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  • Great Band, it's a way of life, it's like The Power of Myth of Joseph Campbell: We don't know why but they play the music that is inside of us!

  • Angel Rat thanks to exist

  • people might hate me for this but i got into this ban from songs instead of the prior work they done.

  • @mramos1126 I dont understand

  • Magico!

  • Hidden Treasure . I want to find the seventh sea.

  • grrreat song, thnx 4 posting!

    this album has 2 have the creepiest cover art ever!

    rip piggy, u were 1 of the grrrreatest!

  • Genius. Voivod are a way of life, like Killing Joke or Maiden or Metallica.

  • @878commando All great bands. I've actually always had a thing about lumping Voivod in with Hawkwind and Chrome. All very sci-fi, visionary and unique. You couldn't ever accuse Voivod of not doing things their own way.

  • @sex6cult9revolution Absolutely, I love Hawkwind as well, and Tool, Amebix, Swans, all very unique. I know of Chrome but never given them a proper listen, so I will get round to that soon.

  • Genius.

  • Now where can I get a Voivod T-shirt?

  • Such an underrated album! I don't consider this a "sell out" at all, it reminds me of 80s Rush only darker and more atmospheric and eerie. Definitely not some watered down radio rock like some people think!

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  • All the lyrics of this song are real poetry, with a touch of darkness like : ''looking down, the crows nest'' ...that's something....

  • Awesome band that only a select few appreciate and understand, we are the fans!!!

    

  • Voivod go for beauty.

  • My fav Album is "Outer Limits". But i heard, that ost of people don't like it.

  • @Szamot97 a lot of people are saying that it's the best metal album ever...

  • This album and Outer Limits are my fav Voivod albums!

  • First live band I ever experienced. These guys blew my mind away; they're the only group to really cause me to rethink my intellectual approach to music and I was stunned at their range of abilities to transition into different tempos, even live. The very dynamic VoiVod.

  • this song is killer!

  • Produced by Terry Brown, who produced Rush up to Signals. Cool song. The Outer Limits is my favorite CD from VoiVod. Saw live in 94 at small club near Long Beach. They were great. Played entire version of Jack Luminous.

  • Do they have a boxset due?

  • I hated this album after "Nothingface" but its actually the most perfect and complete album they ever did..... Its enduring and one that always finds a place in my car stereo

  • There is no band in the world that evolved so much like Voivod.. Whatever they did, i admire the artistic freedom they displayed.. Respect for this band, my favorite band of all times..

  • I would Marry Voivod.......no shit...(*_*)

  • Great song and that album cover looks like something I would have imagined as a child,weird and wonderful.It conjures up another dimension.

  • Why would someone say shit about voivod because of angel rat and outer limits?

    You already have one of the best thrash metal records ever done by voivod, and the rest are not thrash masterpieces, but they are metal and generally, musical masterpieces.

    I wouldnt like Voivod as much as i do if instead of W&P, RRROOOAAARRR, Killing Technology , Dimension Hatross, Nothingface, Angelrat, The Outer Limits, Negatron and Phobos they had released 12 killing techonology lol

  • voivod is the best, all periods of them, like Rush, they kept changing, and evolving, great stuff...

  • Wait a second... just a few seconds ago I was about ready to shoot down some character named "Loosch" in Aces High. How did I get here??? :)

  • this has always been a favorite thanks for posting

  • this is Voivod, love it or hate it. For me, both thrash and prog are good.

  • you gotta love Voivod, 12 studio albums and even though they changed their sound 10 times over the years, I like every period of Voivod and I'm usually the "they changed their sound and suck now guy" about most bands. Piggy shreds

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  • sounds very new wave

    very different but not bad though

  • what means dans la mer???

  • @SavaFun it means "in the ocean".

  • @SavaFun it mean : in the sea

  • my favourite album of all time! PERIOD!

  • snake's vocals are fucking awesome.

