VOIVOD To The Death 84 (2xLP)

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Voivod

To The Death 84

Format: 2xLP

Record Label: Alternative Tentacles

Condition: New (sealed)

* Double album reissue of the lost original cassette demo - includes a digital download code.
* Voivod formed in 1983, with a weird hybrid of thrash metal and punk - a sound that made them stand out as a unique band from the beginning. Voivod began as four friends who met in high school and decided to get together to play some heavy music. Growing up in Northern Quebec in an aluminum factory area called Saguenay (which they dubbed "Morgoth Land"), they shared a liking of Venom, Motörhead, Tank, Discharge and GBH, as well as obscure prog and krautrock bands like Van Der Graaf Generator, Faust and Can. They were scared of the threat of a nuclear war and Reagan-era concepts such as the Strategic Defense Initiative, and had a dystopian view of the future. To The Death 84 is 70 minutes of loud, blistering metal/punk. Recorded live in the band's jam space in January 1984 with an old tape recorder and a couple of microphones, it nonetheless sounds great and hits as hard today as it did back then. This demo tape was sent to all the fanzines the band knew of at the time, and has circulated among collectors for years. The lineup for these recordings was Snake (Denis Bélanger) on lead vocals, Piggy (Denis D’Amour) on guitar, Blacky (Jean-Yves Thériault) on bass, and Away (Michel Langevin) on drums. The track listing includes all of the songs which they would later re-record for their debut album War And Pain, plus six additional songs including some that would be re-recorded for their second album Rrroooaaarrr, a Mercyful Fate cover, two Venom covers, and a non-album track "Condemned To The Gallows". This recording did its job - soon the underground world was aware of this strange vampire warlord from the cold - Voivod.
* Track Listing: Voivod / Condemned To The Gallows / Helldriver / Live For Violence / War And Pain / Incantation / Buried Alive/Suck Your Bone / Blower / Slaughter In A Grave / Nuclear War / Black City / Iron Gang / Evil / Bursting Out / Warriors Of Ice

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