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Rating: I have just returned home, in the unbearable heat of these last weeks.
Back from the new excursion that saw me reach the CAI Andolla Refuge in the late morning, high in Valle Antrona at over 2000 meters of altitude. The peace of the senses, enveloped as always by the imposing silence of the mountains; and throughout the duration of my ascent, I had this work in mind. Immense mountains and immense the Canadian Voivod.
It’s only right to tell you about the album, without even putting my weary body under a necessary shower. I may have time later, perhaps...
It's the “Negatron” tour; we are in the spring-summer of 1996; the first four tracks were recorded in the Netherlands at the Dynamo Open Air Festival. The remaining seven in that place of absolute reverence called CBGB in New York (and here the memory inevitably leans towards the RAMONES who in the small and smoky club laid the foundations of their myth in the mid-seventies).
First official live of Voivod after an already long career that has seen them as protagonists with a series of albums that made the history of Metal.
The power trio is a post-war residue of the stellar Thrash wars of the eighties; obsessed with science fiction, the war of the worlds, and everything that revolves around these seismic affairs. In their musical journey, they have created a completely unique and unrepeatable sound, starting from a very fast, sinister, and convulsive Punk-Thrash; reaching, with the records of the nineties, a hybrid form of Prog-Metal with bizarre and very sick Psychedelic inserts.
The original singer Snake has temporarily left the band; the vacant spot is filled by the competent Eric Forrest who does not possess the vocal flexibility of his predecessor. This is the only minimal flaw of an otherwise granitic work overflowing with post-metallic forays, with a further hardening of the band’s sound.
Eleven healthy and violent blows that open with the Heavy spatiality of “Insect” where the guitar of the late Piggy stands out as a protagonist right away. We go back in time because it’s the turn of the auditory earthquake with the name “Tribal Convictions”: a ferocious dark and penetrating ride taken from “Dimension Hatross” (for me the best album of the Canadians). Fury knows no limits or pauses as other very dark pearls from their distant past are played: “Nuclear War”, “Ravenous Medicine”, “Voivod”. True pagan anthems of stunning and sadistic beauty.
It closes with the cover of “In League With Satan” by Venom: an indispensable track of another Metal legend...PLANET HELL...
Diabolos Risng 666.
Tracklist and Lyrics
01 Insect (05:31)
Mindless, now you will do as you're told
Restore, worship the god of control
Victims, helpless
New Slave, brain dead
Betray thy god
Facing endless damnation
Prepare, we'll have a new world our own
Regress, withdraw and you'll burn alone
Maintain respect
Obey Insect
Twisting your fate
Facing endless salvation
People from the outside
Craving for utopia
Nowhere near perfection
Future desolation
Join in now, join in now
Join in now, join in now
Promising heaven, celestial home
Inside your head now, insect has grown
There is no problem to analyse
Leaving this wasteland towards the sky
No need to worry, you're in the zone
Mind control fury, whispering tone
Overbearing manipulation
Impure, sadness, manic depression
Victims, helpless
New slave, brain dead
Betray thy god
Facing endless damnation.
04 Tribal Convictions (05:37)
Dance for masters...primitive
Full of colors...offensive
I've just arrived
Like a flash in the dark
My life has been
Lit up like a spark
They turn around the big fire
They sing a song to get higher
I've just got here
To find underbrains
I'll watch their voodoo
That starts the rain
Are there any forces
Are there two faces
Are there some chances
We've never seen...that before
It's what we've been...waiting for
It just arrived
To save our lives
The flying lord
The god of all time
Have no idea....what it thinks
But have no fear...we trust it
It is the leader
Of our sacred wars
Came from the sky
It rules so far
Are there any forces
Are there two faces
Are there some chances
They're searching for something
Something to believe in...
Their convictions
Blood effusion
Is it a crime
Their convictions
Self-destruction
At the right time
Their convictions
Exploitation
Under the sigh
It's gonna be more
It's gonna be war
It's gonna be...
