 Wait, no now we're live live on the metal voice. Yeah, who we got the snake What's going it's cold today, it's cold everywhere man ice everywhere Yeah, where's the vice? Yes. Yes. Yes. Where's a vice? So how are things anyways good we're all good. Yeah, yeah, I guess we're we can call it good All right, yeah, exciting news the band new album. Yes Synchro anarchy. Let me just show you over it. Synchro anarchy. I'm showing the picture right now live Great artwork, beautiful artwork. Once again, of course by away, right? Always. Yes, fine job Is there any meaning to this artwork? Like I see fire coming from the sky. I see us flying saucer there I see the moon. I see skulls. Is there any concept behind this? This this this album artwork that you are aware of Well It's synchro anarchy as a reference to a lot of things and of course You know, it's a bit regarding the pandemic the first year of the pandemic I I spend I don't know. I mean, I think I spend the almost the entire year by myself at home and no girlfriend no dog no cat and and I was about Turned crazy, right? And then it seems like a Time stretch, you know, you know because Yeah, it's either you work it from home or you don't work at all You don't have schedule. You don't have routine anymore So it's like This is kind of stretching Timing and and as as another aspect it's We did this album in about four months all combined So everything was compressed, you know, the time was compressed. You were working on their pressure we had you know, our our brain was like steaming and and The time was just like a big rock compress and and and Also, I don't know key because it's so hard. It's been so hard to plan anything This is for the last two years. I didn't book a tour and it's never happened. So Yeah, it's pretty much a The I wanted to talk about a pandemic but not not about the virus not about, you know, whatever was more about The psycho kind of thing Let me ask you since the beginning of Voivode Did you write all the lyrics like on all the albums with the exceptions of the albums that you weren't on you did all the lyrics Yeah, yeah, pretty much did all I had a few a few help from a girl Kisti Matsubo for the album Angel Rat in a nothing face You know, I needed to have reference culture more of a cultural reference Because obviously, you know, I'm a French and I don't have the whole the old picture the background the culture Anglosaxon ass and so she helped me for these two records Pretty much figure out the ideas of the way I put things together It's all in me pretty much. Yeah, but you know, I got I got to give you a compliment because if I had to write French songs I would be like, uh, you know, there's little there's little like you said, there's cultural references and there's nuances There's little things and you must say sometimes, you know, what is that right? Is that am I getting the right phrase here and you speak English perfectly, right? And I know, you know, you know, you sing every time in English, but It's still right. There's little things. You're not you're not, you know, you know, I'm a French, but if I if I hear a French from France A reference as a song a song from France, there's little reference that I you know, I had to What is he talking about? Okay, there's that I don't understand because it's a culture reference from that particular village or Place or whatever Expression. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, uh, and I could see people's chats here Okay, so came and says saw Voivod at bloodstock and thought snake was one of the most enjoyable frontman I've ever seen and I was in 2013. So, uh, I think the last place I saw you guys was at the Jazz Fest and I think that was probably the last show in Montreal that you played, right? But the exciting news is this is your 15th album. Can you believe 15 albums 15 albums? On February 11th coming out synchro anarchy on century media records Do you ever like wake up in the morning saying we've done it all like where are we gonna go with this like what? What it's there left to do But I heard the album and I had the pleasure of hearing the album and I have to say one thing right off the bat I think it's a Francis Perron. He does an incredible production if if people thought the wake was good This is even better. Maybe you want to talk about Francis and and his is his Francis is always He's getting better everything he does gets better and he did a really fantastic job on the way The way it was, you know, we took three years to put the way together and so we had time we could have you know sit and talk and blah blah blah and And it was like a pofine product, you know, like many layers stuff This time around we didn't have you know any time, but he had a good experience while we did because we did a Livestreaming at his studio and when we did these recording We were only the four of us bass guitar drum vocal. That's it and he managed to Create a live sound sound that is perfect and and We kind of like the sound of those live streaming and we say hey, maybe, you know, it would be interesting to have like a Like for the next record to sound a little bit like that, you know, just just the four of us, you know, not having multi layers of stuff And so that's that's what we did with With synchronicity first of all, we didn't have time to think twice You were writing the album for like a long time. It's just the recording like they don't know no We did everything in four months You believe that it's crazy Believe that's great. So I thought you're writing the album for a long time and then you go Okay, we're gonna record a boom boom boom fast fast. We're in route. No, we had we had a few stuff in the bank, you know, but very little and and we had a meeting once and it was in June or July and The record company but because we had an upcoming tour organization for a for a for March Of this year But the record company said it would be great to have something fresh, you know and blah blah blah. Yeah, but How can you manage to do all this in such a period of time and then we're sitting around the fire by the studio and and and we all look at each other and Can we pull that off? Can we make a record in four months because we have to deliver in September and I was Really, I didn't know what the thing I said, okay. Well, give it a try but I I don't think we're gonna do this again We almost we almost killed ourself on the job, you know, like You know, because it's like working under pressure. It's like, you know, when you work under pressure if it's physical you you just go faster you run faster but Composing music