Interview with Away of Voivod
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0:00 - Intro
01:04 - Being creative under the Quarantine
02:23 - New album
04:33 - Artwork influences, 3 new artbooks
06:29 - Favorite band/album?
07:02 - Re-release of Nothingface/Angel Rat/ The Outer Limits?
09:24 - Angel Rat
12:02 - In touch with former Voivod members?
13:24 - The name of the band
14:27 - The origins of the Voivod concept
18:26 - Lovecraft influence?
21:47 - Movies that inspired the Voivod concept
24:35 - Cyberpunk Influences
25:25 - Survival of the Fittest
26:34 - The Voivod concept on first five albums
28:32 - The characters of the Voivod universe
33:41 - West Berlin
35:41 - Cockroaches and Too Scared to Scream lyrics
37:25 - Neuromancer influence?
38:20 - Comic book artist, Voivod comic book?
40:13 - Nothingface comic book
41:15 - Phobos concept song by song
45:48 - M-Body song + Tar Rat
48:41 - The seventh chapter of the Voivod saga
56:32 - Unreleased Voivod recordings with Piggy?
59:23 - Insect video
1:01:47 - Coronavirus
1:04:25 - 3 upcoming books
1:07:11 - The fear of nuclear, biological and chemical warfare
1:10:08 - Last words...
Minions! At last! We did our 3rd interview with Mr. Michel "Away" Langevin of Voivod. This time, I wanted to get as much information from Away about the 7 chapters of Voivod. We started the interview with fan questions you sent me. All the 11 fan questions were answered. Some of the questions were used later in the conversation, since they were connected to the Voivod concept. And big shoutout to Alex of Graveyard! Support the underground and buy your copy of Graveyard’s The 6th Extinction album!
The interview starts with how Away copes with Covid-19. He said that he has never been busier because of the art he is doing for other bands. Exclusively for Agoraphobic News, Away said that he is working on three new books. He also stated that he is doing an artwork for the live Voivod album which will be released in fall this year. One of the books will be about life on the road. After every show in every town I try to represent artistically the vibe I got from the city during the day. But I do it my way with the sci-fi dystopian approach. I do a lot of the art on the road based on the architecture of the city. But at home I quite often try to draw what I dream the night before. And sometimes it’s a flash that comes out of nowhere. Most of the time. But anything can trigger something. Especially these days where the news online are very sci-fi.
When asked about the new album, Away stated: We are already writing a new album. The problem we encountered was that Chewy lives a few miles away from Montreal. And the roads are block these days. He can’t really travel to Montreal and we can’t really travel to where he lives. We are doing a demo, sharing dropbox files. I just downloaded a drum machine app for android and I’m using it to demo the drums because, obviously I can’t play at home or record at all. But we are moving forward with writing new material which is great!...We have just chunks of songs but many of them. And maybe some of them will be collected together eventually. Before everything started with this coronavirus, we already have made a bunch of recording sessions at our studio. So we have some material to pull from improvisations, riffs that Chewy started and we all joined then. There is also material written by everybody that we shared among ourselves. We are slowly gonna build up an album this year. Later in the interview, he jokingly said that he’s gonna turn the Voivod logo into a Covid-19 logo on the upcoming album and stated that the new album will be “probably Corona influenced”. The new record will probably be released during 2021. He also expressed his fears that heavy metal bands will stop touring which will greatly affect the revenue of the most bands.
And from that question onwards, the main discussion was about the 7 chapters of Voivod and the whole Voivod universe.
He then explained the lyrical concept of the 7th chapter in detail! Then, Away explained that the whole Voivod concept could have been one of the reasons why Snake left the band. And that’s why he is reluctant to impose another concept album on the singer. Other than the 7th chapter, Away said that there are two solo Piggy albums that never saw the light of day and that it’s up to Piggy’s family to release these. Away said that he wanted to release an Eric Forrest years box set with live shows and the lost demos from the 7th chapter.
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24 июл 2024
