VOIVOD Drummer Interviewed By METAL ASSAULT (Audio)
August 10, 2011On August 9, Aniruddh "Andrew" Bansal of Metal Assault conducted an interview with drummer Michel "Away" Langevin of Canadian metal innovators VOIVOD. You can now listen to the 11-minute chat below.
In a recent interview with Exclaim.ca, Away stated about the new VOIVOD live album, "Warriors Of Ice", featuring three-fourths of the band's classic lineup Langevin, bassist Jean-Yves "Blacky" Thriault and vocalist Denis "Snake" Blanger along with new guitarist Daniel Mongrain, "I feel like it's an achievement because there was a point where we weren't sure if there was going to be a new VOIVOD album. It's not a studio album but still something we're very proud of. It's good vintage VOIVOD. . . There was never really a live album with Snake and Blacky since the one before was us as a trio with [ex-bassist/vocalist] Eric Forrest. So, yeah, it's refreshing to have an album with almost the original lineup involved."
Regarding upcoming VOIVOD releases, Away stated, "There are no professional [unreleased] recordings in the vaults [with late VOIVOD guitarist Denis "Piggy" D'Amour], but we are re-releasing a few albums in the upcoming months with bonus live material from the '80s."
On the topic of VOIVOD's forthcoming studio album, the first without the contributions of Piggy, Away said, "We have four songs completed and about five other ones in progress and it's more in the progressive metal vein, so it's reminiscent of the 'Dimension Hatross' era. We hope to record in the fall and have a new album out in the spring of 2012, so before the end of the world."
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