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Voivod go horn rock at the Montreal Jazz Festival!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk4-Zz1pqf4

This is so great - thanks for posting!

holy shit third stream metal

Listened to Killing Technology for the first time this week. Fucking glorious. Best first listen I've had in an age.

Has these reissues + new album made them bigger/getting their due?

I'm not a complete catalog listener or up to date on Voivod's new record, but their EP from a couple years ago called "Post Society" is a good record. It's got lots of weird angle riffing and they are just so tight and smooth playing those jagged melodies. Voivod have always had some real unique groove to them.

I think The Wake is better than Post Society but with more of a down vibe, but I love the King Crimson-esque riffing in the title track and the general progginess. But there are no bad Voivod albums IMO.

I'd be curious as to whether those reissues had any effect on their standing, I feel like they probably mostly sold to older fans who wanted the live tracks and demo stuff.

Post Society was good yeah, but I'm definitely a Wake man.

but yeah. they were fun to see live playing the new album earlier this year.

I've been listening to the self titled one and a live record called Lives I found used in the past few days. Voivod have done so many sounds, many in the same tune. There are parts that are doom, parts that are prog and hard psychedelic edge to it.

One side-group from Voivod that I have heard and dug is that Kosmos CD, which is pretty 70s inspired spacerock in a Hawkwind/Krautrock way.

Voivod is definitely a band I'd eventually like to hear it all.

Listened to The Wake, RRROOOAAARRR, Katorz and Phobos last night and thoroughly enjoyed them all.

I've been making my way through the Voivod discography discography and I can't help but feel a weird kinship btwn them and NoMeansNo, and kind of conceptualize them as the metal equivalent - not just the Canadian aspect or their respective longevity, but something about the unfussy production and focus on musicianship and attitude, while lacking self-seriousness (though Voivod were never nearly as jokey as NMN at their wackiest)

maybe it's just hinting at an overall canadian sensibility I have yet to fully diagnose

they both have great churning deep cuts called "The Tower", too

Canadian bands and good ass bass tones 🤷

"There is only one solution
Eat them one by one!"

Great lyric. Really love this album, it's not just the album that I wanted from Voivod, it's what I wanted from Sonic Youth (I always thought they had similar moments, probably shared influences).

Anyone know if/when a next batch of reissues are coming out? I want Angel Rat this year.

The reissues were all Noise Records releases and the later ones were on Mechanic and MCA IIRC? I would love reissues/remasters but I'm not holding my breath.

The 2018 Nothingface and Angel Rat are both Japanese? I probably go with that.

Oh I didn't see those. Yeah I'd be curious to hear them.

There's bits of interview with Away and recommended albums by two other bands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLspqksXfxo

don't know if this is already well known but the (mostly instrumental) prog-punk band Removal did a bunch of singles with different singers on them including Snake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPK-zg706hs

It's from like 2005 so apologies if I'm late

Really digging The Wake

It's really good! I love the King Crimson touches on some of the riffs.

yeah that was one of my favorite releases that year. and the material is great live too.

Second last track is my favorite so far

Rrroooaaarrr really surpassed my expectations, there's a part in the last track where they sound like a force of nature, incredible.

I'm sure I heard Nothingface and Angel Rat were getting another reissue after master tapes were found? (am I imagining this?) Only LPs were released so far.

I've never heard their first three albums in their entirety because the songs that made it to the Best of Voivod compilation sounded really unformed compared to Dimension Hatröss.
I wonder if I didn't know that they were from Québec whether their music would sound as wintery to me as it does.

master tapes found?

wiki sez:

The master tapes for Voivod's MCA-era albums were long thought to have been destroyed in the 2008 Universal Studios fire; this was later disputed by Blacky, who revealed in late 2019 that the master tapes for Nothingface, Angel Rat and The Outer Limits were located in a facility in Pennsylvania, after persistently questioning Universal staff, and claimed that they are now in his possession.[24][25]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voivod_(band)

I'll wait patiently for Angel Rat, assuming it will eventually get the reissue treatment the early albums got.

I think Killing Technology is absolutely as good or better than the next two albums. I think I might like Rrroooaaarrr more than Nothingface but maybe I need to return to the latter.

just announced a US tour. but I don't think I can go. sucks as they're a great live band (and a great band in general)

early Voivod is def underrated. people undersell it sometimes because it's very diff from what became their signature sound but I dig it all, esp Rrrrrooooar

kinda like the early stuff the best… i wonder if jack rabid has heard angel rat or nothingface, they really don’t seem far away from the muscular atmospheric post punk thing he likes.

There's just so many great pummeling moments on Rrroooaaarrr, the way the band talked about it I expected an immature work but they are extremely good songs

From Real Gone Music, reissues of Nothingface and Angel Rat:

Voïvod are nothing short of a legend in their native province of Quebec, and remain one of the most intriguing metal bands ever. Though their early, mid-‘80s albums pegged them as a thrash metal band, within five years their sound had changed dramatically, incorporating elements of prog and psych while maintaining the tricky chord changes and tempo shifts that made them such a fresh voice in the genre. And these two records were key to their stylistic transition; 1989’s Nothingface scaled a commercial peak for the band, and heralded their new direction with a cover of Pink Floyd’s “Astronomy Domine.” Our metallic red pressing marks the first time this essential record has been widely available at retail on vinyl since its original release…grab it while you can! Its follow-up, 1991’s Angel Rat, moved the band further into spacy psychedelic territory with such tracks as "Golem" and the title track. A mesmerizing, moody head trip of a record, produced by Terry Brown of Rush fame and originally only released on vinyl in europe. Metallic blue pressing. Both records have been remastered for vinyl by Peter Moore, and sound spectacular. Good for either cranking your speakers or burrowing deep inside your headphones!

listening to Synchro Anarchy right now, this is really good!

Yeah their last two have been magnificent. Just pros doing what they love and very well