 here we go live on the metal voice back again away Michelle all the way in Montreal I'm in Montreal he's in Montreal but we figured let's do a zoom anyways yeah the new age the new age I don't feel like getting out of the house I'll do it on a zoom yeah getting out of the house is so post pandemic yes yes Voivod fascinating news the Voivod documentary is almost finished I mean it's complete but there's still a little more to go just a little further just to make it complete we're gonna talk about we are connected the documentary some details on that you could tell us what's happening with the band later on and we'll take questions are you okay with questions if people take those questions we'll take we'll make this fun so I just want to tell everybody in the details of this this this YouTube channel the details have a link to a Kickstarter where you can donate to the completion of this movie so again do not send the money to me I don't want the money you can send it to Voivod I don't want your money I'm good just send it to Voivod there's a link a Kickstarter you click on it donate as much as you feel like you can even get some shirts right that's right yeah if I think it's if you done it $30 or more you get limited edition shirts okay I'm gonna put the shirts up the picture of all four of you wearing those shirts they're their baseball shirts they're not your typical black shirts they're baseball shirts so $30 or more and you get a shirt correct correct yeah there are there are a couple of t-shirt designs and also a baseball shirt design as well which is more around the $40 maybe yeah okay okay good so I guess the first question is where are you with this documentary and where do you need to go and why do you need these these finances and and what stage are you at go ahead okay we first of all it's it's been in the works for quite a while and it's tens of thousands of dollars to make a movie and we had a very successful first Kickstarter that allowed us to move forward a lot and now we're trying to have a cut for the summer festivals and so the the physical the the version for the physical release will be longer but we're trying right now to do an edit for the summer fest and something we want to have it ready for the summer basically and it's only the last stretch where Philippe is doing some animation with my art and adjusting colors and it's the final stages but we do need some money to finish it up since it's all it's been a self-produced self-financed yeah self-financed so from my understanding and Philippe Philippe Balakazar right his last name I'm just sorry Philippe I don't want to script you last night we might have to ask him I think it's better Kazar maybe he's he's making this I've met him wonderful guy group makes great documentaries this there's a final stage so the movies edited correct yeah well there's some stuff to be added still but it's it's it's almost done okay it's just that again we really wanted to have a cut made for the festivals for theater the theater yes and mainly heavy metal festivals for now that are interested in showing it at their festival but in the for a theater release we'll see what happens but there will definitely be a physical release eventually with bonus material and etc and it's it's been I mean you know it first started in when a piggy passed in 2005 where we had the idea of doing some documentary mainly to honor him and so in 2006 I mean when piggy passed we were like maybe two or three years without doing any touring at this point snake jason used it and I were on a mission to finish the three other the two albums we had started in 2004 and so it gave me some time to gather the archives and put it into digital format and but we when we reform for the heavy Montreal festival in 2008 we just went on tour forever and so everything was sort of put aside for a long time and then must be about seven or eight years ago when Felipe got in touch with me really wanted to do that movie and he sent me the DVD of the documentary he had done about the band death death by metal and I was really amazed of I mean the way he it's a bit like a Ken Burns documentary vibe where he if he's missing some archives he will do a pan or a zoom on an old photo or so the the visual keeps moving and I really liked that documentary and I was convinced he could do something great and for Voivod so we started working on this and of course his travels were cut short by the pandemic but it's a period that it gave me the opportunity since Voivod was not touring it gave me the opportunity to gather even more archives and put them into digital format so and now after all these years it's almost done the last mile I remember I remember I talked to Felipe at the Jazz Fest when Voivod played and now we're talking about four years ago maybe five years ago for yeah it was a summer of 2019 in the Jazz Fest yeah and I remember like then it was almost done but then all of COVID happened and just shut everything down so that really you know stopped everything in its tracks yeah but then again it gave me the opportunity to be at home and try to track down some amazing footage and archives that friends of mine had in there and so we were able to add some more stuff and of course then in 2022 we started touring internationally again and we started winning Juno's and so it's even more material to add to the whole thing