VOIVOD – Summer European/UK Tour Dates

VOIVOD have announced European/UK dates for June with more touring planned for the fall. Here are the confirmed dates:

6/08 Hamburg, GER – Logo
6/09 Solvesborg, SWE – Sweden Rock
6/11 Goes, NET – Podium ‘T Beest
6/12 Aalst, BEL – Cirque Mystic
6/13 Norwich, UK – Waterfront
6/14 Glasgow, UK – Audio
6/15 Newcastle, UK – Riverside
6/16 Leeds, UK – Temple Of Boom
6/18 London, UK – Underworld
6/19 Essen, GET – Turock

Anomaly. Seminal. Iconoclasts. A “band’s band”. These are the nebulous words that sum up a group of artists now in their third decade of collaboration and creation. These terms are yokes that Voivod must bear. Yet there is a purity in this fate that will live forever.

What were the odds in the first place? Four young men in Quebec, addled by art, high on hash, fueled by Venom and Motorhead. Post-heavy metal, pre-MTV. The 80s were upon them and the threat of nuclear war seemed almost inevitable. Why not live out the endtimes sipping absinthe, writing music, and donning leather and spikes?

Michel Langevin conceived a universe, a character, an anti-hero; The Voivod. Dressed in fanciful garb woven by Bram Stoker and Stanley Kubrick, the Voivod was a vampire lord in a post-nuclear age. Immortal and unstoppable. The ultimate goal of any artist. Michel chose to take on the powers of his creation by breathing life into the Voivod’s universe. By creating a musical vehicle for the Voivod’s saga. By starting a garage band.

Denis D’amour provided the music. The young man nicknamed “Piggy” composed a debut album of brutal power, metallic ferocity, mad jazz-shifts, and brash noise. He also began to develop an almost lunatic style with his chords, solos, and tones that combined the technicality of Robert Fripp with the lumbering heaviness of Tony Iommi.

Piggy worked hard to develop “Away”, “Blacky”, and “Snake” into a formidable unit. And he succeeded. Local shows and early tape trading led to interest from labels as far away as Los Angeles. Brian Slagel used his independent label Metal Blade to discover and develop important underground artists like Metallica, Slayer, Celtic Frost, …and Voivod.

Source: The PRP

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