KSSU Loud Rock director
Daniel Cordova recently conducted an interview with Canadian metal innovators
VOIVOD. You can now stream the chat using the
SoundCloud player below.
VOIVOD will release its new album,
"Target Earth", on January 22, 2013 (one day earlier internationally) via
VOIVOD's own company,
Iron Gang Factory, and
Century Media. The CD was recorded in January at
Pierre Rémillard's (
OBLIVEON,
CRYPTOPSY,
KRISIUN,
MISERY INDEX)
Wild Studio in a small town called St-Zénon in Quebec, Canada and was mixed by
Sanford Parker (
PELICAN,
NACHTMYSTIUM). The follow-up to 2009's
"Infini" will contain the band's first music to be written with new guitarist
Daniel "Chewy" Mongrain (
MARTYR) following the passing of original axeman
Denis "Piggy" D'Amour in 2005. The original art was once again drawn by
VOIVOD drummer
Michel "Away" Langevin and features color schemes from each one of the band's previous albums. The effort will be available as a CD, gatefold double vinyl and a limited edition deluxe box set.
Regarding what the new
VOIVOD songs sound like,
Mongrain said in an interview, "As a
VOIVOD fan since I am 12 years old and early rise of
VOIVOD in late '80s and everything, I think… I'm in conflict of interest right now. [
laughs] I like the old stuff as much as the new stuff, so I think it's a blend of everything. It's really a team work and
Blacky [
Jean-Yves Thériault] is back on the 'blower bass' — he's got the original sound — and we're having a blast jamming. I think it's working pretty good."
On the topic of the lyrical themes covered in the new
VOIVOD tracks, singer
Denis "Snake" Bélanger said, "The song we played [on the early 2012 European tour] [
'Kaleidos'] is about conspiracy involving drugs and the
FBI… [Laughs] It's hard to describe because we're kind of early in the process. There's another song called
'Target Earth', which is more like a spacy, conspiracy, controlling the information around the world. The main thing is the 'war' of information. You know, somebody
Osama Bin Laden is dead, someone [else] says he's not… It gets to a point where everybody has his own story and nobody is sure what the truth is. There's people above everything controlling the information."
Interview:
"Mechanical Mind" (new song) studio version (audio stream):