and I think pretty much sure that the last footage we got with Felipe was at the Walken last year and so I don't think he needs more archives there's tons of material in fact I checked the latest cut today and it really made me realize how much of a long and winding roller coaster ride it was it's a pretty eventful career I must say because history doesn't stop right like today is history after today it's history right and whatever you do tomorrow is could be added if you really wanted to yeah exactly it's at one point you almost have to stop and say okay this point maybe there'll be a second movie let me ask you there's something Michelle how far back does the footage go to the days that we are playing in the garage in John Kierre or how far does it go the footage well we were not able to track down footage from when we were teenagers only photos family photos but I would think that I think the footage goes back to when we formed the band in 83 I'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure on French TV there was interviews that you did right at the start right when you first started getting a little bit of popularity yeah we when we I was checking bits of it today on the new cut of the film and we really we had this really heavy thick Norton accent that we lost over the years in Montreal so you know what I'm going to take some questions here so if anybody wants to ask away is some questions the first one I saw was let me just go back here a bit and if I turn this way I'm not ignoring you I'm just looking at the board okay when are you going so I can't even pronounce his name deaf con 66 deaf con 66 says away when are you going to do a full album tour if ever when do you get a full well I'm gonna say when do you when will you do a full album tour like nothing face yeah it's a it's a good question we actually had a great time when we could not go on tour during covid we did a couple of online shows where we revisited dimension hathras or nothing face it was really fun first to learn some some songs that we had never played live and so it could be something very interesting the closest we're getting to that I guess is this summer and in July we are going to play the chaos descends festival in Germany where we want to cover the first five albums not all albums of course but we'll we'll sort of make a survey of the 80s I have this one right here see this here remember this nice that's the album two three four and five I think you know like whenever I'm not either touring recording or writing music with voivod I work on reissues a lot and this noise reissue it was contest hours of work but it was on another occasion for me to gather material for the movie because I had to put all my archives into digital format it is I got everything here I think there's a live show here too yeah the no speed the no speed limit weekend we did yeah yeah yeah with diari and rustic front and a crazy weekend in this documentary I'll go back and forth with questions here and and questions that I have terry brown is one of the interviewed people right yeah you know he's one of the guys and can you tell me a little bit about that how you got him involved it was when we were we did the first for the nothing this album we did some shows with rush in Canada and and so we had a connection with these people and through them and their management got in touch with terry brown which was producing their albums and we wanted we wanted him to produce angel rat with more of a progressive rock style to it and so we ended up at metal works in mississauga where I was able to visit the huge warehouse where all the triumph memorabilia yeah it's all stored in the big big room I was there I've been there as it was it was amazing a wonderful experience so we spent a lot of time in mississauga working on angel rat with terry brown real gentlemen yeah and you know lately angel rat has been re-release on vinyl and we had it remastered and when I was checking the masters the new masters it really made me I got a better appreciation of all the work he put into that album there are a lot of layers and it really fit the mood of the music will there be any remixes of any of the older voivode albums do you have the masters can you remix them it could be done but you know I came to think over the year over the years that like okay I might have been frustrated with let's say the sound of raw but now I think it is it is the perfect sound for that type of music from the mid 80s and I think a remastering job is good enough and I wouldn't remix the albums because it it's really reflective of a specific period for me and like when let's say the first album warren pen was remastered I almost thought when I heard the new version that it had been remixed the technology is unbelievable even the intro with the chains and the the the voivode walking in the snow I was hearing new sounds and so I think a good remastering job is good enough and I think that remixing sometimes feels like rewriting history and people rewrite history all the time it's okay I guess I guess I'm just kidding I know what you're saying you're saying it's a snapshot of a period of time you know and you want to don't want to play with that you know I got understand yeah yeah sometimes you know like let's say I heard a great assist of the doors which I'm a big fan of and the songs were remixed with the