  • fucking brilliant band. this album was amazing.

  • @stoneyburned so its not anymore?

  • @bloodpollution21 yes still is. ok prick?

  • @stoneyburned PENIS

  • @bloodpollution21 shut up you dickhead. go fuck yourself. cunt

  • @stoneyburned But I only want to fuck you

  • @bloodpollution21 fuck yourself you faggot wank

  • @stoneyburned Baby don't be like this, I thought we had something special. Those nights where we'd lube each other up, throw on some Voivod and diddle each other till the morning sun shown through the windows.

  • @bloodpollution21 haha stupid and gay. go find a boyfriend you cocksucker hahaha

  • @stoneyburned i love you boyfriend

  • just got turned onto voivod few days back wow impressive,all those changes and off beats and chord structure damn!!!!!i've missed out all these years.......so i ordered nothing face, demolition hatross,katorz,angel rat (my fav),and outer limits.

  • Yeah in order to appreciate Voivod, you really have to consider their whole discography (which I understand the itunes generation probably can't do anymore). When you listen to one or two quirky songs from them, it's almost out of context. Seriously take a Saturday off, lock yourself in a dark basement with a blacklight and listen to every Voivod album cranked starting with Roaaaaaarrrr. You can always try to get laid again next weekend...

  • @dripgoss Everyone should do that in general, and not just for Voivod.

  • @dripgoss Why not start with war and pain? Lol at the last sentence. I've never even attempted to get laid before, maybe I will eventually but at the moment I'm just too mentally fucked up to do so, or even care to do so.

    Assburgers makes one like that I suppose. Until then, Voivod is my sex. Well, and my tenga flip hole, which feels at least 10 times better then using my hand, I can barely last a minute with it.

  • Merci Beaucoup! <3

  • Cool :)

  • Simply brilliant. As a distant and rare sound after a battle. Almost melancholic too. It is sad that there s no videos regarding to this stage of Voivod. One of my favourites band. Thanks for posting.

  • i miss piggy...one of the greats.

  • oki

    

  • Great music; well before it's time. I prefer 'Nothingface' over this album, but this one at least had Jean-Yves Thériault on bass, which I thought was a no-brainer. I never quite understood his departure from the band afterward ~ his bass tone was awesome. RIP Piggy!

  • One awesome thing about Voivod's album covers is that making sense is optional

    \m/ >_< \m/

  • whenever i listen to this song i feel better

  • best band ever! ....

  • Still one my most favorite albums of all time! Everyone I played it to went out to get it straight away*g*

  • ça c'est une merveille!!!!

  • Voivod fans I know liked this. Personally, I like all the albums, but I do see their career as going up and down. War and Pain was great, but their thrash stuff only got better, IMO, right up thru Dimension Hatross. Nothingface & Angel Rat were sort of the peak, N-face being still on the thrash side, but getting more lyrical & AR being the start of the descent, being stripped of thrash, but still energetic. Yet after The Outer Limits, they came back around with more heaviness. Gotta love 'em.

  • @sex6cult9revolution I love voivod and the majority of their catalogue but war and pain is utter dog shit and they probably would admit it. Just thinking about how bad it is makes me cringe. It's the one disc that never gets played......I only keep it for historical significance. It's insane how such a great band was moulded out of that sorry excuse for career suicide.

  • @metalwizard13 War and Pain rules, dude.

  • @foolisharrangement dude I noticed on your site you have the smiths listed as favorites of yours with all that gayness I can't trust your opinion.This is not such a great Voi Vod album it's ok.It was too rhythmic for a Voi Vod album for most fan's;we liked the ugly off time signature's and ghastly chord progression's of the earlier day's.

  • @blitzspeer You just don't get this album. Voivod progressed with every release, whether it was in the same vein as their last album or a completely new style. Every album Voivod has released has been a masterpiece, including this one. If you don't like this album you probably don't get it and you definitely do not get Voivod.

