Voïvod ‎– Rrröööaaarrr (2017, Deluxe Edition, 2CD+DVD)

Date: July 21, 2017

Remastered, with the CD versions containing a whole host of addition extras including a double CD of the album, a live set and an additional DVD of live performances, rehearsals and photos all compiled from the bands own personal archives.

Voivod is a band with a truly remarkable sound. They really put themselves on the metal map by creating a style that is unmatched by any other band, mixing punk, thrash and progressive styles in their work. They did, however, start out as a thrash metal band, and that meant showing some of the trademarks of thrash, but, since this is Voivod, we're talkin' here, this thrash album has a bit of a twist. As the band's sophomore effort, "Rrröööaaarrr" shows plenty of trademarks of a typical thrash metal band, but Voivod, particularly guitarist Denis "Piggy" D'Amour, decides to spice it up a bit. The e-note rhythm, a common trait of thrash metal, is present on the album, but when paired with unusual chord patterns, the thrash on the album is anything but typical. An excellent example of this is "Thrashing Rage", one of my personal favorite tracks. While it does start off with a chugging e-note and some basic power chords, it kicks into the first verse using chord patterns not found in songs from other thrash metal bands. If you remove these chord patterns, however, you'd just end up with a song that you would expect to hear from another Bay Area thrash metal band, cos they're basically the only thing that separates the sound of "Rrröööaaarrr" from albums from other bands. These chord patterns would eventually give way to diminished and augmented chords as the band's career went on.

The vocals of Denis "Snake" Belanger are almost typical of thrash metal too, but those would gradually change with the band's albums as well. In every song on this album, Snake uses a growling, gruff voice with a more aggressive tone, somewhat like Dave Mustaine's. Needless to say, his gruff voice could be another trademark of thrash metal bands, as most of their vocalists seem to share this aspect. Snake's voice would get less and less gruff, and more and more smooth to accommodate the band's ever-changing sound as the years passed. Also common with thrash metal is the few number of time signatures that usually take up each song. On "Rrröööaaarrr", each song usually consists of one to two different time signatures, and "Thrashing Rage" doesn't really change its time signature until the last few seconds of the song. Again, the bizarre chord patterns are what made "Rrröööaaarrr" a more unique thrash metal album. Some songs, like "Slaughter in a Grave" have only one tempo, another factor that proves that Voivod was yet to reinvent themselves. Though there might be very few different time signatures in each song, that doesn't mean that these tempos can't be complex. The band proves that with "Korgüll the Exterminator", where in the chorus, the drummer, Michel "Away" Langevin, uses a odd drumbeat. This also proves that Voivod was unlike any thrash metal band around at the time, which would only aim to play as fast as possible and completely disregarding how complex their time signatures should be.

Even though "Rrröööaaarrr" isn't as complex as any album that came afterword, it does still have some aspects that differentiate Voivod from other bands. That odd, crunching guitar playing of Piggy, the gruff vocals of snake, and the odd tempos of Away are all present on this album. In the years to come, however, their talents would be even more prevalent, as the band shifted its focus away from thrash metal and towards progressive metal, putting in many different musical influences along the way.

Original Album Tracklist :

1. Korgull The Exterminator - 4:58
2. Fuck Off And Die - 3:37
3. Slaughter In A Grave - 4:06
4. Ripping Headaches - 3:13
5. Horror - 4:10
6. Thrashing Rage - 4:34
7. The Helldriver - 3:45
8. Build Your Weapons - 4:45
9. To The Death! - 5:10

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Spectrum '86 - No Speed Limit Weekend, Live In Montreal, October 1986 Tracklist :

1. Korgull The Exterminator (Spectrum '86) - 6:19
2. Ripping Headaches (Spectrum '86) - 4:08
3. Blower (Spectrum '86) - 2:32
4. Fuck Off And Die (Spectrum '86) - 4:32
5. Tornado (Spectrum '86) - 5:36
6. Iron Gang (Spectrum '86) - 3:54
7. War And Pain (Spectrum '86) - 4:55
8. Warriors Of Ice (Spectrum '86) - 4:33
9. Nuclear War (Spectrum '86) - 7:32
10. Overreaction (Spectrum '86) - 4:28
11. The Helldriver (Spectrum '86) - 3:30
12. Ravenous Medicine (Spectrum '86) - 5:28
13. Voivod (Spectrum '86) - 3:15
14. Thrashing Rage (Spectrum '86) - 5:18

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DVD - Audio :

Rrröööaaarrr Rough Mix Demo 1985
1. Korgüll The Exterminator - 4:38
2. Fuck Off And Die - 3:31
3. Slaughter In A Grave - 3:59
4. Ripping Headaches - 3:10
5. Horror - 4:07
6. Trashing Rage - 4:39
7. Helldriver - 3:36
8. Build Your Weapons - 4:36
9. To The Death! - 5:03

Anachronism Live 25/06/83 (First Show) (73:43)
1. Voïvod
2. Black Metal
3. Struck By Lightning
4. Eye Of The Storm
5. Angel Dust
6. Ace Of Spades
7. Witching Hour
8. Chainsaw
9. Condemned To The Gallows
10. Rapid Fire
11. Heart Of Stone
12. Leave Me In Hell
13. Treason
14. Killing Time
15. Stay Clean
16. Welcome To Hell
17. Blower
18. Steeler
19. Gunslinger
20. Stone Dead Forever
21. Voïvod

Early Rehearsals 1983-1984 (78:34)
1. Nuclear War Part 1 (Voïvod '83)
2. Improvisation (Voïvod '83)
3. Nuclear War Part 2 (Piggy & Blacky '83)
4. Earth Mother (Piggy, Blacky & Away)
5. Stay Clean (Piggy, Blacky & Away)
6. Steeler (Piggy, Blacky & Away)
7. Gunslinger (Piggy, Blacky & Away)
8. Electric Eye (Piggy, Blacky & Away)
9. Stone Dead Forever (Piggy, Blacky & Away)
10. Improvisation (Piggy 1984)
11. Piggy Sound Collage 1980

DVD - Video :

Live, NYC, N.Y., USA - 05/05/86 - First U.S. Show (39:46)
1. Thrashing Rage
2. Warriors Of Ice
3. Korgüll The Exterminator
4. Fuck Off And Die
5. Live For Violence
6. Order Of The Blackguards
7. Nuclear War
8. Voïvod

Live At Long Beach, C.A., USA - 06/13/86 (28:03)
1. Thrashing Rage
2. Warriors Of Ice
3. Korgüll The Exterminator
4. Fuck Off And Die
5. Live For Violence
6. Nuclear War

Live At Jonquiere High School, QC, Canada - 12/20/84 - Morgoth Invasion (37:05)
1. Build Your Weapons
2. Warriors Of Ice
3. The Helldriver
4. Horror
5. Black City
6. Nuclear War
7. War And Pain

Live At Jonquiere Cultural Center, QC, Canada 01/27/84 - To The Death! (79:55)
1. Voïvod
2. Condemned To The Gallows
3. The Helldriver
4. Live For Violence
5. War And Pain
6. Incantation
7. Buried Alive
8. Suck Your Bone
9. Blower
10. Slaughter In A Grave
11. Nuclear War
12. Black City
13. Iron Gang
14. Evil
15. Bursting Out
16. Warriors Of Ice

+ Slideshows Artwork (1983-86)
+ Live & Studio Photos (1985-86)

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