and lyrics You cannot go with it, you know, your brain doesn't go any faster than what it's supposed to be and so It was almost like a writing with a gun in your head and say, hey, you know, it has to be good But the album as a as a really kind of has a special vibe because of that because We didn't we didn't we didn't have time to To to sit and think about you know, it was just almost like delivering delivering Okay, it is that boom boom boom and I Think we managed to create something very special with and you can feel the emergency in the music Okay, so how's this? I'm gonna bring Dan chewy on. Okay, too. Also. Okay. That's okay with you. That's okay with you You're the same bad Okay, and as we wait for Chewie to jump line Describe to somebody what you think this album sounds like musically I could I could describe it and I'm gonna describe it as extremely technical Very deep and dark. This is Voivod on another level, which is really cool, especially if you're a big Voivod fan. How would you describe it though? musically Yeah, pretty much like you said, I mean it's there's a lot of there's a lot of kind of a Especially and in one song and it really the times timeshift is Like in in the song central on our key, you know, it's like it's almost like a ska beat And then but it chops at every every little while when you think that CD skip No, no, it's it's it's made on purpose, you know, so but uh, maybe maybe Dan can describe it more So so Dan I'm pressure. I'll get we'll get to the themes after with snake, but Dan give us your perspective on Okay, so I I've heard it you guys know it but everybody else out there what it can they expect musically Hi snake Hi Jimmy, how was it going? Well, it's I think it's I've heard the snake a bit of a bit. I was watching you guys It was so intense, you know and snake was right about it was so intense to write everything in insert such a short period of that time very very intensive It we didn't know really we didn't have any perspective on it while writing it and I just start to have a Perspective on it and I think it's deep. It's a deep album. It's a very honest It's dark But but I can see some light There is some light in it, but it's a dark album. It's deep. It's it's like there's a kind of a Not in a bad way, but there's a way to adapt to it that Was that's different from other albums. Is there a top ten single there? We're laughing about this. Is there a top ten single on this album top ten single Well, if there is it was not on purpose, but I wish there is one so we can have a lot of air Radio play and become rich But but I guess what I what I mean by that is I'm not trying to make fun I mean that it's a very complex You know album right that that's what I'm trying to say, you know, there's no like a Verse chorus verse chorus. There's none of that. Yeah, you agree Yeah, I agree, but you know, there's a few a few team in In the album like That as The kind of a positive way, you know, like a In like the song the world today, you know It gets hurt for else to be like, you know, be kind, you know, it's just just a sort of like saying You know, we've got enough bullshit around. So just don't don't pretend to be that Whatever you want to call yourself just try to be nice with everybody try to you know To live in a better world, you know to be a better person And everything you do in every day. So Yeah, it's a dark album, but there's there's parts in the album that brings light and positive side despite, you know, whatever the darkness and The psycho kind of thing So it's very it's very varied Talk about quest for nothing like that is more of a I guess there you're going a little out of the box of you're getting more a little bit of orchestration there, Dan Is it is it like at the end especially it's sort of yeah more epic. We'll call it. Is that the word? Maybe yeah, that's what Francis used as a word when he heard the This section first and he said why this part is very like large sounding and I added some Mandolin Mandola at the end so it it brings another dimension, but yeah, it's like the whole song is kind of Prague song and it builds stress so to speak and then a big release and you're You know in this other dimension which everything is large and there's air and their space to breathe and So this part was the only orchestration difference is the mandolin in mandola But the rest is just the four of us with delay and effects that makes it bigger and everything and the melody Snake sign yeah, yeah Yeah, the harmony everything, you know, yeah the harmony So what's quest for nothing if you were to and I don't want you to give away all the lyrics But just you know an idea of what that meant to you snake the lyrics Well, it's a It's just that sometimes it's it's it's frustrating. It's just You try so hard to do something and then you finally realize that you know It was not worth it But you do that anyway because that's you you have to function you have to move forward and this And it and it's it's a pain. It's there's something that it's Like like going on a vacation, you know, you go on a vacation, but You become you come back from the vacation more tired because You need a vacation from the vacation exactly exactly that's that's that's what is not about but that's a little bit of a Of the line that that goes with it and the and the end part is it's more like Like you said a relief or something like okay kind of a zone that I Don't know you're in a spa or something You look at the beautiful sky and and then nothing else matters no matter what the day was You know everything is more More into Yeah More dreamy as well and reference with death and life and death and Whatever, you know being physically there or not or a spirit or that's a Then we're just like what I look at because I Remember down are you guys looking each other going? Oh my god the pain of four months It was just so bad. No, but no, but I remember He came to me once again Yeah, but with his big eyes I think he didn't sleep for three days It has to be good It has to be Yeah, we can do it I Mind clock all right the song mind clock, you know, that's the sound of my head while writing music Dan mine clock All right. I mean at first you go wait a second is this alternative rock It starts off like really, you know in that sort of alternative 90s rock, but then it opens up and it just becomes this I Wouldn't call it thrash here, but more speed, you know Is that how would you describe mine clock? Track four About the way I Sort of starts off very very slow, and then it kind of builds up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, okay