VOIVOD - "Tribal Convictions" - Reaction

[@jrhernandezp]

Voivod... one of the greatest progressive bands of all time! Check Nothingface and Angel Rat.

[@aoe301]

Roooaaaarrrrrr.

[@GrayNeko]

TO THE DEATH!

[@SteelSquishy]

Angel Rat ❤❤

[@namegoeshereorhere5020]

Had the pleasure of getting my nose broke by Snake(singer) in the pit at a Slayer show in Montreal in '84(I think). He was very apologetic but his English was pretty limited and he knocked all the French out of me, luckily Away(drummer) was really fluent and we got pretty wasted together after the show. Brilliant band, not well known to the general public but very influential to other bands.

[@LEANNxARI]

Wow! What an epic story!

[@Maddogg-hg5me]

Getting elbowed in the face by the guys from Voivod in a mosh pit would be an honor.

[@Malo-Hombre71]

Dimension Haitross was a concept album that could've been a sci-fi movie about a scientist who opens a parallel universe and is trapped in there. Tribal Convictions is him being perceived as a god who fell from the skies by a primitive culture but found to be a mortal and enslaved that's why the end goes who's god? Who's dog? Snake, the singer has a unique style with his French accent and pronunciation of words to go with the rythm of songs. Voivod is well known for the change ups and tempo. I enjoyed this reaction and got to say the 30 plus years this song has been around the intro to the song is in my top 3

[@manuelrenteria7072]

Dimension Hatross, could have been the soundtrack to the Ant Man Quantum Mania movie.

[@deathbedquestion]

Yep! Think of the landing of Christobal Columbo (Christopher Columbus) in the western hemisphere...

[@imcrazedandconfused]

Hi ladies, nice reaction! Voivod are so special, they are a class of their own. When they appeared on the music scene, they attracted very different people, punks, thrash metal guys, all kind of musicians from harder genres, later also grunge guys. You could not get around them. "Have you heard Voivod already? They do crazy stuff!" Many kinds of musicians were influenced by them, or, at least, somehow were stunned in awe. They have this dissonant style that no one else does or dares to do, it is a musical expression that is not meant to be beautiful but meaningful IMO. It takes balls to do the very own thing, no matter how people will think about it...

[@Kcapgar]

Well said. voivod really are kind of their own thing. I was wayyy into thrash in the late 80s. But gravitated much more toward punk/hardcore and glam punk by the mid 90s. Kind of really out grew a lot of metal and just was kind of over most of it. Voivod stuck though. They are still one of my top all time favs from any genre

[@martin7473]

VOIVOOOOOOOOOOD

[@daviddyer3076]

The mighty Voivod...probably the most unique band in rock/metal. I've never heard anything that sounds like them. Thank you for your reaction.

[@DamnableReverend]

Sounds amazing when the play this live to this day. I don't usually check out "reactio videos" but thsi was posted in a Voivod group on the facebook and I had to poke at it. Cheers!

[@LEANNxARI]

Well thanks for watching my friend!

[@lonlevinholler74]

They're still going and still putting out albums that are years ahead of their time.

[@Hispandinavian]

The Pink Floyd of thrash! When I was a kid back then, I remember the metal fans either loved Voivod or just found them too odd. I loved them!

[@demonicrebellion6903]

and the villain would have his evil plan on a floppy disk.

[@CarcPazu]

I watched that when it came out and it completely changed my life. It was really out there back then and it's still is today. Half the metalheads didn't know what to think of Voivod, it was way too strange for some. Voivod is mostly a band's band. They've influenced everyone else with their weird ass discordant riffs.

[@anonymousprivate6814]

Yes, I saw this at 14 years old and always stuck in my mind.

[@deathbedquestion]

Yep! Origin, Antigama, Vektor, Immolations post-90s material, etc.

[@kraftwerk0243]

The album is actually "Dimension Hatröss" and it was issued in 1988. Interesting reaction. Yes, Voivod is very keen on crazy changes in time signatures and most of these bass / guitar chords don't even "exist" in music, Voivod are masters of dissonance.

[@GrayNeko]

To the death! !m! Great reaction! Confusion is a proper reaction to Voivod! This is a rabbit hole worth diving down!

[@bryandaniel2281]

I can remember going to the record store and buying Voivod's first couple of albums 'War and Pain " and "Roooaaarrrrr". In the beginning Voivod had a raw thrash metal sound influenced by Venom and Discharge. They developed into one of the must unique metal band's in my opinion.

[@pietrayday9915]

The only bands I could compare to Voivod, sound absolutely nothing like them, or each other. A truly unique band!

[@aaronazagoth6373]

This was totally forward thinking music then and it is still.