  • @ThazuaBlackarrow yeah ? under the influence of what exactly?

  • Awesome song right here!

  • i honestly cant decide if this album was a turn for the better for voivod, or if it was just a step down from nothingface. i do like most of the songs on angel rat, though

  • Love this album, one of their best.

  • Canuck Metal kicks u know what. sweet

  • this album is great. yeah thats right i like war and pain era voivod and angel rat era voivod. if you got a problem go fuck your self

  • I don't know how you do it but I respect you. I'm trying and Angel Rat starting to click for me. Did you have to

    "ease into" Angel Rat or did you like it from the start?

  • @Zegeebwah First time hearing it and I love it.

  • @q28s1

    I definitely have come to respect and love this album. It was such a culture shock to hear Voivod play music I would've never associated with Voivod but that actually made it that much better. Voivod truly are one of a kind.

  • VOIVOD!!!!!!!!!!

  • everything up to the Outer Limits is grade A music

  • my favorite voivod album

  • this album is some kind of magic for me!very hard to explain what it is !but this is a masterpiece!

  • gladly they got out of that 80's raw hardcore thrash metal shit and became one of the most original rock bands out there from Killing Technology forward

  • @cherryorchards

    all of voivods first seven albums were great. including the first two.

  • yeah I agreed man I think the problems I have with the new albums is that it feels more hard rockish and it's not as technical nor as progressive. Just feel that they should be talked back into their roots a little more, you know.

  • the probleme is that the real composer of the band, the ancient guitarist was dead from a brain cancer if i remember.

    this guy was a genius no one can be compared to him

  • true man, R.I.P. Piggy we miss you.

  • @cherryorchards

    Are you joking?

  • no, i'm not....their first two are kind of Kaaos meets Discharge mixed up with textbook 80's power/thrash metal

  • Given their first two albums were admittedly generic and raw, Killing Tech and Dimension Hatross are incredibly unique thrash albums. Don't knock what you're not open-minded enough to enjoy.

  • i know damn well that killing tech and dimension are unique albums, so what's your point?

  • they are. so were war and pain and rrroooaaarrr

  • Full of win!!

  • VOIVOD  is a diamond !

  • this record took the old fanbase by complete surprise. compared to war and pain, rrrrooooaaaarrr!, killing technology, and dimension hatross and nothingface, angel rat is really a straightforward rock record with just a hint of the angular attack of their older material mixed in. they went out on a limb for this and thankfully their fans stuck with them. r.i.p. piggy and long live the iron gang!

  • i have to admit, after Nothingface, I really hated Angel Rat when I first heard it. it wasn't until just a few years ago that I went back and gave it a fair shake, and was surprised to find out how great it really was. I wish I had given it a chance back then, hating that album was what kept me from seeing them live that year, which unfortunately was one of the very rare times they came anywhere near where I live. I'll never forgive myself for that.

  • I feel so bad for you....

  • i got the Angel Rat cassette at Wal-Mart around 94 for like 2 or 3 dollars, pretty unique, Denis D'Amour is a killer guitarist.

  • pirate music!

  • i never knew how old Voivod was until lately

  • Very good! I love this song! My favorite!

  • Cult band - and this is my favourite song on Angel Rat.

    Thanks man

  • such foolish ignorance. Typical 15 year old kid thinking bands can just survive without progressing beyond the cave man three chord trash riffs. This album is brilliant, every single song on angel rat is like a journey through the universe. You people that critisise this album are just sheep that ahve heard from someone else that the album sucks so you jump on the bandwagon without even giving the album a fair listen.

  • I know dude, I was hooked the moment I listened to this song!

    And hey, do you know if that's all 4 of them in the "Angel Rat" album cover?

  • @afoolisharrangement

    I agree that Angel Rat was a beautiful album, integrating the 70s prog and psychedelic influences that Piggy was so fond of. This band made excellent thrash/black metal albums but moved on to such inventive music that may not be totally understood even 20 years later. Angel Rat and Outer Limits were full of technical space rocking breakthrough tunes... of course the Syd Barrett influence shines through too which is brilliant!!