drums much louder and after a while it got on my nerve because I was so used of hearing a specific sound for them and it didn't reflect the the summer of love anymore it's funny because I heard that same remix of the doors and there's sounds that weren't there before and you're like what what's going on here all right uh voivode rule says can you ask away if there will be any cross canadian tour in 2024 so he means canada right across yeah we just a tour with prong across usa but we only did one canadian date in vancouver which was fantastic but yes this year we want to go across canada for sure we're looking into all opportunities right now last year we went really crazy with the touring because of the 40th anniversary this summer we have a few shows there and there some shows in quebec in the province of quebec in minme some shows in europe in july but mainly we would love to sit down and write a new album all right martin popoff says hi says the audio sounds great hey martin good friend hello martin martin is uh largely responsible for my book words away getting out of course you know yes yes martin martin is is a guru i call him the guru of all books love martin uh and i loved live burr and he likes niko that's the i remember a discussion we had about that here here goes uh hello michel natasha and imran aka yogurt sandwich my question is how long will the documentary be and will voivode be hosting a showing of it in montreal it's two questions there how long is it gonna be and will they do a theatrical maybe release in montreal we're showing i would think that a theatrical release will probably be two hours right now the long cut i uh checked today was uh two hours and 20 minutes uh and that's probably for the physical release so at least a couple of hours long and that there are a lot of the archives but also a lot of interviews with uh tub yes from ghost uh michael from opeth uh our good friend tom warrior from uh celtic frost and terry brown jason used it of course eric forest and so um sorry it makes for a pretty long movie but there is a lot of visuals as well because i supplied philippe with all of my art throughout the decades okay you mentioned some of the people being interviewed e force is going to be there you said jason you said it's going to be on it right yeah but there's also there's also i wait a hold on there's uh michael akra felt from opeth right he's going to be on it correct to bias forge is going to be on it who else didn't we mention that didn't you mention now that's going to be interviewed if you could from what you could remember well one of the number one fans of course is king folly from deceased he's on there as well um i'm not sure if i pronounce his name right but zvandano maybe um dan zvano yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes is a pretty famous figure in the heavy metal and um oh man i forget you know it's it's quite a long movie so so in other words it's sort of like the past the family of voivod right basically it's it's you know the family you know from the jason you said era to the e force era to a snake coming back and the chewy coming in rocky coming in so it's it's the whole family right and it really starts at the beginning and even before voivod you know of course with family photos but uh there's a good narrative about the early years and um what i was amazed um of uh is the fact that um philly pay uh found an air like a photo of the street i grew up in um by the factory the paper mill uh from i don't know it looks like a fifties or sixties photo and uh and he was able to pinpoint my house on that photo which is uh unbelievable and uh it's i like all these projects i mean there there is a book coming out as well by jeff vagner um about voivod called always moving and uh so um all of this you know makes me have i have to go through my archives a lot for these projects and um sometimes it's filled with a lot of emotions because it's yeah it's been it's been quite a chaotic career and uh so it's i must say it's easier for me to do ratios or work on the movie or the book uh whenever uh we are um moving forward with voivod so i don't have to be to focus on the past you know so uh usually i work not that i progressed in it on uh on real issues or the movie or not that but it's it's harder for me to really dig in 100% if i'm not working on something for the future um in terms of uh writing a new album or you know uh so the i have to balance both uh to be uh healthy in my mind explain to everybody where jaune care is that people just don't understand right they think maybe it's a little it's a suburb of munchal but it's not it's it's you're going way up north oh yeah it's it's uh you go towards uh quabac city once you get to quabac city you sort of uh uh go north a bit through the woods for uh a couple of hours and then you uh it's beautiful uh the road to jaune care and then once you get there it's sort of um a mixture of nature and industries in a way and uh so it's a bit isolated we had to hitchhike 500 kilometers to go see shows at the spectrum in montreal like the iron maiden motorhead girl school you know and so um uh it was a long a long hitchhiking ride but uh we had a friend um uh wen wen archibald yeah yeah wen had a lot of pan pals around the world and he always had uh the new demos from the upcoming bands which was amazing uh metallica with david