THE VOID

I like Beardfish, I really do - but half of this album is borderline unlistenable! For some weird reason they decided to be a somewhat metal band here... oh boy, this DOES NOT work at all! Beardfish are good, sometimes even great, prog rock band, but as metal unit they are plain horrible. The first four songs (Voluntary Slavery, Turn To Gravel, They Whisper, This Matter Of Mine) are the proof of it - riffs are annoying, music is viscous in a wrong way, everything falls apart, it is not really heavy, it is not memorable, apart of growls, but the growls does not work at all as well.

The second part of album is much better, and at last sounds like Beradfish - Ludvig & Sverker is very fine song, Void is enjoyable.

I consider this album to be a band experiment that mostly went wrong and next CD is much better!