I got it. It's the only one that starts off really slow like you would think you're listening to some sort of I don't know With clean guitar part. Yes. Yeah, that's the one Okay, you guys have other interviews going on You might want to revisit your song Well, it's been a while You know we adjust, you know, like I said earlier, we're just kind of I get it. I get it. Don't worry. We're just joking around. We're joking. Yeah, yeah, but it's funny. I Remember this actually the music it's Well the text inspire me but the text came while we were writing it then it Yeah, I thought about mental sickness and loneliness. Yeah, and I think yeah, you give You gave me a hint and then I took your hand. Yeah, I think I Yeah, I took it from there and I created that that guy that is sitting in as a Sitting in like a retired man a retired house And everybody think it's crazy because he he's building a sign He had built a flying saucer yes, and then and He's he's saying to everybody that he's gonna go with his flying saucer Finally he did and and everybody's happy at the retirement finally. He's gone but Yeah, it's it. I want to tell everybody this just everybody understands what happened you guys Went into a studio For four months worked your asses off, right and Then just came out of the studio and you don't know what happened. You is that more or less like you're just so exhausted You're so exhausted from the work Well, yeah, pretty much That was like Go ahead. I was pretty much I had a few ideas that I started recording maybe almost two years ago, but just snippets like just and At some point we lost touch with each other and we had two like snakes said earlier Oh, we have a deadline, you know, let's let's work on it So basically a way had those ideas and they he tried to put them together so it makes structure of songs and he programmed drums and I wrote the arrangement and Slowly but very fastly we built it around it and then we had to try it in the studio live So to make sure every part was, you know working and we modified stuff and snake would try some lines and everything But it was like three or four days doing that So we didn't have time to go through all the songs and the ideas and some of the songs were not even written So I went back home I did all the demos with the programmed drums and structures that we did and what we worked in the studio and That's what the when the race started and and then we went back to the studio to to arrange and You know complete all the songs and record them You know, it's like a old school It's almost like going on tour, you know, you play every day for a few months You come back for me. It's like what happened. What happened? Yes Snake in the olden days with Voivode was it pretty much that like the first two three albums You just you go in the studio crank it out and that's that and it is what it is Yeah, but you know, we we always had time to Think about it which we did in this time but But it was yeah, you know, we didn't have a whole lot of budget and so the first couple of first couple of album You know, we were basically making the structure of the songs in our rehearsal space Which the sound was so bad. We couldn't hear anything and then we had to surprise when we got to the studio how it sounds But I mean the reality is like for this album, I'm assuming because of all the problems we had, you know with the COVID-19 right, it was less of that right less of the band jamming and less of the band collaborating, right? Yeah we all had to Kind of it was a constant brainstorm, you know, I was like I couldn't Set myself thinking about something else for four months. You know, I just because I was always in my head It's when you when you work on something especially lyrics, you know, you write a few lines and then you're stuck somewhere How I'm gonna bring that to the chorus, you know, it has it has to move forward It has to you have to create another thing and another thing and another thing But you have to leave your paper there and do your things, you know Go to the garage But that things all that answers keeps going keep going and keep going and then You know, you're driving the car and then whoo. Yes. I got I know how to Build up that chorus that makes sense. You know, it has to make sense of somehow but Yeah What about okay planet eaters, that's the first single right so Is that a good idea of what people can expect on the rest of the album to we Vibe I think Vova that has been renown from way before that I was in About their Each album has many surprises and it's all we can expect the unexpected and that's that kind of Vibe, you know, so I think You have two songs out now, which is planet eaters and Paranormalium which are very different One is more Metal so to speak and very chaotic and more what one is more melodic and organized So there's many different texture on the album many different dimensions so to speak Journey I think it's a pretty varied but of course the course the core the sound of the band This is recognizable through the, you know, the harmony the songs the structures the Progressive side and the sci-fi side and and so I think It's it's it's representative of the the sound of overall sound of the album planet eaters But it doesn't give everything that that the rest of the album have of course There's there's more surprise to it. All right, good. Yeah, and I agree with that. So a snake planet eaters. This is we're all basically Disposing of our planet and we're just sort of getting rid of things easily and a Disposable world maybe, you know, we're just not taking care of things as we should is that what it's about Yeah, pretty much. I was I was thinking about the way the way the player the way the song goes and It remind me of some sort of like a Things that I saw before but Basically, yeah, it's it's like Are we gonna be able to keep going like this forever even if you a little bit a little bit of recycling a little bit of that and now I'm trying to explore more more into the Into space and eventually, you know Eventually, it's either we collapse or try to find a way to expand somehow and somewhere else this the planet is a Finnish world It cannot give more than what it gives, you know, that's it. Yeah, if we ask too much then then we're screwed up yeah, and then But I also a reference that you know, we're all planets, you know, we all contribute to To eat to eat ourselves up really and Then I made the story You know, it's almost like taking a taking a vacation or taking a trip to somewhere and that particular case They had with Mars, you know, oh going to Mars, you