mustain or the early raven or demos or and um so he um he really kept us up to date with the new wave of british heavy metal in that particular and we were really really influenced by that um aside from punk rock and and wen helped you get the tape to metal blade correct like back in the day right yes yes we we did like a demo in the in our rehearsal space that we gained we gave to wen and he uh spread it around and we also sent it to a few fans in then and eventually we got an offer to do come down to the gallows on middle massacre five and and soon enough we had an offer to do a full album which we recorded very very very quickly and at this point i was still going to school at university first college then university and i didn't know if uh i was going to quit school and then the first album came out in 84 and it was really the right time because it was a period where what was going to become trash metal was exploding so it it had a the impact was good enough that uh decided to drop out and focus mainly on voivod but uh i will always remember the famous supper when i had to tell my parents that i was quitting science for heavy metal what did they say they were they okay with it they were very disappointed but now of course my mother is super proud of me and so we had a lot of support from our parents you know we rehearsed in the basement of the the office of snakes father yes one day we tested our pyro and uh we we got kicked out of there it's actually when we moved to montreal yeah it's it's a lot easier closer to montreal to all the other cities right i mean when oh it was uh obvious that one after the release of war and pain that uh we all the four of us really wanted to uh dedicate our life to uh this new project and uh and it was easier to find a good uh infrastructure in montreal so the four of us moved into an apartment in the eastern part of montreal uh uh infested with cockroaches oh we wrote a we wrote a song about it here's uh hate disease says michelle can you tell us anything about your next album is there any anything going on oh we i mean um we uh we all synced up with logic pro on uh and so we can work on it on tour in hotel rooms or in the tour bus or and also build individual parts at home and then but it's really when we get together in the rehearsal space that it morphs into voivodean material so right now we have like very basic templates for maybe 10 songs i think uh and uh so whenever we get together uh to rehearse the next uh tour we we uh we also try to jam new material and um and uh we're just off the tour with prong which was amazing but so we're going to take a couple of weeks break and then we start working on this album again um i i can't really say how much uh how it's going to sound like but the the good news for us these days is that we are writing very intricate albums and we are winning junos one after the other one after the other so it's good indication that we are on our we are on the right path with this saccadillic proggy trash metal that we're doing so we're probably gonna it allows us to explore even more and people seem to when there's your last album right there morga tales yeah on this uh morga tales we had an amazing uh time uh recording uh a survey of uh our career and invited eric for us to sing on it and we invited jason used it to uh play bass on it and and also it um the good thing about it is that we uh it allowed us to invite jason to jam on stage with us in florida last year and also eric came to sing with us at hellfest last year as well so so good good times for us well he played munch y'all too right and you guys went to see him in munch y'all e-force eric for us he was in munch y'all right yes um uh to the piranha bar uh we yes yes and i jammed uh in league with satan with eric and yeah it was a really really cool uh sure we played bass on it you know it's funny i wanted to go to that show i was gonna go to that show but i was in france and eric was coming back and i was going like this yeah every time we play around to lose uh eric comes on stage with us it's really great okay so now we're gonna do we're gonna pause here for commercial break okay the commercial break is fundraising for the documentary right the link the link is in the description of this video you just click on it it's a Kickstarter do not give me the money give it to voivod do not send me any money send it to voivod help them complete this this masterpiece of a film if you pledge more than 30 you get a shirt there are four different designs there's a t-shirt there's baseball shirts they're really cool tell me about the design of these shirts i see four of them you don't see what i'm putting up on the screen right now but there's one like a circular one and it looks like the jason use that voivod album it kind of looks like that there is there is one drawing that represents planet earth a very polluted planet earth floating in space uh this one i did for the booklet of the self-titled album in 2003 the first one we did with jason um there is a design from 93 like this alien with a third eye a third eye on the forehead this one i did in 93 during the other limits days with ink but it was never used for anything and there is another one that's a mercury sign for the phobos album the eric years so try to represent different periods right there and there are these are exclusive to the