VOIVOD: Photos, First Video Footage From HEAVY MTL Festival Posted Online

June 23, 2008

Canada's pioneering metal band VOIVOD, whose last performance took place on July 30, 2003 in Florida during that summer's Ozzfest tour, made its trimphant return to the stage yesterday (Sunday, June 22) in front of 22,500 fans as part of the Heavy MTL festival at Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The group was joined by original bass player Jean-Yves Theriault ("Blacky") for the first time in 17 years. Dan Mongrain from the Quebec band MARTYR, a good friend of the band, played guitar. Songs from the early catalogue were the focus for the Heavy MTL set, including VOIVOD's cover of the PINK FLOYD classic "Astronomy Domine", which closed the show before the band took a bow center stage and shared a group hug.

Fan-filmed video footage of VOIVOD performing its signature song "Voivod" at the Heavy MTL festival can be viewed below.

Check out photos at HeavyMTL.com. A couple of the pictures are being displayed below.

Drummer Michel "Away" Langevin of VOIVOD was a guest on the May 2, 2008 edition of "The Metal File" program on Montreal's CHOM-FM.

You can now listen to the interview in streaming audio at this location.

Jason Newsted is still very much part of the VOIVOD family and is working with the band on the new record along with Jean-Yves Theriault and Eric Forrest. However, Newsted is unable to perform live at this point.

As previously reported, VOIVOD will enter the studio to record its final album using songs left behind by founding guitarist Denis "Piggy" D'Amour, who died in August 2005 from colon cancer.

VOIVOD won the "Best Metal/Hardcore Album" award for their 2006 LP "Katorz" last September at the annual Quebec Independent Music Awards (GAMIQ) in Montreal, Quebec. Other nominees were GHOULUNATICS ("Cryognie"),UNEXPECT ("In A Flesh Aquarium"),ANONYMUS ("Chapter Chaos Begins"),and LES KORCHS ("Les korchs").

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