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Voivod
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Voivod is a total original band. Human Furnace said it best, "Denis D"Amour's guitar sound & writing was so unique that Voivod was always ahead of their time". Piggy will be missed very much, but never forgotten. His music will live for ever. Because it's real! That's why Jason Newston left Metallica to be in a band that writes real music with soul.
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Even with the anti-entropic rising popularity of each release, Voivod still were far from a household name. The macro-solution to this mega-problem? Sign with MCA for three records and a commercial apex that may never come again. Nothingface became the bands best and best-selling album, featuring flawless digital production, a newfound restraint in tempos and arrangements, and a more thoughtful, poetic lyrical approach. If you have not heard Voivod, this is the place to start.
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As the replacement for popular vocalist Snake in Voivod, Eric Forrest had some big shoes to fill. He performed more than capably for them, but his career derailed when he suffered severe injuries in a van accident while on tour in 1998. After a long recovery he was finally ready to resume, but Voivod had broken up, or decided to move on without him (depending on what story you read), and Forrest was left without a gig. But he has rebounded successfully, landing a role in Project: Failing Flesh as well as fronting his own band, E-Force. By 2003 his new band had released its first album, Evil Forces. Inevitably, comparisons to his previous band will come, and in this case the comparisons are valid.
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During the recording, Voivod hinted that more experimentation would go into Katorz than the previous album. While this is clear, the band didn’t experiment for its own sake and there are no overzealous attempts to recapture the vibe of any previous album. They have always pushed defiantly forward, and Katorz adds new aspects and colors to their diverse discography. Odd sounds, strange rhythms, cosmic segues and unsettling atmospheres exist in the margins, while direct attacks comprise the bulk of the album. Diminished, crippled chords fly from Piggy’s fingers. His strange 6-string shapes prove he’s the only man to ever find the X-sharp and Z-flat chords on a guitar.
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Voivod should have been far more popular than they were in the '80s. Hailing from the remote Quebec city of Jonquiere, home of a huge aluminum factory, the band quickly became the pride and joy of Canadian headbangers, and one of the most respected metal bands among their peers. Their first three albums, War and Pain, Rrroooaaarrr!!!, and Killing Technology were some of the most extreme thrash metal records ever recorded during that decade, combining pure speed, science fiction lyrics, and a hint of progressive rock for a sound that was completely unique in the burgeoning thrash scene. In a stunning stylistic shift in 1988, Voivod eased up on the noise and screaming, and concentrated on melody and song structure, and the two albums that followed, 1988's Dimension Hatross and 1989's masterpiece Nothingface, established the band as one of the most formidable metal acts in the world. Their superb cover of the Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd song "Astronomy Domine" (from Nothingface) even became a minor hit on MTV's Headbanger's Ball. They had a major label deal, they played on a great 1989 tour with Faith No More and Soundgarden, and the possibilities seemed endless.
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Recht unspektakulär, in straightem Old School-Thrash Metal, beginnt das Titelstück "A Beautiful Sickness" von Project: Failing Flesh, bei denen ex-Voivod -Frontmann Eric Forrest am Mikro steht. Das Stück bekommt dann schnell eine grindige Wandlung im Synthesizergewand, welche die zunächst derben Vocals des Songs durch cleanen Gesang ablöst und experimentelle Klangelemente einbindet. Experimentelle Musik wird beim Trio eh groß geschrieben. So kommen neben allerhand Synthesizer-Tunes auch klassische Instrumente zum Einsatz. Wie etwa bei "Planet Dead", welches sehr hypnotisch durch immer wiederkehrende Drumrhythmen auf mich wirkt und die Streicher gekonnt eingesetzt wurden. Nach diesem Endzeitbeginn des Songs schlägt jener schnell in eine heftige Death/Thrash-Nummer um (mit atmosphärischer Orgel mit Mittelteil), die gegen Ende das Anfangsthema wieder aufgreift.
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