Telling the story of a band as complex and long-lived as Voivod is no easy task. The band’s first DVD doesn’t even try, it just dump material into your lap.
At no point during the two-hour, interview-only documentary about the band does anyone realize we don’t need to know every obscure piece of information.
Weened at the nips of San Francisco thrash and NY crossover, and raised through the hardcore gladiator school, Himsa heaves up fully articulated metalcore.
Henry Rollins has mellowed. Shock & Awe, his new spoken word DVD, presents Rollins as a comedian, recognizing, and poking fun at, his human inadequacies.
Frenzied, black metal with a very polished sound that infuses neo-classical guitar lines in between the constant, drill-core drumming and screeching vocals.
Members of Will Haven and Oddman playing sludge metal like EyeHateGod. Screamo vocals, trudging riffery, and the odd d-tuned swing of an ogre lumbering along.