know and I Building more buildings to build It's a great line. It's a great line It's a really great line Yeah, we work we work together Chewy like oh, we're gonna build this how we're gonna build this Was a hard one to sing as well Yeah But it was fun and I remember What well, we're not so far away from that era, you know, like we just go to Mars with with Elon Musk says and we're going to Mars in 2030 or something like that, right? It's not far fetch at all, you know But but the idea like captain Kerr going to space, you know, like, you know Anybody can go on a special flight to to go in space and you know, you know Some people not any people for now, but it's I don't know. It's it's not reassuring You know that you put the aspect of saving for, you know, like aro plan or something Save on your next trip to Mars Get your fourth booster get a free trip to Mars Exactly if anybody has any questions that's watching they could you know, we'll ask the boys here And you know, it's interesting thing. You guys are a metal band, but you're a one guitarist metal band I know today Judas Priest announced we're going out as a four piece, but you guys have always been a four piece Do you and both of you I guess and maybe more the chewy do you find that it's sometimes, you know, you you like Filling in the gaps as one guitarist or maybe sometimes you think It'd be cool to have another guitar to get another sound there. I At first I was I was so used to play in Marty or my old band with two guitars and arrange everything with two guitars That it was a little bit Distabilizings, but I used to play as well as a in trios and stuff like that, but Voivodes music is so different than anything that I've played in before, you know, I knew the band of course, but The bass is acting somewhat of an Bass and guitar at the same time, you know, there's a lot of dialogue between instrument between, you know vocal lines and drums and both both instrument both strings instrument are you know, dialoguing so to speak a lot and So so my role sometime is more of a keyboard player than a guitar player because I have to suggest an harmony I have to suggest chord. It's not always riffing part it it has to have a floor for snake to sing and Snake needs chords and and you know harmonics and that's where he finds this He's comfortable in that chaos, you know that dissonance is the only singer I know on the earth that can bring out that simple melody out of this chaotic harmony I don't know how he does it. I don't know how he does it. There's no power chord There's no power chord to think of a melody, you know like right exactly It's always shaking, you know the harmony when you put two notes together that are dissonant It creates a vibration. That's not stable and most of people would say Doesn't sound right, but in Voila's music. It doesn't sound right everywhere Well, that's the charm, right? That's the charm of the band So, okay, let me just pause that and I'm gonna go to the people's questions because I guess I don't want to ignore them Right, and if I look this way, it's I'm not ignoring you guys. I'm just looking at the screen, you know So Max Allard saying is the release of the hypercube sessions still in the plans So the hypercube sessions that you did I think it was six months ago Is that still in the plans to release that as a DVD I guess I don't know Well, that's that's that eventually will see the light of day I don't know in what context, but we know we have this we know people want to see it We just have to figure out how and when and you know on what platform But it will be out. I'm sure Or some of it, you know, all right just a matter of time. Okay, so K-man wants to know someone asked about the unreleased demo from 2001 Snake is there an unreleased demo from 2001? I Think he's referring to a demo with Eric forest before he okay. Yes So we don't know much about it Eric's got the tapes. Okay Kindly asked them what their favorite club was in Montreal in the 90s. I The scene was awesome at the time. So Snake, what was your favorite club to play back in the 90s? I Used to go to the food. Yeah, but I I don't sometimes I don't remember Dan how about you? Well, that was the food. Of course, there was the backstreet. I saw the backstreet Underground. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Yes We played there. Yeah, one of the first show I went to was the backstreet. I think I was underage and I think it was early Early shows of annihilator back then. Oh, yeah annihilator is great Chris Hawkins vibe was Yeah, I know I've been to the back straight. It was cool back then. It was really it was like you went downstairs, right? And it was yeah, the vibe was special. Yeah on mayor's something like that. Yeah Voie vaude angel rat reissue on vinyl any plans? So voie vaude angel rat reissue on vinyl. Are there any plans? Yes, I think I have it on paper here. They took some notes today. What the notes? Where's my paper and yeah, okay, go ahead Yeah, I should be released I'm gonna angel rat and nothing face on vinyl riddition from century media When exactly I Think it's in the process right now. So I don't know when it's gonna be out yet Yeah, it's on it's on the plan and also I'd like to tell everybody that the album that's being released It also there's a deluxe version of the new album where you can get a live and I don't remember where the live was but I could look it up There's a deluxe edition of synchro anarchy You can order and I actually pre-ordered it. So There's a live disc that it could you know that comes with it. I think it's 2018 somewhere you played or another You guys know I'm not sure but it comes with an extra disc as a deluxe so I could look it up on Amazon But can't really go to the screen So now maybe I'm telling you guys that this exists. Are you guys aware of this? Yeah, I was aware. I forgot about the gig. I think it was I'd stop. It was the Jean-Claire show I don't remember Return to the Margot 2018. Is that yeah, that's the Jean-Claire show. Yeah, that's that's oh, yeah, right All right, that's what I thought that was the last I Think it was that the show we we had footage on the obsolete being video We took footage from that show so return to Margot Jean-Claire the hometown of Boivard. Yes, and your family was there. I think snake your mother was there. Yeah Yeah, it was fun. And I think him Piggy's mother and sister were there too. Okay, cool It was it was very special. Yeah, so you can catch the vibe of the show And that's deluxe you could order the deluxe version with the extra All right air and I probably ask you guys this