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Voivod News around
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SIRIUS
Hard Attack Beams VOIVOD's PIGGY Into Space - Aug. 30, 2005
Blabbermouth, 30 August 2005
VOIVOD
To Complete New Album As A Tribute To Fallen Guitarist
Blabbermouth, 29 August 2005
VOIVOD
Drummer: 'It Will Be A Hard Task For Me To Cope' With PIGGY's Passing
Blabbermouth, 29 August 2005
Voivod Guitarist Denis "Piggy" D'Amour Dead Of Colon Cancer
Blabbermouth, 27 August 2005
Jason
Newsted Joins Little Kid Rock Board
Undercover Music News, 15 January 2004
Jason Newsted Leaves Ozzy Osbourne
MTV, December 04, 2003
Voivod Poster Art
Weekly Dig, Boston, August 12, 2003
Feeling
Lucky about 13
Canoe News, June 12 2003
Newsted
pulls double duty
Canoe News, June 6 2003
Legend
rocked the Saddledome
Canoe News, Jun 5, 2003
Ozzy
Ignores Sars Scare And Hits Canada...
Teen Music, May 31 2003 11:03AM ET
Voivod's Jason Newsted Hospitalized, Misses First Show In 17 Years...
antiMUSIC, Apr 23 2003 0:15AM ET
Newsted:
'It'll Be Great To Tour With Ozzy'...
Metal Hammer, Apr 22 2003 3:19PM ET
Sepultura
and Voivod hook up for spring outing...
LiveDaily, Apr 18 2003 11:01PM ET
Metal
bassists recycled...
dotmusic, Mar 20 2003 9:46AM ET
Ozzy
Compares Newsted To Geezer Butler, Wants To Record LP...
MTV Mar 19 2003 12:11PM ET
Ozzy
Meets Metallica...
Rolling Stone, Mar 19 2003 1:16AM ET
Ozzy
Recruits Voivod And Finger Eleven For Canadian Tour...
ChartAttack.com, Mar 5 2003 0:17AM ET
Ozzy
And Metallica To Swap Bassists?...
ChartAttack.com, Feb 28 2003 0:16AM ET
Reborn
Voivod Have Second Thoughts About Space Spider Idea...
MTV, Jan 30 2003 1:16AM ET
Jason
Newsted Says His New Band Can Kick Metallica's Ass...
MTV, Dec 21 2002 2:22PM ET
Newsted Says Voivod Singer 'Like Yoda'...
ChartAttack.com, Nov 30 2002 0:14AM ET
Jason
Newsted Officially Joins Voivod...
ChartAttack.com, Oct 10 2002 3:13AM ET
Newsted Joins Voivod...
Rolling Stone, Oct 10 2002 1:31AM ET |
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May 10, 2008
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April
30th 2008
VOIVOD to play live for first time in 5 years
VOIVOD, who last performed live on July 30th,
2003 during OzzFest in Florida, will return to the
stage on June 22nd, 2008 as part of the Heavy MTL Festival in
Montreal ( http://www.heavymtl.com
)
The
band has issued an update regarding their upcoming live appearances.
"A lot has happened since the band's last live appearance.
The band had taken time off to begin writing what would become
the album Katorz. In April 2005 while the new album was in progress,
guitarist Denis 'Piggy' D'Amour became ill before recording
began and sadly died of colon cancer. It took awhile to recover
from the sudden passing of Denis before Michel 'Away' Langevin,
Denis 'Snake' Belanger and Jason 'Jasonic' Newsted could begin
to assemble the songs from the demos and create Katorz.
Discussions of a tribute show and possible guitar players for
it followed, yet it just did not seem right to perform without
Denis, but time does help heal wounds and this summer Voivod
feel it is time to perform the music Denis helped create once
more.
On June 22, Voivod will perform in Montreal as part of the
Heavy MTL festival and July 26th, 2008 in Calgary for the
Monsters of Rock festival
( http://www.monstersofrockfestival.com
) with original bass player Jean-Yves Theriault ('Blacky')
for the first time in 17 years.
Dan
Mongrain from the Quebec band Martyr, a good friend of the
band, will play guitar. Songs from the early catalogue will
be the focus for these short festival sets. Jason Newsted
is still very much part of the Voivod family and is working
with the band on the new record (also constructed from the
2004 demos) along with Jean-Yves Theriault and Eric Forrest.
However, Newsted is unable to perform live at this point.
Denis
and Michel are determined to play more shows in the future
to celebrate Denis 'Piggy' D'Amour's legacy. Stay tuned
February
13 2008
Voivod to complete final record:
There remain
13 songs that Denis D'Amour (Piggy) had written with the band
that have yet to be recorded. Michel Langevin (Away) and Denis
Belanger (Snake) will track the last songs this spring bringing
all the past and present members together to participate in
a homage to the guitar legend of Piggy and the legacy of 25
years of a brotherhood forged by exploring metal, rock and punk
ethics with an other worldly premise. Jean-Yves Theriault (Blacky)
and Eric Forrest (E Force) have eagerly agreed to contribute
bass tracks along with Jason Newsted (Jasonic). The End records
and Nuclear Blast will release this final record once completed.
Voivod may play select shows after the release as a thank you
to the fans and to bring closure to a great career.
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Metal
Blade records has re-released War and Pain with two extra
CDs of bonus material.
More info
here
Project:
Failing Flesh interview here
Watch the new 9GB video for 'We Carry on' here
US fans order the new voivod
album here
Canadian fans order the new voivod
album here
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