Voivod and the 1984 demo tape that changed heavy metal

Canada's Voivod are one of heavy metal's most unique, beloved treasures. Now their extraordinary early recordings are getting an official releaseFor Voivod's drummer Michel Langevin – known as Away, supposedly owing to a now impossible-to-perceive "aloof nature" – real life began when he was 17, in August 1980, with the North American release of the first Iron Maiden LP. Away had been born in Jonquière, a freezing, industrial logging town in Francophone Quebec, and his first experience of m...

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