all of many many years The Voivod documentary air IK wants to know the Voivod documentary in the works. Yeah, it's been in the works We know that do you have a release date or what's what's happening? Well, the documentary Philippe is working on it Obviously still needs sometimes to Get some interviews but because of the pandemic it was difficult for him to travel he had to meet with With many people including Jason who wanted to get footage Or interview them So I yeah, it's on the process it did I Would I don't think it's gonna be ready for this year, but early next year I think it's gonna be out for the 40th 40th anniversary. Okay, cool What about I was reading a book. Is there a book and not a biography? Is that or is it just pictures and in artwork or is it? Jeff banger works on the book as well. Hey, and It's also gonna be for the 40th anniversary But I don't have much detail about what's in it So here's a good question for both of you Tanvier is saying I've never listened to a Voivod album. I Know it's crazy I know it's crazy. Which album would you recommend as a good entry point So what is the entry point for Voivod if you had to pick one Dan and then snake but first Dan What is the good entry point? It's really hard to tell I would go with The new one or the one before that if you want to be in present time and know what the Ben sound like today But as well, I would go with maybe an album like Dimension Hatross Which you know for me was had a real big impact as well as Progressive the progressive side the metal side and the psychedelic side is all there So that would be one of them. You know, but what about you snake? If you were some new young kid comes up today snake Which I'm sure with well the band what it's been listening to but I've been listening to I don't know Band or something. I don't know I would certainly recommend killing technology for the old days, you know When we really start to be more kind of Progressive with stuff from being really trash punk trash to be more progressive so pick up killing technology and And for the rest and for the present time The wake the wake is good The EP as well post society There's good songs in it And of course the new record. Yeah, of course, of course, we got to pick that up right away pre-order right now Dan your Japanese when you go to Japan How I mean when it kind of blows my mind Voivod is known everywhere in the world right snake and that chewy everywhere You go there's there's metal heads around the world who know Voivod, but when you go to Japan, how popular is the band there? I don't know Go ahead What's the what's the word for famous? I know you may you may all I know is mushy mushy mushy. That's all I know Well, we say hello I mean, you know the thing with Voivod is as you said, it's and I Experienced it like I remember the first years of touring and wow, you know, everybody knows the band everywhere But it's a it's a tiny percentage of population everywhere that knows the band and when we get there We we have you know, we meet die-hard fans, but they're everywhere. It's a very fragile community It's like a family Then snake says that at every every show Voivod's like a family because it's you know a lot of You know how outcast or misfits or whatever of Ordinary people they come to the show They they find something to to connect with they recognize themselves in in this movement of you know metal music but as well as with the band and And the vibe and you know, so I think that's the Kind of people that we run across when we're on tour and when we go in Japan We're we're able to play two nights in a row and Sold out and we go to when we go to Tokyo, but we don't play in stadiums or anything We just in front of the crowds that appreciate the music and this kind of music and Voivod So it's it's always it always surprised me That we play in Chile and we play in Tokyo and we play in in Montreal and we we go to Amsterdam or whatever And there's always people That shows up with Voivod shirts What about you snake? What was the most like you're sitting here in a country and you go wow these people actually know us here What was that moment? They said I can't believe this country Did you get or maybe you didn't have any moments like that? I don't know Well, like I like to we said it always amazed me to go somewhere and then Usually also what it's cool about it's when you travel and Touring and everything and sometimes you go to a festival and then At a festival you could be like in Czech Republic and then and then you have people from there You got people from Chile. You got people from Denmark. You got people from red But and then somehow we're all connected in the metal family But inside the metal family. There's a little bunch of people that the Voivod crazy And sometimes they Ask for an autograph and they're shaking and they're just like my god take it easy, man I'm normal, you know, like and but it amazed me sometimes that Or sometimes you go to a place and then something happened out of the blue You lost the luggage like to we lost his pedal board in Chile and and there was a big fan out there and he went to pick up the airport and he was helping us and We said fuck we don't have the pedal board. We're fucked and then Hey Yeah, he went back home He went back home take his pedal board bring it to the game and save the game and He had all the effects that I needed for the gig like all the Tremolos and delays and he knew about you know, he knew what I needed He was he was probably playing all the songs, you know The song you had the same effect that he that chewy had so And we had a supper at his home So like he's living in an apartment building up in the air. It's like we're in Chile This guy house and my god, you know, like you've got fans everywhere and they're really nice people They're always been nice and I think you know, we we do special music. We're we're kind of a unique band Yeah, not not not every band sound like us, you know, and I think our fans that what they're looking for is something that it's unique And and and they found it in voivode. What what really what they want to hear You know, I never asked metal massacre five How did you get condemned to the gallows on metal massacre five? Uh, it was a friend of ours Wayne Archibald Was a correspondent. Yeah, I know Wayne. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, Wayne. Yeah He's Yeah, he sent uh He sent demos all over the place And uh, we had an offer from a metal blade once It was for that That song on the metal massacre five And metal blade after that released They give us a contract for a for an album So basically it's because of Wayne's good old Wayne. Good old Wayne He doesn't live too far from me Wayne, but good old Wayne. Yeah. Yeah. That's an amazing story. That's really is Chewy what were one of the favorite one of your favorite, uh, bands that you played with you know, it could be in a festival it could be opening for them or You know co-headlining with them or is a a band you said and you know Wow, I got to meet these guys This band They amazed me when we they opened for Voivode in Norway a few years ago. They are not Uh, I think then they're not They don't exist anymore, but virus Uh from Norway amazing band Uh, we played with so many bands but one of uh the highlight One of the highlight uh was playing a few shows with Motorhead and in heaven and hell, you know with Dio And you know be having the chance to tour is one thing the Dio. No Voivode. I just want to know this the Dio. No Voivode Ronnie James Dio. Yo, they played together in in Montreal. Actually Voivode with when snake came back to the band They opened for a deal, but the deal like oh, hey, man. I know. I mean, he was a very Yeah, we had a chance to meet. Yeah, we met after the gig. Yeah, very very nice. Yeah Yeah, we did uh, we did a tour as well When was when I came back to the band we did the tour with Motorhead and Just just for four four days, you know, and I thought I was gonna die Sorry but Chewie Well, now you've been in the band. Oh my god 15 years almost. Yeah, almost. I think 14. Geez man. It's gone by fast Who do you remember touring with that were okay virus, but I mean, you know, let's say, I don't know Creator was a creator you guys went with I can't remember. We we we toured. We had fun with napalm death car cast Yeah, we we had great fun with with many bands, you know when we're co-ed lining with with with guar by example Yeah, it's such a great time, you know and all you know The great tours are when you have a great time on stage and off stage as well And I'm not meaning about not talking about partying necessarily But just getting along go take a walk with someone, you know And and and have good conversation and it it's you know It kind of uh transpired through the whole tour and the whole vibe and what yeah When you go on stage and you're happy because you had a good day and you're with a bunch of great people every day So snake. Yeah, and sometimes go ahead. Sorry. Yeah, sometimes, you know, when you When you tour well, especially on festivals, you know, you see bands that you don't see much often you don't like Not so long ago like a few years ago. We saw a rose statue. I never saw a rose And I was like, oh my god And they were good, they were great, they were great and uh I'm at I'm at uh angry, which isn't yes angry. I understand you should be called happy And uh, oh my god, that was good Did you did you open up with ozzy for one date? Do you remember? Well, well, we we did we did a whole tour canadian tour with uh with ozzy um opening for uh Do you remember what before before the before the uh the osfas? Oh, yeah Yeah, we did a canadian tour all across canada with ozzy You played the bell sender for that door. I think yeah What was it like touring with ozzy? It's ozzy, man. It's friggin ozzy, right? Well, ozzy seems to be fun, but i'm not the kind of guy that's gonna bother him Whatever, you know, and you know, you know He has about eight bodyguards. So it's just like it's almost mister untouchable But I had one day it was my birthday and he signed my birthday card. So I have it at home It's all messed up because he was sweaty and He almost fucked it all up, you know, it's with a sweat but uh But ozzy ozzy, you know, there was so many stories And in the backstage that I heard and oh my god He's still crazy, you know, but uh, yeah, it's it's something that There were really nice people Sharon and ozzy Towards us because of you know, obviously with jason Wasn't their team. So yeah um They were they were nice and we had a good a good a good spot And they're in this big organization, which was uh The hospice before the hospice the tour went super well With the canadian tour. All right. Yeah, it was fun. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, did you guys ever tour a judas priest? We did shows we did shows with judas priest. We did shows with rush, you know, rush was like, uh, What was it not not not moving pictures that went after was uh, what's presto? Presto, presto. That's it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and we opened for judas priest in 2009 in montreal at the bill center Uh, it was my yeah for it show with boy. I was like You know I was that was what's it like? Joey, what's it like transitioning from okay? You're you know, you're now you're playing the arenas. It's a big thing the arenas, right? I mean It was a big thing and you know, I remember that year or that first year First show heavy mtl big festival I think the second show was in dokio or or the third one, you know and uh And the the second or third one was with monster of rock ozzy judas priest at the in calgary, you know open stadium and then uh A few months later with with judas priest at the bell center and I thought I made it, you know I'm gonna buy a Porsche. I'm gonna buy a Porsche now No, but I mean it was so impressive playing, you know with it. There was huge venues with thousands of people tens of thousands of people and um, I was on a cloud really like Playing with my favorite band, you know, so I got good memories of that for sure All right, that's pretty much it. Is there anything else you guys want to add? You want to say? Well, look for the next for the new record, you know, yeah, we work really hard on it So I think it deserves to listen We listen to it If you don't like it, listen to it again And by the deluxe version Yeah, there's something something about it, you know, you're gonna discover something but uh, yeah We put a lot of effort on this record and so And hopefully we'll enjoy Go back to touring when it's possible and we can't wait to To go to see all our friends out there and maybe another You know online streaming show. I don't know. Oh, yeah, you know I have to say I did see the last It was two right? There was two online streaming shows. You did one Dimension we did three. Yeah, you did dimension. You did nothing face. And what was the first one? The first one was uh, regular live set list that we did Uh And uh, they both both the last one we're a complete album Oh, yeah, man It was it was like I gotta say like I seen a couple of these and holy shit. They were good, man They're like you