- Editors Pick DVD Review
- Professionally shot in 2008 for a TV broadcast, the video is crisp and clear, with three camera angles providing a variety of shots. Extras like additional live footage (three cuts from a live show in Quebec in July 2009, including “Panorama,” “Treasure Chase” and “Tornado,” that are not of the greatest sound or video quality), a cool mini-documentary — all in French, but with subtitles — and a gushing interview with the always-entertaining Dave Grohl make this a superb package for anyone — that includes punks — who appreciates intelligent, complex metal. [Read More...]
- Voivod announced on Scion Rock Festival
- Vince and I had an AMAZING time at least year’s absolutely free Scion Rock Fest in Atlanta, GA. For the price of, well, nothing, we can to watch Mastodon, Neurosis, Pig Destroyer, Converge, Kylesa, Torche, Wolves in the Throne Room, Salome, and a host of other awesome bands. It was really quite the experience. And did I mention it was FREE?!?
Well, Toyota is it again this year, and Scion Rock Fest 2010 will take place on Saturday, March 13, this time in Columbus, OH. Vince and Kip Wingerschmidt are 100% committed to being there, and I’m trying to figure shit out right now. Meanwhile, the line-up is, once again, really killer. [Read More...]
- Music DVD Review: Voivod - Tatsumaki
- The show opens up with a super-charged take on their anthemic song “Voivod,” and never lets up. Right off the bat, Mongrain shows what he is made of with a smokin' hot solo. The pace never lets up as the band rip through great live versions of “The Unknown Knows,” “Overreaction,” “Panorama,” and “Nothingface,” to mention a few highlights of the 12 song set. [Read More...]
- Swept away by the many moods and twists that are the hallmark of VOIVOD's musical legacy
- The album on the whole is a very fluid and well-crafted piece of work, especially notable given that the band had to work on the material without the crucial input and actual in-studio presence of D'Amour. You might expect an album full of hodge-podge leftovers, the remains of what was not used for Katorz, but that doesn't seem to be the case. The more I listen to the album, the more I am able to grasp a continuous thread and feel that runs throughout it. For me, being a long-time fan of the band, that factor has always been a crucial component of their albums- the feeling that you are taken on a journey with many twists and turns along the way, but never losing touch with that "vibe" that's established at the start. [Read More...]
- Never say Die
- Never say die
Not even the passing of Voivod’s founder can keep the legendary Quebec
metal outfit from realizing their vision
BY Chris Bilton [Read More...]
- Review: Infini - 8 out of 10
- Although fans were well aware that there was another album’s worth of guitar tracks for the band to piece together as a follow-up, it took a great deal of time for Langevin, Belanger, and Newsted to end the grieving process and go full steam ahead once more, with Langevin openly admitting it wasn’t until Voivod’s triumphant Montreal performance in June of 2008 (with Martyr guitarist Dan Mongrain ably taking D’Amour’s place) that the creative spark was lit again. And you can hear the difference on the new record, Infini. The fact that Katorz succeeded in spite of the highly unusual circumstances surrounding the recording was in itself a big story, but with the band settling down and spending more time refining and enhancing the remaining songs the second time around, it makes Infini feel more fleshed-out, more fully-realized, and far less rushed than the previous album. [Read More...]
- Voivod releases a twelfth album
- Voivod are the reason I bought my ticket,” says Paul Salter. “They were originators, there's no other way to describe them. I'm glad they emerged again.”
Dressed in a maple-leaf cap and faded Voivod T-shirt, Salter was one of 70,000 heavy-metal fans at the Download Festival in England last week – just one stop on the Quebec band's concert circuit this summer, and one more sign that Voivod hasn't stopped rocking since it lost its guitarist and primary songwriter Denis (Piggy) D'Amour to colon cancer in 2005. [Read More...]
- Relapse Sets Release Date June 23
- VOIVOD: New Album ‘Infini’ To See US Release via Relapse
[Read More...]