Who's the god
Who's the dog
Who's the dog
Who's god...Who's dog
Who's god...Who's dog
Who's god...Who's dog
Who's god...Who's dog
05 Nanoman (05:07)
Side effects of tunnel vision
Technofix of silicone
Noise that wanders like a liquid
Cyber shaman anarchy
Useless memory transistor
Pressure in my surgery
Nanoman they let you wander
Like a child and then they fill you
Full of things, then you'll turn to
Nanoman
Atomic levels of vibration
Plastic backwards ego freak
Question thinking focus unit
Replicator fog unreal
Nanoman they let you wonder
Like a child and then they fill you
full of things, then you'll turn to
Nanoman
In the age of erosion
The end is signalled by machine
Will can orchestrate the atoms
High pitched metal centuries
Satellites destroy an eye blink
A million atoms dance alone
Nanoman they let you wonder
Like a child and then they fill you
full of things, then you'll turn to
Nanoman...
06 Nuclear War (05:20)
Fast and pure desolation
Lust the blood in my brain
Hard and dry destruction
Wet under the neutron rain
Die in this Holocaust
Scream the deflect attack
Burn before we reload
Strees before...
The power blast
WAR! A command for blood
We scream
DIE! Nothing less than
death we creep
Storm the only weather
Start the directives assassins
Warm inside the under shelter
Wait and fell your broiling skin
Hot oz one disappear
Blight in the atomic detention
Rats it's a survival breed
Destroy with deflagration
I have one track it's to kill
You'll never stop me
Running my evil way
With radioactivity
My machine comes at night
Missiles they stike
Save your life in the dark
For the loud attack
Hey! nuclear war!
I'm realy up tonite
For my last ride
Never returning at home
I'm gonna die
The war machine is not save
And i can't escape
When the bombs will hit
My face, It will drive me insane
07 Planet Hell (04:18)
Now, is this real?
Much too real
hell, planet hell
much too real
chemical weapons
burning citizens
body count rising
chaos
digital combat
ruin and debris
decomposed bodies
rancid, planet
hell, planet hell
much too real
deadly enemy
murderous machines
countless homicide
conflict
country vs. country
social anarchy
deconstruct order
anguish, planet
hell, dwell, die, why?
Planet in despair
paralysed with fear
frequent suicide
downfall
technical abuse
nature in decay
nuclear demise
outrage
Hell, dwell, die, why?
Hell, dwell, die...
08 Negatron (07:27)
High, some positron
speeding ion
cruising along
low, down inward flow
magnetosphere
negative glow
now, what's going on
Motive, unclear
There's something wrong
Yes, hypnotronik
Polarity
Rising sun
No, guide lining lead
Generator
Breaks over me
So close to the core
Lay down, here comes
The negatron
Maybe plan a-1 should be
to make a b-line out of here
sub-electrosquad
of vagabond
ultra matter
out, get out of here
nucleonik
vacu-vampire
out, get out of here
you magno void
damn negatron
09 Project X (04:41)
Living in this age
imminent destruction
soon to leave this earth
and all it's corruption
until the final day comes
they prepare to ride
so long, into orbit
shadowy programs
guaranteed deception
Apollo 2000 is ready for lift off
and at the darkest hour
they head for the sky
so long, into orbit
one way trip into space
soon will start
new human race
Project X has commenced
new world soon
so different, so different
finally have reached
their docking zone
the president and his crew
find a new home
everything seems perfect
then new problems arise
overpopulation
starts when they multiply
so long, into orbit
start a new nation
11 Ravenous Medicine (04:34)
Another emergency truck keeps rolling fast
Two lane highway and they run on the wrong track
You still don't know that you're never going back
You're going to the science hospital
You guess that your body is still alive
They estimate you're in pretty good health
Good shape for some of our sadistic tests
Doctor said you must stay in bed
Surgical scourge on you
Surgical scourge on you
Electric shock through you
Electric shock through you
Feel the scalpel they cut you with
Going into the experimental room
How much radiation can your body stand?
You did very well, you'll feel better soon
The red cross is turning black
Wake up in another department
You see the nurse with blood on her clothes
They got another experience for today
Maybe the worst of them
Diagnosing the pain, the ravenous medicine
Discovering the cure, the ravenous medicine
Died through illness, the ravenous medicine
Don't care how many organs you gave
Injecting the drugs
'Till you become the slave
Turn off the machine that keeps your heart beating
They're gonna do it to you !!
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