Review by Morpheus Kitami for Coroner - No More Color (1989)

It's odd how many tech thrash bands have made a conscious effort to copy Voivod over the years. It's not like it's a negative thing, they used it as a starting ground for amazing things. I just wouldn't think of Voivod as influential off-hand. It makes me wonder if you can divide the genre into camps based on whether they owe more to Voivod or to Watchtower.
The album starts off quite strong with Die By My Hand, while it's aggressiveness and technical prowness is obvious, that's not where it's strengths lie. Instead, the chorus is incredible. There are no real melodic elements in this moment, it's a pure rhythm piece with a group shout; Yet it works thanks to the already simple nature of the vocals and lyrics combined with the whole band playing in perfect harmony with each shout of the title.
Really, you could take a moment as memorable as this out of any song and construct a paragraph out of it. Beneath a surprisingly dirty production job lies a very musically varied album. But this also leads into the one big problem this album has, that this is basically a solo guitarist album that doesn't know it's one. If the bassist/vocalist and drummer are as skilled as the guitarist, you'd never know it from this album, for they remain purely background material. While they are a tight unit, I just wish they were a little more.