Full Metal Jackie Launches Special Guitar Giveaway Today the coordinators of SHOCKWAVE FESTIVAL TOUR 2012 announce four new dates in the inaugural North American takeover : Calgary, Amityville, Columbus, and Joliet. See updated itinerary below. Established to give metal fans a lower cost festival option this season, SHOCKWAVE FESTIVAL TOUR…
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VOIVOD Confirmed For Montreal’s Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival
VOIVOD has been confirmed for Montreal’s Suoni Per Il Popolo which will run from June 6 to 23. The festival – celebrating its 12th year – presents Liberation music to audiences in Montréal, Québec, according to a press release. “Liberation music is inspired by freedom of expression, improvisation, and sonic…
VOIVOD – Away Talks About New Album!
VOIVOD drummer Michel “Away” Langevin has checked in with a new video called Optical Vortex – Episode One. During the clip he says that the band are continuing writing new material and are expected to record in January, with hopes to release a new album in the summer of 2012…
VOIVOD – To The Death 84 Demo Of ‘Iron Gang’ Online
Back in September, VOIVOD revealed plans to release their original demo tape from 1984. Titled To The Death 84, the album was recorded in the band’s Quebec jam space in January of 1984. The lineup for this record includes Snake (Denis Bélanger) on vocals, Piggy (Denis D’Amour) on guitar, Blacky…
Roadburn – Tillburg Holland
ROADBURN FESTIVAL TILBURG HOLLAND 013 and Mid Theatre The 12th – 15th of April Article and pics by Arto Lehtinen Once again it is April and time to return to the Roadburn festival in Tillburg, Holland. The line-up for 2011 looked absolutely awesome in every aspect. A few of…
VOIVOD Launch Warriors Of Ice Live Album
Canadian metallers VOIVOD have launched Warriors Of Ice, a live album recorded in Montreal. The album is now available digitally and the physical release date is set for June 14th via Indica Records. This unique band who over the years have been able to create their own sound and path,…
VOIVOD To Release Live Album, New Studio CD This Year
Drummer Michel “Away” Langevin of Canadian metal innovators VOIVOD tells myTELUS in a new interview that the band is planning on releasing a live album and a new studio CD in 2011. In addition, the group is scheduled “to tour in Chile, USA, Europe and Russia.” VOIVOD will take part…
VOIVOD confirmed for 70000TONS OF METAL!
While the ship is steaming North through the St George’s Channel into the Irish Sea, they received more news from their North American scouting party: After they were released from custody they went to Montréal, Canada. How could they not pick up VOIVOD before proceeding South again? 70000TONS OF METAL, The World’s Biggest…
VOIVOD Members Contribute to ‘MEAN DEVIATION: Four Decades of Progressive Heavy Metal’
Bazillion Points Books is proud to announce the late 2010 release of ‘MEAN DEVIATION: Four Decades of Progressive Heavy Metal’, by Jeff Wagner-a former editor of Metal Maniacs magazine and veteran supporter of metal’s most risk-taking bands. Wagner analyzes the heady side of metal in this exhaustive history of a…
VoiVod – Live In Montreal, Canada – December 12, 2009 Club Soda
VoiVod – Live In Montreal, Canada December 12, 2009 Club Soda Live Review and pics by Geneviève Hamel 10 years! That’s what it took to Voïvod to play a headlining concert again in their adoptive hometown of Montreal! That’s quite long but it’s not that unusual in this case, the…
Jalometalli 2009
The Jalometalli Open Air Metal festival has gained its status as well as place on the Finnish festival map. Although there are plenty of metal oriented festivals arranged all around in Finland, the Jalometalli festival has found its own style and approach in the metal festival offering in…
VoiVod – Michel “Away” Langevin
Interview by Arto Lehtinen and Timo Hanhirova Pics by Arto Lehtinen Transcripted by Antaura Zed The legendary Canadian Voivod have been crisscrossing Europe during the summer of 2009 doing a number of festival dates. The four piece made their first and highly anticipated visit to Finland at…
From Hell’s Heart – Giving Up The Ghost (April 2009)
From Hell’s Heart: April 2009 "Giving Up The Ghost" In most cases, no one likes to run down another’s hard work. Whether or not someone “likes” what a musician has laid down is entirely subjective and varies from person to person, but a critic’s job is to defragment and spout…
E-FORCE – Vocalist and basist Eric Forrest (ex-Voivod)
Eric Forrest – Vocalist and basist of E-Force Interview by Luxi Lahtinen Live pictures by Eva Tristessa (Stormblast) Eric Forrest, whom many remember from his days spent fronting the legendary Voivod, and replacing Snake, has got his own band E-Force going on. E-Force relies more on a straight-forward thrash sound; the…
VoiVod – Snake (Denis Belanger)
VoiVod – Vocalist, Snake (Denis Belanger)Interviewed by EvilGInterview Questions by EvilG and ArtoTranscribed by EvilG It must be hard for VoiVod to talk about the painful topic of Piggy’s death and to continue the band without him (Denis “Piggy” D’Amour passed away on August 26, 2005 due to cancer). Despite…