Kickstarter so everybody just if you can donate if you want no pressure we're not pressuring people we're just saying okay we are we are we are halfway through now i just i just so the pressure is on turn the screws as they say turn the screws let's it what do you think about these eras all right when you when you look back at the e-force here right to me i i find it when they when you guys first came out these albums i was a little taken back you know but over the years i've grown to appreciate these albums you know oh yeah i mean you know i was there on every album behind the drums and i'm proud of everyone of them so this this was a great period actually in the mid 90s where metal had a bit of a lower profile because of grunge but um we were touring a lot and had a great time and the albums were not selling a lot but still that's i'm i have very fond memories of this period it was unfortunate that it was cut short with a bad accident we had in 98 in germany on our way to walk and so it really cut the cut the wind off our wings right there you know let me ask you there's a voivod album that's is there maybe the question should be like this is there an unreleased voivod album just sitting there like that people have not heard there are demos of an unreleased album uh that we did um and um i would love to it was supposed to be produced by steve albini but uh we ended up splitting the band and uh so the demos are there i am i'm really hoping i can release that uh on the box set uh of the eric years someday it's 12 songs and it's sort of um a voivodian metaphor of eric's recovery after the accident and so it's it's just too bad uh we got the disillusioned after a while and i think it i think it was at the end of the year 2000 where we decided to split the band and eventually uh uh reunited with snake and got jason involved you know i always think about do you ever play the jason jason era music live yeah yeah uh we uh last year we played rebel robot and that's why jason came on stage with us oh yes yes yes i forgot he he also played uh the song voivod with us and uh rocky had the we had two bases for the voivod song it was great and i forgot about rebel robot yeah yeah that's right and uh and these days we are playing rise uh the uh from the eric years yeah i mean and i i think that's pretty cool that you celebrate all the eras and you don't sort of exclude like you just you just take them all in and you play them all i think that's amazing yeah every year it's getting more difficult but we really tried to make a good survey of our career but we have such an extensive catalog these days uh even a song from every album is too much you know so uh we sometimes we have to skip a period and uh but we we still i mean these days we play condemned to the gallows it's like the first song we ever wrote and recorded so uh this was fun to revisit but uh it's funny because when we decided to uh re-record that for the more got more got more details and album we realized we didn't have the lyrics for the song and we couldn't really uh hear what was going on on the middle massacre version and um uh but snakes mom still had the lyrics it was written on the school paper with snake left-handed left-handed writing all smudgy and stuff man unbelievable parents says nice to see snake and you at girl school last week yeah walking out and supporting the local scene did you enjoy the show such an amazing show like uh uh total park middle like i love and uh and great vibes in the room everybody's smiley on stage and in the crowd and i had an amazing time and of course i saw many many many friends you know and it was really cool yeah uh uh there's one guy here from mexico thank you away thank you for the music your art your work with voivod has inspired me to still continue here it's been really tough times for me but voivod music in the world that matters always stand up for something that makes you feel life is still worth living so it's a it's a positive message yeah i'm 29 years old from mexico and voivod has been my favorite band from since i was a teenager always will be and always will be grateful what do you when you go around the world do you are you surprised like you go to i don't know mexico or you go to different parts outside of north america and there's people who love the band and follow how do you feel how does that make you feel like knowing so many parts of the world love the band it's it's really unbelievable and i would have never thought 41 years ago that i would still be touring the world and and of course like let's say um in the early 90s the eastern europe opened their doors to us and but and but it's always surprising for me to get there and realize how many people are aware that we exist and they are really really into the band and and i don't think i don't take it for granted when somebody comes to me saying that our music really inspired them through difficult times because i myself was sort of saved by rock and roll many times you know and where i would i would totally take refuge in music and so i'm always impressed when our music has the same effect on younger generation and it's it's really cool because i really thought in the 90s that we would disappear be forgotten and now there are there are many many generations into boy god at least it fills up the clubs you know and they're like very young people singing the