War and pain
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September 11, 1984 |
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March 1984 |
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| Label (s) | Metal Blade Records | |||
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LP, MC |
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Title (number) |
9 |
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Voivod |
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Studio (s) |
Le Torroir, Chicoutimi |
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War and Pain is the debut album by the Canadian metal band Voivod . It was released on September 11, 1984 by Metal Blade . The music magazine Rock Hard counted the album in June 2009 among the 250 Thrash Metal albums that one should know .
history
A copy of a Voivod demo was sent to Brian Slagel of Metal Blade Records through music journalist Wayne Archibald . He offered them to contribute a song to his compilation Metal Massacre # 5 , which was followed by the contract for the debut album. The album was recorded in March 1984 at Le Torroir Chicoutimi . Usually jingles were recorded in this recording studio . The band was only in the studio for three or four days and only had a few takes available to record the songs . The record cover, drawn by drummer Away, shows a cyborg named Voivod, as he might look after a nuclear war . The album was released on September 11, 1984.
After the release, there were differences between the band and Metal Blade. The musicians felt unsupported and said that War and Pain was selling well, but that they had not received any royalties from the label . This eventually led to the break with Metal Blade.
Music style and lyrics
Musically Voivod was mainly inspired by Motörhead and wanted to be the loudest band in the world. The lyrics are about nuclear weapons and nuclear war , inspired by the text statements of bands like Discharge , Conflict and Dead Kennedys , who were directed against the nuclear weapons policy of the USA . The album is characterized by the still poor playing skills of the musicians, the emphatically rough production fits this , the singing of Snake was one of the most extreme things that had been recorded in the metal scene until then . The album shows that the roots of the Voivod sound of the later years are in heavy metal of the early 1980s, and it is similar in production and sound to contemporary albums like Metallica's Kill 'Em All .
Reviews
The British music magazine Kerrang! ruled in 1984 that Voivod was the worst band in the world.
Track list
- Voivod - 4:14
- Warriors of Ice - 4:57
- Suck Your Bone - 3:33
- Iron Gang - 4:16
- War and Pain - 4:54
- Blower - 2:43
- Live for Violence - 5:10
- Black City - 5:08
- Nuclear War - 4:28
Web links
- War and Pain at Allmusic (English)
- Review of War and Pain In: Rock Hard # 8, 1984.
supporting documents
- ↑ Götz Kühnemund : 250 Thrash albums that you should know . In: Rock Hard . No. 265 , June 2009, p. 75 .
- ↑ Michael Barclay, Ian AD Jack, Jason Schneider: Have Not Been the Same: The CanRock Renaissance 1985–1995 . ECW Press, Toronto 2011, ISBN 978-1-55022-992-9 , pp. 104 f .
- ^ Greg Salter: Voivod Interview . In: Metallic Assault Fanzine . 1985 ( voivod.net ).
- ↑ a b c d e Jeff Wagner: Mean Deviation: Four Decades of Progressive Heavy Metal . Bazillion Point Books, 2010, ISBN 978-0-9796163-3-4 , pp. 106 .
- ^ Voivod interview. Discography review with Away (part one: 1984–1991). In .: Rock Guerilla.tv Vol. 22 , DVD supplement to Rock Hard , issue No. 308, December 2012.
- ^ Voivod interview . In: Metal Mania . 1986 ( voivod.net ).
- ^ Monte Connor: Away Interview . In: Metal Mania . October 1987 ( voivod.net ).
- ↑ Mike Exley: Interview with Snake . In: Metal Forces # 21 . 1987 ( voivod.net ).
- ^ Greg Prato; Review of War and Pain , Allmusic , accessed December 16, 2012.