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Topic: voivod giving love to eric forrest
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dueditor
Junior VoivodFan
Member # 1005
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posted September 17, 2007 22:30
    
Some or all of you might have seen the interviews from which these quotes were taken, but it's cool to revisit them in this context.See below to read some comments Snake, Jasonic, and Away have made about Eric Forrest. Very nice.
http://basementbar.com/DefaultN1.asp?GoTo=InterviewN1.asp?ID=131 How do you feel about Phobos and Negatron? Away: These albums were done under difficult circumstances. We feel very proud of those albums. Every time we put an album out it's the best we can do at that period of time. It's the same for this new album. We really worked hard to make sure that we were doing our best. We aren't slackers. If it wasn't for all the difficulties we've had in our career we would've put out forty albums. Jasonic: These albums are different, because of respect Michel and Piggy were there, but Snake wasn't there. For me, the true voice of Voivod is Snake. God bless Eric for what he did for the band and what he went through, he does his own thing, they made some very heavy albums but it's a totally different thing. I didn't spend as many hours listening to those records as I did all the others.
http://www.metalupdate.com/interviewvoivod2.html Metal Update: Were you aware of what Voivod was doing after you'd left? Did you listen to 'Negatron' and 'Phobos'? Snake: Yeah, we kept in touch here and there. Sometimes we'd have a small reunion during Christmas time, things like that, and I would join them when they were playing, singing "Voivod", and I was backstage and everything. I shared what I was doing with them, I was doing Union Made, so we shared tapes and stuff. They were doing 'Phobos' and 'Negatron' and - Metal Update: What do you think of those albums? Snake: Oh, I think they're great. I think for that period of time and the situation they were involved in, they had to focus and get back to the roots of metal and that's what they focused on. From my point of view, that's what I hear, but maybe they'd have something else to say. I think they headed for a really crunchy sound in a way to get back to the band's metal roots. Metal Update: When you were singing with them on stage as a guest, did you feel your re-entry into Voivod was imminent? Snake: Well, back then, it's funny because I didn't know what to expect. I think after a while they had a hard time with Eric and for some reason it didn't work out, but back then when I was watching Eric singing I thought it was great and I was enjoying the lineup as it was. (laughing)
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Slaytanic
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Member # 28
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posted September 18, 2007 17:47
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Originally posted by h:
Phobos is proving to be an absolute classic for me. It's always years later when you find yourself still giving an album regular plays that it confirms it's status. I listen to it a hell of a lot more than the self titled release.
I second that!!! -------------------- "Forty-five moments of perfection translated through a cautionary escape into the perils of the mundane, the inherent entropy in ultimate order, and the potential threats of eternal, unchecked apathy in civilization; all cloaked in musical expression so thoughtful, creative and forward thinking that almost a quarter-century later, few can even comprehend it, much less match it." (autothrall)
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neutronboy2000
VoivodFan
Member # 71
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posted September 28, 2007 03:18
After several issues w/a previous "inter-nought" server putting my online presence in "limbo-incommunicado",I'm back...I really got into the "zooming skyward electro-shock" survivalist machinations of the "Negatron" album!!! Been playing it at "over-loud" level in the car to and from work for the last two days...I'll do the same with the "Phobos" cd on Mon/Tues...Thematically the "Phobos" concepts,of course hits deeper with what may have been sonically on it's predesessor,a tech-paranoic street-metal edge during Earth's last days..."Ericula","E-Force",also the nickname "E-ffect" sounds cooler..as if he was undergoing the volatile 'Voivodian-mutant X-Ray Mirror" process in a series of experiments from "Rise"-great "vampirfic-death squawk" when he belts out "Anark,neuro-perfect"..the dizzingly doom-signal Piggy chord that comes out just at he beginning(repeated 3-4 times)before the vocals-all the way to the "stormy-weather" chorus of "must overcloud...must overcloud" near the end,"Mercury: with it's sulfuric toxic-cloud grooves,"Phobos"-it's the space-spider network watching you,I know the population is building weapons,so it's Phobos Moon,dying star...phobos doom-lying star.."Quantum"-self-replication and conquest-physics","Neutrino"-an even more stark tale of haunting memories than "Cosmic Conspiracy"via languid laser beams-particularly memorable with what sounds like Piggy doing a musical ascending scale of an unstable chemical composition as the elements merge,congeal,react and boil over into Eric's "neuro-corrosive vox" and finally,'Forlorn" with it's sci-fi feel of the Voivod simultaneously creating it's other-selves for the final battle against human rebels/old-age growing pains from the character's many previous adventures from a silicon desert field to outer/inner dimensions,his home planet finally"-Yeah,I know I rambled a lot on this,but as you may or may not tell,I really get a lot of thought-provoking entertainment value from all the Voivod albums and being a sci-fi fan in general--just using my imagination here...Ciao!"in the age of erosion,the end is signalled by machine"- 
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