{"id":423,"date":"2024-03-03T20:15:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T20:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=423"},"modified":"2024-03-24T20:16:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T20:16:44","slug":"canadas-longest-running-and-most-enduring-prog-metal-punk-band-voivod-to-descend-on-the-uc-theatre-march-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=423","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s longest-running and most enduring prog metal\/punk band, VOIVOD, to descend on the UC Theatre. March\u00a09."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Canada\u2019s Voivod have enjoyed the kind of career most musical acts would envy. For the uninitiated, this Canadian quartet plays a heady blend of metal and punk with psychedelic overtones while employing both complex and odd arrangements. At present, Voivod is still led by founding members drummer \/ artist Michel Langevin aka Away and vocalist Denis B\u00e9langer aka Snake along with guitarist Daniel Mongrain aka Chewy, and bassist Dominic Laroche aka Rocky.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Already huge influences on such disparate musical acts as Ryan Adams (he dedicated his album \u2018Orion\u2019 to late guitarist Dennis D\u2019Amour), Tool, Soundgarden (band has dedicated songs to them and opened for them on their Louder Than Love tour), Mr. Bungle, Mastodon, Isis, Metallica, Dream Theater, Darkthrone, ALL, The Young Gods and countless others. They were also once hand-picked by Rush to open their Canadian dates and have headlined over Faith No More, Slayer, Exodus and many others.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rather than being confined to one specific genre and struggling to come up with new and innovative ideas, the Voivod machine have always boldly broke musical boundaries with reckless aplomb. And while there were some obvious hiccups along the way \u2013 1991\u2019s \u2018Angel Rat\u2019 and 1993\u2019s \u2018The Outer Limits\u2019 being the most obvious \u2013 it was those very musical choices which ultimately defined the band.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their latest and 16th record, \u2018Morg\u00f6th Tales,\u2019 features 11 songs and should cater to longtime fans and newbies alike. Featuring 1 new song (title track), re-recorded versions of classics, and deeper Voivod cuts, their 2023 offering seems like the perfect promotional piece for a band who has successfully endured myriad musical landscape shifts.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Said singer Snake in an interview with The Moshville Times about the latest record and its inherent challenges, \u201cIt was really fun to do. First you realize how time flies, but for some of those songs it was like opening a treasure chest \u2013 they were buried for so long! There\u2019s great memories of the first song that we ever recorded (\u201cCondemned to the Gallows\u201d) \u2013 I lost the lyrics! I was expecting someone on the internet might have them but I looked and there was nothing about that song. I was desperate because the music was already recorded and I was freaking out because on the original recording, I can\u2019t hear what I was saying and I can\u2019t recall what I was singing about because it was all screams and the definition is not really clear. I thought, \u201cmaybe my mum has it because she\u2019s way more organized than I am\u201d, so I called my sister and said, \u201ccan you go and see mum and see if she has\u2026,\u201d and I gave her the title. Then she called me back and said, \u201cYeah. It took two minutes to find it!\u201d It\u2019s like \u2013 file 36, second drawer and there you go! It was my handwriting \u2013 the only copy in the world!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their 42nd anniversary tour kicked off already in late February in Ohio and makes its way to the East Bay before finally winding down in late March in Pennsylvania. If their set list is any indicator, the upcoming show will feature songs both well-known and obscure with an emphasis on their \u2018Nothingface\u2019 record as well as earlier fare.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Voivod headline the UC Theatre located at 2036 University Avenue in Berkeley. Special guests include Prong, Hirax and Abominous: The Final Godsend. Doors open at 7pm and the show kicks off promptly at 8pm. Advance tickets are $35 and can be purchased here at\u00a0theuctheatre.org.<\/a>\u00a0All ages are welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Canada\u2019s Voivod have enjoyed the kind of career most musical acts would envy. For the uninitiated, this Canadian quartet plays a heady blend of metal and punk with psychedelic overtones while employing both complex and odd arrangements. At present, Voivod is still led by founding members drummer \/ artist Michel Langevin aka Away and vocalist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}