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VOIVOD: New CD Sampler Makes The Rounds

A limited-edition three-song VOIVOD CD sampler, containing the tracks "Gasmask Revival", "Rebel Robot", and "We Carry On", was recently sent out to select media/press contacts as well as fans that signed up for the Chophouse Records message board. The tracks — which are being described as "picking u...

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JASON NEWSTED: 'New VOIVOD Is Best Album I've Ever Been Part Of'

Former METALLICA and current VOIVOD bassist Jason Newsted (a.k.a. Jasonic) has posted the following message via the Chophouse Records web site: "Howdy Friends - OK - WHEW!! We have been super busy...the whirlwind has begun. Since I last posted here in the last week of November, tons of great things...

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JASON NEWSTED: 'VOIVOD Can Kick METALLICA's Ass'

Despite his previous statements to the contrary, ex-METALLICA bassist Jason Newsted — currently a full-time member of VOIVOD — is no longer available to return to his former group. "It would only happen if [METALLICA frontman] James [Hetfield] called me and asked me, or came to the house and asked m...

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METALLICA To Play England's DONINGTON PARK

METALLICA are lining up a headlining show at Donington Park, U.K. on Jun. 1, 2003, Kerrang! magazine has reported. This would be the band's first U.K. appearance since they headlined the Big Day Out at Milton Keyes Bowl on Jul. 10, 1999. The show is rumored to be part of a six-week European tour, wh...

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VOIVOD Hit MTV News!

While in New York City last week mastering "The Multiverse", VOIVOD sat down with Iann Robinson from MTV to film interview footage for a news segment about former METALLICA bassist Jason Newsted's involvement with the group. Scheduled air times for the segment are as follows (all times PST): MTV Thu...

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VOIVOD: Fake Demos Hit The 'Net

A four-song recording purported to be pre-production demos for the forthcoming VOIVOD album currently making the rounds on the Internet is in fact a promotional tape recorded back in 1995 by a U.K. group called COLLAPSE. The band, who broke up shortly after the demo was recorded, cited VOIVOD and CO...

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Former VOIVOD Frontman To Sing On PROJECT: FAILING FLESH Debut

Former VOIVOD and current E-FORCE bassist/vocalist Eric Forrest will collaborate with Tim Gutierrez (instruments) and Kevin 131 (instruments, producer) in a brand new band called PROJECT: FAILING FLESH. Forrest, who is set to guest on the next solo album from Yugoslav guitar hero Borislav Mitic, wil...

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VOIVOD's JASON NEWSTED: New Album Sounds Like Mixture Of METALLICA And VOIVOD

The forthcoming VOIVOD CD, "The Multiverse", sounds "exactly like METALLICA meets VOIVOD," according to former METALLICA and current VOIVOD bassist Jason Newsted, who has just finished mixing the album for a tentative Mar. 4, 2003 release. "I have retained the distortion, the constant bass distortio...

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VOIVOD Drummer Guests On PARADISE Debut

VOIVOD drummer Michel Langevin (a.k.a. Away) and ex-SWORD guitarist Mike Plant are among the musicians that have contributed to the debut album from Montreal-based "volcanic rock" act PARADISE. Titled "Rock Anthropologists On The Kon-Tiki Voyage", the CD was mixed and mastered in New York by veteran...

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GN'R, BRIDES OF DESTRUCTION, AUDIOSLAVE, VOIVOD, KREATOR Endorse INFERNAL COMBUSTION

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Members of many top hard rock and heavy metal bands have united to endorse heavy metal parody webzine Infernal Combustion, sources revealed today. "When you're tired of reading every burp and fart from our studio diary, IC is a fun diversion," comments VOIVOD bassist "Jasonic"...

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VOIVOD: Three Days Away From Completing 'The Multiverse'

VOIVOD — vocalist Snake (a.k.a. Denis Belanger),guitarist Piggy (a.k.a. Denis D'Amour),drummer Away (a.k.a. Michel Langevin),and Jasonic (a.k.a. ex-METALLICA bassist Jason Newsted) — are three days away from having completed the mixing process for the group's new album, "The Multiverse", at Sausa...

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JASON NEWSTED: I Have Always Aspired To Play Bass In VOIVOD

Former METALLICA and current VOIVOD bassist Jason Newsted has admitted that he has harbored a secret desire to join the latter group for several years — long before his much-publicized split with Hetfield and co. in January 2001. "I guess, over the years at different times, it was always a secret, t...

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Ex-VOIVOD Bassist BLACKY: I Have No Interest In Joining Another Metal Band

Former VOIVOD bassist Jean-Yves Thériault (a.k.a. Blacky) had an amazing time performing with the Quebec-based "all-star" thrash metal tribute band BLACK CLOUD at Thrashback Festival in Montreal on Nov. 9. "Man that was so fun, almost too much [so]," Blacky told Voivodfan.com. "Perhaps I will start...

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JASON NEWSTED: 'I Would Have Rejoined METALLICA'

Former METALLICA and current VOIVOD bassist Jason Newsted would have rejoined the San Franciscan metal superstars "in a fucking heartbeat" had frontman James Hetfield invited him to contribute to METALLICA's eighth studio album. "James and I had a really good sit-down back in February this year," Ne...

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JASON NEWSTED To Record Bass Solo For New VOIVOD CD

VOIVOD's forthcoming album, "The Multiverse", will feature a bass solo by the group's newest addition, former METALLICA bassist Jason Newsted (a.k.a. Jasonic). The following is Newsted's latest "VOIVOD Studio Diary" entry as it appears on the Chophouse Records web site: "Big day for me today. Lots o...