Michel ‘Away’ Langevin has been weathering the pandemic by doing what he does best: making new music and concentrating on his art. As the drummer and founder member of Voivod, those two creative ...

The Canadian prog-thrash crew Voivod was always idiosyncratic, always ahead of its time. Inspired equally by Rush and Discharge, science fiction and scientific fact, Voivod forged an ambitious and ...

In less than two years’ time Voivod will be celebrating their 40th birthday – and if their current output is anything to go by they will pass this milestone, continuing to challenge fixed notions of ...

Bassist Jason Newsted rejoined his former thrash bandmates (no, not those former thrash bandmates) onstage in Florida as Voivod's tour stopped at Revolution Live in Fort Lauderdale, Florida last night ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

In 1984, four metalheads who called themselves Voivod introduced the world to Quebec underground metal with a screaming sci-fi thrash debut called War and Pain. Twenty-two years and 13 records later, ...

Metal Legacies is an ongoing memorial to extreme music pioneers who kicked the proverbial bucket way too soon. This is only my third Metal Legacies entry, yet it is by far the hardest to write. As a ...

Canadian metallers Voivod have a new face in the band, as Dominic "Rocky" Laroche has joined the band following the exit of the group's longtime bassist Blacky. Voivod revealed just last week that ...

French-Canadian progressive sci-fi metal act Voivod -- which counts Dave Grohl as a fan, has toured with Rush, and once included ex-Metallica bassist Jason Newsted in its lineup -- formed almost 40… ...

Nothing causes band drama like money. Over and over again, we’ve seen bands and current or former members get into disagreements due to one party (usually the member) claiming that the other (usually ...

Voivod guitarist Denis D’Amour, better-known to fans as Piggy, died Aug. 26 at a Montreal hospital after a battle with colon cancer. He was 45. Although fans focused mainly on Voivod’s futuristic ...

Chaosmonger Studio has announced Metroidvania game, Voivod: The Nuclear Warrior, for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam. A Kickstarter campaign will launch in a few ...