[@dandaris2153]

This one is from their last studio album, called "The Wake", and is entitled "Always Moving": kzbin.info/www/bejne/iXatg5mpebF5f5I

[@traceyretops423]

Awesome! I bought Voivod's album 'Dimension Hatross', which features Tribal Convictions, based on the cover art and calligraphy by drummer, Away, and the concept blurb on the sleeve. I was blown away. Their early stuff is not an easy listen, but their style and creativity is unique! One of my top bands :-) If a Korean girl-group with rock/metal influences sounds interesting to you, please check out Dreamcatcher! Thanks!

[@suzannealdridge1404]

Voivod my desert island disc, "Dimension Hatross"

[@harrygr8641]

Voivooooooood!!! Nice! Check also their cover of Astronomy Domine (Pink Floyd), my definite favorite cover of all time!

[@danyfortin8992]

Crazy!!!!! I'm serious this band come from my area(Jonquière) they're so underrated and still more popular abroad, USA, Europe and more....

[@russdesaulniers3112]

Soundarden, Metallica and Faith No More used to open for them. When Jason Newsted left Metallica, he joined them. Dave Grohl is a fan. Ryan Adams is a fan.

[@jumpfart666]

Wow! Totally openminded...how cool. This band rules!

[@stromghouls]

they are one of dave grohl favorite bands. you can find a video of him on youtube were he talk about voivod for almost an hour. they come from jonquiere, quebec, canada. i come from the same place as them. it is in the middle of the boreal forest. very long and cold winters. piggy was the master of dissonance. his guitar riffs are extremely weird. toronto is canada trash metal capital of canada, but all the weird technical metal bands come from montreal and other places in quebec. obliveon is another good band from quebec. they are more extreme than voivod, but equally special.

[@fasteddie777666]

Canada's hidden gem....VOIVOD , from the 80'S !!!!!....I seen them at California's roadhouse ....Windsor Ontario Canada !!!

[@manuelrenteria7072]

Voivod's albums are mostly concept albums, a whole story split up in the songs. Highly underrated band, not for everybody. I've been a fan since this album came out. Crossing my fingers hoping they tour the US with Testament this year.

[@martin7473]

One of a kind .. its art.

[@cyanidejunkie]

My band at the time opened up for Voivod. Good memories. Love you ladies.♥️

[@jean-guyd4135]

Just curious what was your band's name........i have seen lots of bands from the MTL region in those years.

[@dethmetl]

Planet Eaters · Voivod just dropped!

[@beaudeeley]

How awesome is it?

[@erifkind]

Every different Voivod album is an incredibly different way to discover them. I first heard the album after this (nothingface) while in art college, and it was so weird that it was the perfect art college album. I was actually surprised by how raw their earlier music was. This album is somewhere in between the thrash and the experimental. AND their new stuff continues to be insanely ambitious!

[@Aeis_Kalt]

Voivod didn't change their style, because they have always played whatever they felt like playing. Speed, Thrash, Prog, Space, Atmospheric, whatever. They have always been miles ahead of the curve, so far ahead that no one actually realizes it, until they finally catch up to where they were 6 years previous.

[@davidkoblentz]

you have to remember this was also a concept album.. the "voivod" was an entity that traveled through a new universe and was describing this universe it entered..

[@ThrashersUnite]

Dimension Hatross is one of their best records and Tribal Convictions is a beast of a track. You should react to some of their stuff on the album "Killing Technology" which preceded this, especially songs like Tornado, Order of the Blackguards and Ravenous Medicine.

[@wayne9311]

Song is from Dimension Hatross

[@fredgorey]

Hell yeah showin the great VOIVOD some love...

[@Whateves73]

Voivod should have been (and should be) huge. Their last three albums hold up to their classic output. Severely under-rated band.

[@Aeis_Kalt]

if Voivod were huge, there would be at a minimum, 30 bands trying to copy them, and doing a terrible job of it. They are one of a kind, because no one tries to do what they do, and no one else should.

[@Whateves73]

@@Aeis_Kalt OK....

[@matthewgodding777]

Now this is a class a recommendation Also the time this came out, the growling thing was a hardcore punk thang. And a little known Floridian innovation called Death Metal that was beginning to appear

[@pietrayday9915]

