal with riffs using jazzy stacked fifth chords; giving it spacey, machine like overdriven harmonies. The lyrics are about giant monsters attacking cities, mechanized warfare, zombies, and ripping headaches. the drummer is very very good. On every album he sounds like in peak form, very well-practiced.

This album is ripping and raw with lots of improvised fills, but they are a very tight band, and utilize alot of odd-time signatures. I haven't heard "Killing Technology", but I like "Rrrooaar" much more than "War and Pain" (the debute) or "Dimension Haitross" (most aclaimed).

"Rrooarr" is far more straight-forward thrash-metal than the artsy "Nothingface" and other the later progressive albums.

I say, that any band that decides to name its album "Rrrooaar" is making a clear statement.

Its Rrripping.