![]() How did Erik Forrest come into the picture? Was he in any bands beforehand and how well do you think he does in playing older Voivod songs, the more psychedelic ones in particular?Īway: He came into the picture because we wanted to replace both Snake and Blacky with one guy….we really wanted to be a power trio, and we mentioned it to our agent. Of course there’s been a lot of frustration, but it’s also a throwback to the early aggressiveness, with the weird chords and thrashing guitars and a little paranoia in the music, and stuff like that. It the aggression presented here a result of all the hassles the band has dealt with in the last five years or is it just a return to your roots?Īway: It’s been a little of both. The new LP Negatron sees the heaviest, most angry Voivod material since 1987’s Dimension Hatross. I very much would like to do another Voivod interview, time will tell. This interview, of drummer Away, took place in 1996 shortly after the release of their album Negatron. When I saw this surreal painting on Philip’s floor I had to go out and get the CD Nothingface right away, and from then on I have been obsessed with the obscure concepts and music of Voivod. In 1990 my friend Philip had painted a huge replica(on his floor) of the surreal Voivod, the hopelessly lost character that has crept through many of the band Voivod’s albums since their inception in the early 1980’s. As a youth, well before I had discovered metal I remember seeing ads in the paper for the local club and seeing this band with the strange name who were playing, and it stoked my curiosity many years before I had even heard their music. ![]() VOIVOD are a band I found out by accident. ![]() ![]() This interview originally appeared at (which is now defunct) ![]()
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