guys are, you know, it was it was done really well like really well It was great to do that in the studio with francis. We were all set up set up there so the sound was really really good even in our ears and uh It was fun for us to play together Finally, you know, like after After a while, you know, and we're we're gonna get soon back at it. I hope It's been a while already Do you guys keep in touch with jason jason used it jason is always, uh Sending highs and respect and congrats on the new song, you know once in a while He's in contact with way and and snagin boy god and I received the text once in a while as well It's always positive always he's a still avoid, you know I'm looking at these questions. Where's where is the alice cooper cover from angel rat sessions There was an alice cooper cover on angel rad sessions. Yeah, don't tell me it's i'm 18 Schools out which one? No, it's a deep track Ah god Pick one How about this here's a question for you dan is as a snake tries to figure that out And it's i'm just gonna go for a few more minutes here because people are typing Are there any less played songs from the earlier albums you'd like to revisit dan Is there any songs, you know, like why are you know, I like to play that song. I think it's drive me nervous Oh drive me nervous. Drive me nervous Yeah, you're good man, dan you're good. No, no, no, I got a hint from the way he's watching Thanks a way Thanks a way So, uh, I forgot about the question, but oh yeah, is there are there any tracks that you'd like to play Like so like the old likes older stuff. Maybe you know that That doesn't get played enough you think We we did a few of the the first two albums, but We might go back to that Actually, you know refresh the set list and change some some songs. It's always good It feels good to change once in a while. I think I always suggested a song. I don't remember the Lauren Bain Is that it? Yeah Clouds in my house Yeah When's the last time you played that one? Oh Ages. Yeah It's a good song. I like it. It's a good song But we have to pick as well to to keep the show energetic energetic Some songs are slower Doesn't don't do super good in festivals So maybe in a streaming show that would be the best context for some of the songs But for sure an old trashy Punquish song would be great to you're always you're always looking for those trashy punky songs Yeah, um In terms of angel rat. Well, it was terry brown right who did that album What wasn't like working with terry brown? Was he was he you know, like was it was in this studio? Was that where you recorded it? I don't remember Uh, it wasn't missus soga. Oh miss saga metal works Yeah, okay. Yeah Yeah, very very cool guy very cool guy Did you really take apart your vocals and and sort of made you work hard at? Uh, yeah, he was uh, he was putting his input into you know, not only The vocal but I mean he was putting his input What he had an idea he was giving us through the idea, but he was not forcing anything Because you know, he seems to be like really relaxed, you know from the 70s from whatever production but uh Um, you guys are going man, this is terry brown man. This is rush man. Is that what you're thinking? Oh, yeah, yeah, this is right. Whatever he says is good man. Whatever said is good Yeah, I well he was Pretty much concentrate on the sound and how we're gonna do things but um Did he play a keyboard on the on the album? I don't recall any that was iven from men without hats and he played keyboard What men without yeah, iven from men with men without hats he played keyboards and he played On is that that album he played keyboard song? I think so. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah Did you tell him look look no pop the girl? Bob goes the world Um and somebody asked Uh Someone asked if there are there any eric forest songs that dad and snake like That's always the question, right? But yeah Are there any songs that you guys like? Because you both weren't in the band back then right when He was there Well, we used to play four long uh long time ago I don't that was a cool that it was a cool track We we performed another one. I think We played two I think But uh, yeah, I am a big fan of the four boss album and uh and snake was uh, it was great to uh To sing in isn't in his own way. It's not easy to sing another Uh Yeah from another singer. So it was great. It was a different version. It was really really cool to do Are you guys good for a few more minutes because I have a few more questions. Are you okay? Are we good? Yeah, we're good. Okay. We don't have another interview coming up after this. No, we're good. No Jack luminous jack luminous Yeah, are you gonna ever play that song? We played it. Oh you played it. Oh, okay Oh you uh on the stream There's some no, but there's some footage of it. We did the whole tour playing that 17 minute song which takes like place It replaces three songs in the set list. So it's a hard choice You know, we have to let go to other songs to play just one But we did it because we we played at the road burn festival and and uh, Also one time in Montreal. We played it at uh, the salarosa And uh, it was for the road burn fest that we learned it because we wanted to do a special Set list for the event in tailberg Uh netherlands And uh, yeah, it was definitely a dream come true for me to play that song And I was not sure we could put it off because it's very complex and there's a lot of guitar effects. Well, that was That was uh, when we did the dimension nature of dimension nature center grow. Yes, exactly and at the end of it We played jack luminous. All right. Here's one for snake favorite canadian brewery or canadian beer, I guess Voivod beer Favorite canadian brewery Actually, the Voivod beer is really good. The new one with it. Yeah, that's brewed by Huff and Stark Lost machine lost machine lost machine. That's it. Yes. Yes. Yeah. So so what about you? Chewie, what do you got other than the Voivod beer? Do you have any other favorite beers? Of course, uh, all the products from Huff and Stark and uh, la potiquette It's in Saint-Jacques. They do good stuff too. L'Albion in Joliette Very very good beer, uh, english style You know, there's so much so many. Yeah, it was everywhere. Yeah, micro brewery seems to be more popular today, you know in, you know People tend to like that a lot more than the generic La Bats and Molson's right, you know, that's the same old same old Chris wants to know is snake involved in in the restaurant business Is snake involved in the restaurant business? He's involved in the food during the studio