Quebec metal innovators VOIVOD have the set release date for their final album featuring guitarist Denis ‘Piggy’ D’Amour. The album Infini will be released on Tuesday, June 23rd in Canada by Sonic Unyon, something we are very excited about as long time fans and supporters of the band. It will also be released the same day stateside in the US by Relapse Records.
The album features that last thirteen songs written by Piggy and again features bassist Jason ‘Jasonic’ Newsted (ex-Metallica). Jason plays bass on all songs and also mixed the album. Infini will be released as a deluxe, digipack CD and will also be issued on vinyl as a double LP. Tracklisting for the album is as follows: God Phones, From The Cave, Earthache, Global Warning, A Room With A V.U., Destroy After Reading, Treasure Chest, Krap Radio, In Orbit, Deathproof, Pyramidome, Morpheus and Volcano.
VOIVOD’s newest record Infini may be their last as VOIVOD. This was a record built from the final songs created by the band with Denis D’Amour aka Piggy. All his original demo guitar tracks appear as they were recorded, no re-amping, no overdubs, just Piggy as he played the tracks he envisioned in his small bachelor apartment, the amp in the bathroom, capturing his performance with the laptop given to him by Jason.
There were many discussions and ideas as to how to complete these recordings of songs that had never been actually performed with the whole band in one room. Drummer Michel ‘Away’ Langevin went into a studio in Montreal with engineer Glen Robinson and tracked his drum parts, and Jason waited anxiously to get the tracks and add his bass which he recorded with Enrique Gonzalez Müller at Fantasy Studios in San Francisco, then Denis ‘Snake’ Belanger tracked his vocals with Glen in Montreal afterwards. Jason and Enrique mixed the record in San Francisco over the holidays and Infini was born.
Truly a collaborative effort, Infini is an album that came together from a respect and belief that these final Voivod songs deserved to be heard. In light of this sentiment, the band agreed to play some summer festivals in 2008 with original bass player Jean-Yves ‘Blacky’ Theriault and fellow Montrealer Dan Mongrain of the band MARTYR on guitar, playing all classic era Voivod material. Dan is a technical wizard on guitar; his own band MARTYR is a well respected extreme prog metal band from Montreal. It was a risky move but the fans and the band were happy with the outcome so much so that this lineup will play more live shows this summer. (Please visit http://www.voivod.net for all dates.) Snake summed it up this way, “If we don’t play live again then the songs die with Piggy and he wouldn’t want that, his genius deserves to be heard by new and life long fans.”
Jason Newsted is still a member of VOIVOD and one day there may be live shows performing the songs from the last three records that Jason was very much a part of (Voivod, Katorz and Infini). Currently the band is working on a short clip on the making of Infini.
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I just want to say Hell-O,I'm waiting for the new DVD \m/
.......and i think it is a very good idea to release a 4-5 or 6 (from my side it could be more ;-)) vinyl Box set with live songs from Angel Rat, The Outer Limits,Negatron and Phobos plus some songs from the newer release,maybe you find some stuff what you never played live, or not so often played for example "FORGOTTEN IN SPACE"!!! - "Lost Machine" Think about it,you would make some Die Hard Fans very Lucky
....and i would donate for it!!!!!!!!
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A song from our upcoming album, Dementia and Filth, titled Storming Corporeal Temples has been added to our profile. Also we have a different song from the album on reverbnation called insignifiCUNT, you can also listen to that song on our web page bastardband.net
We thank you for the add. We’re just a small band, but we’d be delighted if you listened to our Garage Rock songs and you sent us any kind of comment!! If u couldn’t we’ll be happy if you just let this comment be shown, so that ur fans & friends get to know us. ☠
I loved your music since my then Jr High self first got the War & Pain cassette. It was just so rough & raw, & I wanted more. When I made my first attempts to play metal, you motivated me to just be myself. I was scoffed at by the wanna be Metallica clones of the day, but I laughed them off You have your sound & style that no other band can take from you. BTW, I love the work jason newstead did on the recent albums.
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"(…)you will get a reggae(!) style version of Blackened, a Latin dance mix of The Unforgiven with brass and stuff, a piano swing tune of King Nothing, as well as more beautiful acoustic versions like the contest winner track (Motorbreath). Besides, the singer is excellent." (metalblog.eu)
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