2023 marks the 40th anniversary of Voivod, a band that are at the very heart of everything we do at Radical Research and everything we listen to as incorrigible music obsessives. In celebration, Voivod released Morgoth Tales, which finds the Mark V lineup (Snake, Away, Chewy, Rocky) covering songs from various past eras. For ourselves, we pay tribute by offering our longest and most in-depth episode yet, while also celebrating a landmark of our own. We invite all chaosmongers, nothingfaces, cockroaches and diehards across the schizophere to join us in celebration of the one, the only, the eternal VOIVOD!!!
Note I:
The reason for this relaunch of this episode is simple: Jeff's Voivod book ('Always Moving - The Strange Multiverse of Voivod') is imminent! You can reserve your copy of this 3 lb., 540-page behemoth here and ONLY here: radicalresearch.org/voivod/
Note II:
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Music cited in order of appearance:
[all Voivod except where otherwise noted]
intros from War and Pain, Killing Technology, Angel Rat, The Wake
“Experiment” (Dimension Hatröss, 1988)
“Blower” (War and Pain, 1984)
“Ripping Headaches” (Rrröööaaarrr, 1986)
Carnivore, “Carnivore” (Carnivore, 1985)
“Forgotten in Space” (Killing Technology, 1987)
Cave In, “Decay of the Delay” (Jupiter, 2000)
“Cockroaches” (Killing Technology, 1987)
“Psychic Vaccum” (Dimension Hatröss, 1988)
“Brain Scan” (Dimension Hatröss, 1988)
Wartech, “Virtual Reality” (demo 1991)
“Missing Sequences” (Nothingface, 1989)
“Into My Hypercube” (, 1989)
“Inner Combustion” (, 1989)
King Crimson, “Larks’ Tongues in Aspic, Part Two” (, 1973)
“Nuage Fractal” (, 1991)
Alchemist, “Escape from the Black Hole” (, 2000)
“Clouds in My House” (, 1991)
Die Kreuzen, “Best Goodbye” (, 1991)
“Best Regards” (, 1991)
“Freedoom” (, 1991)
“Horror” (, 1986)
Rush, “Natural Science” (, 1980)
Van Der Graaf Generator, “Man-Erg” (, 1971)
“Moonbeam Rider” (, 1993)
“Time Warp” (, 1993)
“Phobos” (, 1997)
“Temps Mort” (, 1997)
“Neutrino” (, 1997)
“Aware” (demo for unrealized 10th album, 2000)
“Facing Up” (, 2003)
“Divine Sun” (, 2003)
“Polaroids” (, 2006)
“Corps Etranger” (, 2013) “Iconspiracy” (, 2018)
“Always Moving” (, 2018)
“Quest for Nothing” (, 2022)