lyrics to all the songs and our old friends with their kids and so yeah it's it's it's a really good life and we had many many obstacles where we had to take a step aside and and decide if we were going to keep going or not and every time what brought me back to music was the traveling parts and meeting my new and old friends and it's i've been i've become addicted to it and it's and it's an amazing cultural experience and every night after the show i draw my day in this every specific city and i post it online it's going to be my next art book oh i like that that's cool that's so cool uh voivod role says it's andrew by the way what do you think of bands especially younger death metal bands today who list voivod as a huge impact in their music does that that's also another level right it's one thing to have fans appreciate and you touch fans but now you're touching bands yeah and there's bands who sound like voivod they go you know that sounds like voivod you know it yeah i mean you know um i call them piggy cords piggy cords i i uh denida more really came came up with a very strange way of approaching music and it has influenced a lot of guitar players and i think the the band voivod probably opened the doors to uh younger bands that uh decided to explore different style of music and incorporate prog rock into their metal and so on and so sometimes i hear the influence but i'm not too sure if it's uh because we share the same love for let's say killing joke or rush or but many of these younger bands will actually come to me and saying you are being influenced and it's always uh i don't like some people would be offended and and and say that uh younger bands are ripping them off but to me it's like a compliment for sure yeah flattery is a compliment that's for sure yeah and let's let's i'm gonna say this as we're doing this back to the commercial break back to the commercial break if you want to help the band and that's what we're doing today we're talking we're chatting and we're we're seeing if it could raise enough funds to uh to get money to finish the voivod film and the fans it's it's fan driven from the from what Felipe sent you sent you and he sent me is this film did not qualify for like many so people don't know this that you could go to the federal government and you could apply for a grant to do a movie right but this film did not qualify because there's got to be certain uh different criteria to meet to qualify to get money so you're all on your own it's this is a fan movie right yeah the fans are helping yeah yeah it's we tried our best to get money from the government and different organizations but uh we had to uh the fact is we have to uh sell finance it but of course the people into voivod are really loyal and uh so they are they are financing the movie and we're trying to supply goodies uh whenever they contribute and the IP passes and uh to the shows and so um but yeah it's going to be a movie financed by people into voivod which is truly truly fantastic I mean you know gone are the 80s where some big guy with a lot of money is going to give you know a band uh you know all this money to finance a movie those those days don't exist anymore you know it's gone to the grass roots right now it's the grass roots it's the fans who are gonna you know help make this movie a reality yeah it's uh even uh even um like uh the labels don't invest as much in in two bands as uh when we started in the 80s uh where there was a budget for recording a budget for touring a budget for video and a budget for everything promotion and so uh it's not the same these days and many uh many bands have had to go back to the DIY way of seeing things and uh scale down a bit and uh take it smaller and uh we were a bit we were surprised a lot when when we started touring again in 2022 how everything uh the cost of everything went up skyrocket skyrocket like uh plane tickets uh hotel rooms a tour bus the crew everybody's trying to catch up with the loss of the few years during the covid period and we are really paying for it and so uh we have to be really really cautious in everything we do these days uh if we want to live uh from our music you know but we are being successful at it but it's a lot of work we're super dedicated and uh we try to supply a lot of material to the people in Tuvoiva we try to tour as much as we can go everywhere and um so uh if anything I think will be uh remembered uh remembered as an example of dedication I agree everything you said is is like and and sometimes because somebody is a band is so dedicated it goes people could see it it's not bullshit it's not fake you know um and and the one thing with us is after the show we immediately go to the merch booth to chat with everybody and sign everything we can and it's really part of the cultural experience of touring for us uh aside from walking around the club in the day you know and so it's it's really fun to meet with everybody show after show after show and I think that's why people are ready to support us whenever we are in need of uh finishing a project or you know we try to um we try to uh we don't want to do crowd funding uh too many times because we don't want to demand too much money from everybody and we know how times are but this project has been in the works for so long it'd be a great uh it'd be a great time to release it uh finally um and uh I