2014.06.20 Voivod featured in the UK’s The Guardian ‘The 10 best … metal bands’ list
Voivod has been featured in UK Guardian’s writer Phil Mongredien “The 10 best … metal bands” following the controversy of Metallica’s inclusion in the UK 2014’s Glastonbury Festival.
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/jun/20/the-10-best-metal-bands-metallica-glastonbury-rock
The list also features bands such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Rush, Diamond Head, Metallica, Slayer, Guns N’ Roses and System of a Down.
Notoriously absent from the list, is, probably the biggest band on the history of metal, Iron Maiden.
Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth made up thrash metal’s “big four” – they even put aside their rivalries to tour together under that banner in 2010. But plenty of their contemporaries were exploring equally interesting directions, with thriving scenes soon appearing everywhere from the San Francisco Bay area (Exodus, Death Angel, Possessed) to Germany (Tankard, Kreator, Helloween). French-Canadians Voivod, from Quebec, were more of an acquired taste: a review of their debut album in Kerrang! described them as “the worst band on Earth” (and this at a time when Spandau Ballet were still a going concern). By the late 80s, however, they had hit a rich vein of form, blending sci-fi-themed lyrics with influences from psychedelia, prog-rock and punk to often astonishing effect on albums such as Dimension Hatröss and Nothingface.
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