session Is he involved in the eating the restaurant business or the restaurant business? He does He makes the money and runs Oh Yeah, I used to Left the band, you know, I tried to experience a little Here and there a few things and there was a restaurant at one point. I actually it was two. There's um, she's snake With uh, she's no no. No, no, no. It was a taco place. Oh, okay. All right A taco trailer that I was taking to festival radio festival and stuff like that It was working pretty good and I had one restaurant in uh in a rosemont neighborhood Colmer yes, it was more like a belgium fries with Uh sandwich with sausages and beer. Okay, so you were really into it. Okay. I didn't even know that. Wow. You're really a restaurant It's a good thing you're out of restaurant owner now because now it'd be like, but I'm telling you I'm telling you this It's so much work You want to kill yourself? Yeah You know, it's really demanding and I I say it's leave to all the People who works in restaurant and have their business. I especially in the in that pandemic time You know, um, I have a whole lot of respect for them and I wish they're gonna go through because obviously it's not, uh It's really complicated and as as as for us as a band Yeah, imagine them, you know, we doing stuff Like we follow the restriction. We play shows with people seated with their mask and stuff like that We compose with the situation and we keep on We stay positive and everything and these people well, they do the same thing in the restaurant, you know, they Sometimes they close it. They really reopen or just able to have the takeout service and then they do it and they try to survive but Uh It's a hard work. Chewy you do guitar lessons, right? You do private guitar. Do you do like virtual guitar lessons? I do online guitar lessons. I started the more with When the lockdown happened one year ago and uh, I didn't have uh much Courses to teach at college in sigyap So, uh, I was like, uh, you know So I invested time to With the help of luke to A friend of ours who takes care of a website. So I have my website People can contact me through there and And I give lessons online. I have students all over the world. It's very interesting I I got a student from Serbia one from texas one from l'assomption and Yes, l'assomption Yes, it's really cool and a different totally different style of music Sometimes metalhead sometimes, you know, totally different and uh any ages. So I Some kids and some uh guys in their in their sixties and uh It's it's really it gave me uh back the uh Like the motivation to teach and now i'm going uh to start the session in sigyap the joliet Where I teach music theory courses guitar lessons and technology with you know music with computers I'm going to be pretty much full time there. So I have to slow down my private Lesson but I will continue It's going to be a constant thing Okay, audio blue rays in the near somebody asked a question any band members listen to the 70s italian prog rock Italian prog rock. Do you guys listen to it? I is there italian prog rock? I don't know 70s. Yeah, italian prog rock There's a goblin okay, uh, which Did a soundtracks for uh zombie movies And we saw them at In las vegas at the festival. They were great and there was two screens with With footage from the the movies and they played the soundtrack of that live. It was amazing and I think it's Vivo low or l vivo. I don't I'm not sure about the the band name. It's really prog From the 70s, you know beat we organ Grace great bass sounding. Yeah, well a lot of good prog in the 70s, right? Yeah. Yeah, but There was quality from uh yeah El volo, that's the name I'm not good with names, but yeah All right, somebody give me one great last question and we'll wrap it up So somebody you got to give me a really good question for the guys Interesting question and we'll wrap it up for the night Dario angeteros Suspira suspira, I guess that's maybe somebody from Italy I don't know but in the meantime Who came up with this? Okay, who came here's a good question. This is a good question Who came up with the idea that genius idea for the astronomy domain video where you guys are sort of spinning You know, well, I guess the cameras are spinning who came up with that idea. Was it director snake? Was it uh, was it a way? Who was this? It was director the video Pierre Dalpée Yeah, he was a good Good conceptor when he when he came up with the idea because At first we weren't so sure about it, but uh And the idea was pretty much simple. It's when you look at it, you know It was just a platform on the rig in a big open space and So it was like a platform in the rig And it was a pole attached to it and that pole was like looking like this like a hook And the camera was going like this, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and we set up the drum on the platform And uh, we attached blacky underneath Like that's like And uh, but uh, you all performed your parts on the platform and then he he sort of integrated Yeah, yeah, we we used the platform in many ways. Sometimes it was a drum set. Sometimes I was leaning on it It's it's frigging a great video If there's any it's a really great video and the song just comes out more in that video and that's probably why Yeah, yeah, yeah, I did a really good job on that. Yeah. Yeah as a concept Well, I thought you guys were going upside down. I thought you were going upside. He was playing drums upside down away You're going up. No, no, I know that I know that. Okay on that note. Go ahead It reminds me I wanted to tell earlier the planet eater Planet eaters video, uh, yes are all art from away But the guy who put it put it all together is pia de metterie minetrier Who did the video and uh, he did a great job as well It is it's a great video. Like that's one thing about your music When you when you get these cool concepts, it just It just works so well. It just it's like a little story, you know, and and uh, they always You guys always do the imagery is very powerful in the band and it's a huge part of the band I guess right and and hats off to a way who's always coming up with those cool image Imaging into the artwork, which really makes a big difference, right? It's it separates you guys You know, it sets the tone. Is that the right way to say it sets the tone for the band. All right I know I've taken up all your time tonight It's time to go have uh some belgium french fries All right guys barbecue at my house in the summer. All right. All right. All right. We'll talk soon. Okay Have yourself a great day. Thank you very much jimmy. Thank you