think uh it uh since there since there'll be a physical release it's going to be a good uh add up to the collections of everybody as well you know some really good points um you don't want to overdo it with the fundraising right but I think this but I don't think you have it's just you know this is your final phase right now I think it's there's a lot of validity to it but I get it you don't want to overdo it either right and I don't think you guys do that you know you don't want to you respect your fans but uh you know um Jean Guy Rubberboots says Akkadian from New Brunswick here when the DVD gets released will they include the live streams as bonus material so you did those those two live stream you did uh we did uh we did three of them we called them the hypercubes we called them the hypercube sessions and uh so the first one was like a survey of our career the and the second one was the nothing faced album and then the number three was dimension hathras or the other way around but we did three of them and it's a very interesting question I will discuss that with Philippe there you go yeah I didn't think about that right now they are available um for very cheap for streaming on voivo.com but it'd be great to have it available and we were we were offered to to release them on vinyl and that's another angle that I'll be looking into but yeah that's a great great secret there you go so see that we had the chat and now you thought of a new idea and that's let's let's let's let's get it done let's get it done okay all right what else do you want to say about the documentary that we haven't talked about is there anything that you want to talk about that's important that you want I'm looking at the notes here um what else is important about this documentary you like to share oh I mean you know there is so much material there I think that let's say just going through the Glenn Robinson interview who produced Nothing Face with us you really get all the details about how he approached his way of recording and producing an album and and so if me myself can learn a lot watching the new cut of the movie I think the people into Voivode will learn a lot and of course we're trying to explain the story with as much detail because as we can because of course everybody in the in the band right now has been interviewed so we get the angle from Rocky we get the angle from Chewie and as Snake and I did a lot of interviews with Felipe and so if you are really into knowing all the details and it's really it's really there and we're trying to make it as visual as we can like I said I supplied the Felipe with a lot of art all of my archives and all the all the months I spent during covid in my apartment at least allowed me to scan everything and so he's busy animating that and it's a pleasure for me to see my it's always a pleasure for me to see my art animated and I'm always blown away because I'm being a rock and roll drummer keeps me from animating my art at home because I'm always on tour and so whenever Felipe does a video for us or above the Void or more AI oriented they feed the AI with my art whenever whenever I see the result I'm always blown away that my visual world is being is alive in front of my eyes and I think that people will also enjoy this artsy side of the movie as well Felipe is working really hard on it right now amazing um and this parent just remind me you guys are playing with May 16th insane stash in outside of Montreal north of Montreal are there any other shows that you're playing yes we are playing um I think it's the day after and Sherbrooke at the Granada theater it might be the day before center stash or the day after but it's right back to back you know and then short run in Europe in July but a lot of time is going to be spent writing finishing up the new album this summer so when you went and I guess this is my last question so when do you think it's going to be ready the new album like what's the target what's is it like next year 2025 yeah next year we're not aiming for this year uh you have to the production delays in terms of vinyls and all that it's a lot longer than back in the days and you have to think way ahead these days with a few singles coming out before the release and a couple of videos and so uh definitely next year but not this year um uh this year will uh will mainly write it I think are you so you're now at the sort of demo stage is that what you're saying you're sort of putting ideas together yeah we we have 10 plates for about 10 songs but they are only like basic ideas that we have to jam at the rehearsal studio and turn it into real voy voy in the material but at least like I said um when we wrote synchro anarchy uh it was right in the middle of pandemic we couldn't uh go to the studio so we uh learned how to uh start an album uh on um while socially distancing and uh but um it's there's nothing like going to the studio the four of us and jamming the material that's really really where it happens but at least um this new technique that we have it's a good head start and it makes for very good demos as well but if I have to do it at home I don't have a proper setup with my drum kit so I have to program the drums to for to get the ideas flowing and then but I uh it's um I uh normally I can't wait to go to the studio to bang on real drums you know that's that's what I uh I live for