Voivod Lives

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Voivod Lives
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Live album by
ReleasedAugust 22, 2000
Recorded Dynamo Open Air, Eindhoven, Netherlands, May 25, 1996 (tracks 1-4)
CBGB, New York City, August 11, 1996 (tracks 5-11)
Genre Industrial metal, progressive metal, thrash metal
Length59:16
Label Century Media (Europe)
Metal Blade (US)
Producer Voivod
Voivod chronology
Kronik
(1998)
Voivod Lives
(2000)
Voivod
(2003)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Exclaim! (favourable) [2]
Rock Hard (favourable) [3]

Voivod Lives is the first full-length live album, and twelfth album overall, by Canadian heavy metal band Voivod. It was released in 2000 on Century Media Records in Europe and Metal Blade Records in the US. The US edition features two bonus tracks recorded in 1999 for a broadcasting on the Swedish Sveriges Radio. [2]

Contents

Track listing

All music is composed by Voivod, except where indicated.

No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Insect" Michel Langevin, Eric Forrest  5:31
2."Tribal Convictions"Voivod 5:37
3."Nanoman"Langevin, Ivan Doroschuk  5:07
4."Nuclear War" Denis Bélanger Denis D'Amour, Langevin, Jean-Yves Thériault 5:20
5."Planet Hell"Langevin, Forrest 4:17
6."Negatron"Langevin, Kiisti Matsuo 7:26
7."Project X"Langevin, Forrest 4:41
8."Cosmic Conspiracy"Langevin, Forrest 6:55
9."Ravenous Medicine"Bélanger 4:34
10."Voivod"BélangerD'Amour, Langevin, Thériault4:37
11."In League with Satan" (Venom cover) Conrad Lant, Jeffrey Dunn, Tony BrayLant, Dunn, Bray5:11
US edition bonus tracks
No.TitleLyricsLength
12."The Prow" (recorded live at Klubben, Stockholm, Sweden on October 14, 1999)Voivod4:05
13."Forlorn" (recorded live at Klubben, Stockholm, Sweden on October 14, 1999)Forrest, Langevin, Karyn Crisis Krol6:51

Personnel

Voivod
Production

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References

  1. Prato, Greg. Voivod Lives at AllMusic
  2. 1 2 Palmerston, Sean (1 October 2000). "Voivod - Voivod Lives". Exclaim! . Retrieved 2017-07-21.
  3. Mühlmann, Wolf-Rüdiger (2000). "Review Album: Voivod - Voivod Lives". Rock Hard (in German). No. 155. Retrieved 20 July 2017.