The growling thing was a hardcore punk thing at the time, and Voivod had already gone through that phase and were progressing into an entirely different dimension by this time! Over the next album or two, they would all but completely lose the heavy metal snarl, and record some of the strangest prog rock ever made. This album sounded absolutely bizarre and alien back in the 1980s when it was released, and it still sounds like something from another universe today. Voivod were way, way ahead of their time: a punk/metal fusion act before it was cool, AND they were doing that over a backbone of jazz in a way that pretty much nobody else has ever done, and were already experimenting with something new while extreme metal bands were finally starting catch onto the genre. Voivod have always been criminally underrated and ignored by most heavy metal fans: they're sort of an extreme metal musician's extreme metal act, in that lots of extreme metal bands realized they were something special, and learned the tricks of their trade from Voivod. Their name is pronounced VOY-vode - the name comes from eastern Europe, by way of the novel "Dracula", and means something like "warlord" or "general"; referring to a sort of recurring character in the stories the band was singing about: The Voivod was an undead alien cyborg warrior-king who would spend centuries at a time asleep, only to awaken and rise from the dead to reconquer his world and return it to a dark age whenever the people would advance technologically to the point where they might destroy their planet. This song came from a concept album in which the Voivod Character, curious about what causes people to try to destroy themselves in apocalyptic wars, devises an experiment in which he creates a tiny galaxy in his laboratory, and visits various planets within that galaxy to study human nature, discovering some new form of social, political, and psychological dysfunction on each new world he visits. In this song, The Voivod visits a primitive world where tribal factions engage in eternal wars with each other, never rising technologically very far above the level of brute savagery, looking for some advantage that will tip the scales in their favor - they think they find that advantage in The Voivod, who they first believe to be a war-god fallen from the sky in his war-machine, but soon decide can be made into a slave who will serve them by leading their battles in conquest against their enemies. The Voivod is left to ponder the nature of the role of an conquering army's leaders: is an tribe's war-chief their master, or is the war-chief really nothing more than a slave to the tribe's insatiable lust for warfare and slaughter, given no choice but to serve as their leader, or be slaughtered himself? Was the Voivod the army's war-god, or its war-dog? (The Voivod's travels in his artificial galaxy, and the things he discovers on his other artificial worlds, would only get stranger from there!)

[@dariofernando5572]

classic one progressive/technical Thrash Metal nice reaction Ari

[@midibenni]

Voivod have also some Radio friendly songs, you definitely love. On that 2003 selftiteled Voivod album with Metallica Bassist Jason Newsted track 13 "We Carry On" is a good song for yre youtube audience.

[@randyjennings6412]

Legendary band

[@rebeluniverse2601]

Hahaha best reaction ever!! btw I'm a Voivod BIG FAN!!

[@ferox965]

Canada represent. One of the greatest bands to ever exist. Psychic Vacuum is one of the creepiest videos ever

[@JPTyler]

Might I suggest something from their "Outer Like" record? "Fix My Heart" might be to your liking.

[@breakdancinfool]

Lol that was hilarious the first time it changed up to heavy thrash and the video became strobe-y and you're eyes tried to keep following it for a sec lol. Haha surprise reaction

[@JeffreySmith84]

Do their song "Overreaction"

[@dennislinehan6548]

Korgull the Exterminator off of War and Pain 🤘💀

[@mecharidley]

it’s in the album Rrroooaaarrr not war and pain

[@randyjennings6412]

VoiVod are so great and non conventional

[@pauliescott]

Voivod was big into Hallucinogens at this time.

[@beaudeeley]

Check out their new song Planet Eaters to see how they have mutated over the years, it sounds like this and yet somehow completely different too.

[@rdevlinf]

That intro changed music

[@rdevlinf]

Everyone on earth that writes music was aware of voivod. Faith no more. Limp biskit, linking park... Foo fighters... all took that intro in one direction or another

[@T.d.Mack74]

Voivod all time fav

[@compulsiveviewingmaterials]

Why not try a song off the new album? Like paranormalium.

[@dregonskreper7609]

I think checking out the song Unknown Knows would give y'all a cooler experience of Voivod (studio version). They became so much more proggy with the album Nothingface that it is out of. I feel the vocals also match much better with that proggy style than with thrash. It is way less heavy sound than their earlier thrash stuff but imo its way more FUN sounding.

[@SuperClarky666]

Its all about opinions but i chose this for them because it was my first song i got into because of the video on mtv.im not really into the first 2 although a few songs are ok but to me killing technology then this album is when they started to change to music i love .my favourite s too are unknown knows and also angel rat .

[@tommyhahn4525]

Why all the Eighties hate?

[@jamesgilliland8551]

Sounds so 80's? you're on glue. your analysis is bush league. go away. CHEERS!

[@aliwantizu]

Hey ladies, I hope y'all are doing well down there in wack-a-doodle Florida! Thank you both SO very much for all that you do for all of us. ~Be Blessed

[@LEANNxARI]

Awww! Thank you my dear ❤

[@MrSFblack]

It's funny you should say you expected harsher vocals on this song, they definitely have songs from this era with the growling vocals.

[@jimmyberubelevesque2557]

VOIVOD!

[@bleustar49]

The tchange of rythmess is calling , guet a , " progressive approtche " Yes, King Crimson, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Supertramp, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Soft Machine, Electric Light Orchestra, Jethro Tull, and i will put HARMONIUM, Metallica and justice fir all ... etc

[@bleustar49]

And you dont ave the guts to analyse the lyrics.... what you dou it exaxcly 🤔🤣😁