  • @afoolisharrangement

    I agree. I love War and Pain, Dimension Hatross, and Killing Technology as much as the other Voivod fans.

    I also love Angel Rat and Nothingface! They represent movement forward in the genre just like Death (RIP, Chuck you were the real pioneer), Meshuggah, and Gorguts have done in newer releases. I shudder to think what metal would be if bands didn't progress musically and lyrically.

  • @afoolisharrangement  i'm totally agree with afoolisharrangement, you need to listen this pearl then you 'll realize how much genius is in it

  • @afoolisharrangement

    lol no. Are you even a fan of Voivod? They were never your typical three chord thrash band.

    Hell, even back in the days of rooooaaar they had a bit of a unique sound.

  • @afoolisharrangement

    Besides I love progressive rock and metal. As well as jazz, classical, punk, avant garde music. I don't discriminate by label and keep an open mind. I like/hate a lot of albums people would violently disagree with. Point of all that: Just really don't like this album. Not bad, but doesn't do much for me. I like The Outer Limits a lot more!

  • @afoolisharrangement i bought this when it came out, yeah i thought it was a sellout LP/Tape.

    it was my first tape i bought by them, but i got used to it & Liked it.

    same concept for KISS LP unmasked, many people hate it & dont know it. I LOVE that LP/ CD!

  • @afoolisharrangement

    They just made a break from Korgull's concept for a few albums... I can assure that this song live is as powerfull as the thrash ones. Check the video an an club in greece. What an amazing band, so underrated.

  • @afoolisharrangement well put.

  • Great Song.

  • artwork by ACTIVISION

  • art by Away, as always...

  • I know its Away..just the digitize graphics makes it look like a video game

  • classic

  • Méchant bon album!!! J'ai eu la chance de jouer avec eux a 2 reprises dans le temps de Nothingface et Outer limits!!

  • I was so addicted to this album.I had this on tape.Listened to it all the time.a drug this was for me

  • I was really disapointed by this album especially after Dimension Hatros and Nothingfce! My best album is Dimension Hatros... I believe that they completely lose their focus when they did this album. As a proof, Blacky left the band immediately after and Snake follow up after the next album.

  • The odd thing about VoiVod is that I've almost never liked any of their albums the first listen. Since their albums frequently differ, it took me a few listens to get into the album. After that, I love 'em. Even though this album is a large departure from most of the other stuff, I can still hear Voivod in it, Piggy's guitar and unique style. IMO, it shows off the progressive part of their style.

    Oh yeah. Voivod is my favorite band...

  • yeah I know what you mean dude....at first bands like voivod, watchtower, and cynic kind of went over my head. But over time have become my most cherished albums.

  • Please post the song Angel Rat !!!!!!

  • Hi, a friend of mine posted it, here it is: /watch?v=deyRqAmfMBw

  • PLEASE POST THE SONG ANGEL RAT

    I want to put it on my page. I love VOIVOD always have.

  • One of my favorit voivod songs The new album

    "infini" ROCKS!!!

  • Well they really didn't have a choice for the direction they took for this album. There label MCA Records at the time were forcing them to take a turn around. Hence, why Blacky left the band. Other than that I thought this was a fantastic album because it stands on its own. More importantly this is my favorite song. I only wish that they made a vid for this one.

  • Oh really, so getting Terry Brown to produce the album was a compromise for the band and Blacky didnt leave the band because he wanted to make techno. Don't dismiss this album as a record labels desire to sell more units, if fans dont appreciate this album fuck em!

  • Blacky wanting to make Techno was part of the reason. The other reason was he didn't like the producer and what he was asking from the band and the fact that known listen to him on his ideas.

  • This album had some good spots it was below average..imho. It didn't have the rawness and grit of what Voivod pioneered.

