![]() ![]() ![]() Piggy‘s guitar was a less noisy attack compared to the Forrest era, with a slight bit heavier edge than The Outer Limits‘ tones and Away found had found his tom drums again! The song was raunchy rock n’roll tinged with a punkish twang thrown in for good measure – very catchy and very instant, and a much different approach from the just about chorus-free Phobos material. Snake was awkward and weird vocally, Newsted, known now as Jasonic‘s, bass rumbled and cut right through. Gasmask Revival was my first dose of this era of Voivod and I fell in love with it from the get go. The band made all the proper press releases about the formation and soon was releasing their tenth record simply titled Voivod on Newsted’s own label Chophouse Records. But Snake is the singer for Voivod and he was needed back. It was a very catchy punk-like thing that was indeed cool. I knew Snake had also been doing a band called Union Made and got hold of the single. I have asked Snake twice over the last twenty years and he laughs and doesn’t answer me). I had heard he was doing a taco stand in Canada (I’m not sure if that was true or not. I was sad! very fucking sad! Then out of the blue I heard through the grapevine that Snake (vocals) was coming back to the band and Voivod was carrying on. After the awful van accident in 1998 that injured band member Eric Forrest (bass/vocals), rumour was the band was done. Receiving a tape of a project band, ir8, that he had done about seven years earlier out of the blue from an old pen pal from his days in Flotsam and Jetsam with a short letter saying he was jamming with Voivod, I kinda knew Jason Newsted was joining the band in 2001. ![]()
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