John is saying Minnesota Ken is saying Minnesota so I guess they want you to go to Minnesota write it down yeah we just played Minneapolis with Prong though it was a wonderful night but uh yeah we love uh we love to uh we always love to go across USA ever since the first tour with Celtic Frost in 86 which was demented and it's it's always uh it uh it was a cultural shock back then it still is today because even though they are neighbors of us it's a different country for sure you know any any cool memories with the Tom uh Tom warrior with Celtic Frost oh man that tour was insane um there was a place in San Diego where we were attacked by skinheads and on stage they turned into a big brawl and um there was uh um the first show in Chicago uh uh Tom was frustrated with the sound and he pushed the the the stack of Marshall down on the the stage but he didn't know that Piggy's Marshall head was on top of it it was destroyed the first show and uh but yeah it was an amazing tour because we shared the tour bus with Celtic Frost and they had hired the band Corona as a crew so the atmosphere in the bus was fantastic we were everybody had had his own collection of cassettes so somebody would play uh misfits and then immediately after Tom would play uh Frank Sinatra and then uh the Marquis uh from corner we played the the the newer industrial movement that was going to appear you know very very early ministry and so yes uh fun times and after every show there were like 50 cars following us to the hotel it was insane like like you know here you are you know like English is not your first language you're just going to the United States everybody speaks English there right I mean is there like a sense of a little you're you're kind of scared you can't communicate or like now okay now is a different story but back then we're talking well we uh we barely uh knew how to speak for uh English and we learned a lot because of that that's how we learned to speak English um uh that's uh while we were touring basically uh at first with Celtic Frost and then right after we possessed and then the world tour with creator and uh uh Rocky which uh plays bass with us these days uh well for the past 10 years you know he's not a newbie anymore and uh but the new guy the new guy barely when we started he barely spoke English at all and I saw him learn English very quickly on the road it reminded me of us uh 40 years ago so it's great oh yeah actually and this is my final question my final final question the movie okay there's French there's English what are you doing in terms of subtitles is is it is it just goes back and forth between French and English and English subtitles French subtitles oh it will be uh there'll be subtitles in uh Quebec or French uh Italian uh Spanish Spanish I'd have to ask Philippe if he's thinking of more but uh yeah many languages will be available as subtitles uh he's working on it right now because I think he wrote in his little uh he said that it will be translated into many languages that's all I got yeah I got Quebec French standard French Spanish Italian oh boy it's a lot that that's amazing that's amazing yeah yeah it's uh is uh is a hardworking dude and also uh like whenever he promises something uh for um for the Kickstarter you can make sure that the person who invested will receive the 3d poster or the t-shirt he does everything himself is uh is uh yeah and either he he knows how to clone himself or maybe he's a time traveler or he has knowledge of quantum physics I don't know how he does all that man well you know what I'm looking forward to seeing this movie I'm very excited I've been looking forward to it watching it for like about six seven years now but hopefully it'll be completed and I'll show the pictures one last time you can uh you know if you pledge more than the Kickstarter link is in the description of the video you go there you don't send me the money we've stated that we'll state it again do not send me the money send the money to Voivod they need to complete they need another I think 15,000 I think it's around there yeah to get to finish and make it a theatrical release it takes a lot of money there this is self-financed this is grassroots this is all by the fans you can if you pledge more than 30 dollars they'll even give you a t-shirt right you get a t-shirt for more can you you can't ask for more for that you know you're actually getting something also if you if you pledge more than 30 dollars but you shouldn't do only do 30 dollars you should do 100 dollars and get a t-shirt just because the band's so great anything counts you know and I'm sure we're gonna I think we're gonna be able to wrap up this movie and uh which is great because um um I I mean you know I I didn't see um how can I say I didn't need to see the movie to know what happened because I was there you lived I really enjoyed watching it today I can tell you okay well I'm looking forward to it when it's when it comes out and once y'all I will be the first to buy a ticket and go see it and uh you want to end off uh in French just tell everybody what's going on in French is show dates it's amazing all right away thank you so much michelle have yourself a wonderful night everybody thank you for tuning in thank you for all the questions and uh good luck on everything I'm really wish you a lot of luck thank you jimmy thanks for your help