  • It didn't have that rawness, agreed, but it does stand on it's own as a good album. Just not what you had come to expect from Voivod up to that point.

    It's not my favorite Voivod album but if I could take out my bias for the previous efforts, it's good.

    For the record I like Dimension Hatross best overall, but love just about every album they've done. Just depends on my mood which I want to hear at the moment.

  • This album and The Outer Limits are my fav Voivod albums!!!

  • album chef d'oeuvre. masterpiece album

  • FUCK YES!!!!! THE WATERLINE!

  • Sounds like a different band.

  • c un peu mou heureusement k'a les

    solos qui sauvent tout...

  • boff , pas oubliger d'etre agressif pour que sa soit bon

  • naaan je rigole.

    c juste que si tu compare a Negatron,

    c pas pareil.Mais c une preuve de l'ouverture musicale importante que possède le groupe.

    without grudge ,man.

  • great words...?!

  • Whats wrong with this song? And why is somebody stupid if they like it?

  • Angel Rat-great work. Very over looked.

  • sounds like College rock almost, but its a good Album.

  • What's college rock?

  • Term used before alternative rock.

  • True

  • he sounds a bit like ozzy osbourne. ps great song

  • I didnt used to like this album back in the days (92-93), cos I was always comparing it with the Voivods old material. Then a friend gave me this CD a few years later, and I started to appreciate it more. Today I think its an awesome album, and specially if I compare with the shit that has been played today by other bands, I think its a must have in every heavy metal fans CDs collection!

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  • Too true, Nothingface and Angel Rat are Voivod's most accomplished records and they still sound fresh now...

  • I so agree, but i would add phobos as well ^^

  • Voivod is the most underated thrash band, and the truth is they are the premiere avantgarde band in whole world!...no doubt!

  • Hidden treasures on the seven seeeeeas. Klassik!

  • best of ever!!!

  • Osti que c'était bon!!!! J'ai perdu ma cassette il y a quelques années, probablement oublié a un party bien arrosé!!! J'ai eu la chance de connaitre ces gars-la en faisant leur premiere partie 2 fois!!

  • excellent album and this song is awsome , great choice unchatsurlatete! :) tres bon chois ecoeurant!

  • merci :) j'adore cette chanson ! je trouve qu'elle se distingue des autres. chu surpris qu'il y ai autant de view ! voivod étais pas si connu que sa

  • @unchatsurlatete

    Pas connu mais tous les bons connaissent. ;-)

  • For all of you people that talk about Voivod in the way, "Such good memories, I remember when...." what on earth made you stop listening to them?

  • R.I.P. Piggy!

  • Fantastic

  • what a great recollections..... !really sound of my youth!

  • What an awesome song.

    This really takes me back.

  • I have such great memories of this song and album. Back in high school my friends and I used to play this when we went on beer runs, then come back and party listening to it at extremely high volumes.

  • me too, its funny you mention that because if there is any song in this world that can take me back to my really young youth like a time machine where it feels for a moment that I am actually there its this song

  • I like the sound in this song too exellent post

  • So what if this album is not as heavy as their earlier stuff! It still has the signature Voivod sound, musically and vocally, and the ghost ship imagery that this song conjures up gives me chills every time I hear it.

  • Haha, goosebumps me too. Awesome.

  • Listening to this has given me the goosebumps it  did years ago.Back in the day i was a thrash/death metal fan but still rated Angel Rat and Nothingface amongst my fave albums.

  • Sounds like me! I was (and still am) an old school metal fan but have loved every Voivod album as well, especially the two you mentioned.

  • From "killing technology" through to "Angel Rat" VoiVod were one of the most interesting bands around, truly progressive and never dull. I love this song and the "Angel Rat" album..but my favourite is "dimension hatross"..

  • I have the tape version of this masterpiece, ILDMS :*

  • I love this song!!! Canada!!! r.i.p. piggy you will be missed.