More Voivod

...as promised (I think?), here's another Voivod album for your enjoyment. This is the album directly AFTER 'Nothingface.' It's a little more poppy with less metallic elements, but just as fuckin' weird. Love these guys, for real.

Voivod - Angel Rat

Tracklist:

1. Shortwave Intro
2. Panorama
3. Clouds in My House
4. The Prow
5. Best Regards
6. Twin Dummy
7. Angel Rat
8. Golem
9. The Outcast
10. Nuage Fractal
11. Freedom
12. None of the Above

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Playlist for 9-10-10, brought to you by Aaron of Forte fame

I was off seeing Sleep this past Thursday:
So Aaron from Forte, WIDR's only metal program, filled in for me. He played a ton of stuff that I've never heard of, which is awesome. Here's the podcast and playlist:

Terror Organ - Frontal Lobe Castration
Nurse with Wound - Musical Bovine Spongiform (The Mad Cow Two Step)
Zero Kama - Death Posture
Diamanda Galas - Hee Shock Die
Current 93 - The Dissolution of the Boat "Millions of Years"
Schloss Tegal - Hunting for Humans
The Blizzard Sow - Elastic
James Plotkin - Joy of Disease
Kulfon - Kulfon co z Ciebie Wyrosnie
Nurse with Wound - Beetle Crawls Across My Back
Deutsch Nepal - Poison Free Market
House of Low Culture - Edward
Einsturzende Neubauten - Kreg Den Stadten
John Moran - Susan Atkins on a Night Highway
Galloping Coroners - Tuzitanc (Fire-full Dance)
Maschinenzimmer 412 - August Piccard's Last Nightmare (Live)
Terminal Cheesecake - Black Microdot 1
Boyd Rice & Friends - Tomb of the Forgotten Father
The Gerogerigegege - Side A of It (Excerpt)
Megaptera - Power Vibrations
Null - Part Three

So there, somebody else's version of weirdness for a change. Enjoy. Conversely, if you're into heavy metal (of all sorts), I'll be doing Forte this week, Friday night 11 pm - 2 am, as well as my own program.

Also, here's another Voivod album for your downloading pleasure. This one directly precedes the one I put up last week (Nothingface). These guys are seriously off the hook. Even if you don't like metal, you should probably check it out.

Voivod - Dimension Hatröss

Tracklist:

1. Prolog - Experiment
2. Tribal Conviction
3. Chaosmongers
4. Technocratic Manipulators
5. Epilog - Macrosolutions to Megaproblems
6. Brain Scan
7. Psychic Vacuum
8. Cosmic Drama
9. Batman

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Coolest metal album ever?

This group doesn't really fit in with the program all that much (although they are a bunch of weirdos no doubt), but this album is so goddamn good that I've just gotta put it up here.

Voivod were/are(?) a thrash-metal band from Canada who decided 'hey, fuck thrash-metal, let's just be wackos!' and ended up sounding (to me, anyways) a lot like if Shudder to Think put on some leather and turned their amps up a little. Odd time-signatures and mind-fuck chord patterns abound, dreamy and very UN-metal vocals, plus their songs stick in your head. How many thrash-metal bands can say that?

I'm in the process of discovering their older/newer albums, but it seems like "Nothingface" might be their strongest. Plus, it's got a wicked Syd-era Pink Floyd cover, so dig it:

Voivod - Nothingface

Tracklist:

1. Intro
2. The Unknown Knows
3. Nothingface
4. Astronomy Domine
5. Missing Sequences
6. X-Ray
7. Inner Combustion
8. Pre-Ignition
9. Into My Hypercube

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...dunno what this week's show will be...but tune in midnight-2 Thursday to find out!