War and Pain
War and Pain is the debut studio album from Canadian heavy metal band Voivod, released on August 10, 1984 through Metal Blade Records. According to a 1986 TV interview with the band, it sold over 40,000 copies within 2 years of its release.
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | September 1984[1] | |||
Recorded | June 19–27, 1984 | |||
Studio | Le Terroir Studio, Laterrière (now part of Saguenay, Québec), Canada | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 42:07 (original) 105:01 (20th anniversary edition) | |||
Label | Banzai (Canada) Metal Blade (US) Roadrunner (Europe) | |||
Producer | Voivod, Brian Slagel | |||
Voivod chronology | ||||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 7/10[3] |
Exclaim! | (favourable)[4] |
PopMatters | (favourable)[5] |
Rock Hard | 7.5/10[6] |
Sputnikmusic | 3.5/5[7] |
War and Pain was reissued several times on the CD format (sometimes on different labels in other countries): the first CD issue on Metal Blade in 1987,[8] in 1990 on Enigma; remastered by Metal Blade and reissued in 1994; it was also released in Roadrunner's Pricekillers series (also 1990); and again by Metal Blade in 2004 as a remastered 3-CD boxset (see the 20th Anniversary Edition section for the bonus material).[9][10][11]
A music video was made for the title song "Voivod" and was directed by Dédé Fortin.
Track listing
All lyrics by Denis "Snake" Bélanger and all music by Denis "Piggy" D'Amour, Jean-Yves "Blacky" Thériault and Michel "Away" Langevin, except where indicated.
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Voivod" | 4:16 |
2. | "Warriors of Ice" | 5:04 |
3. | "Suck Your Bone" | 3:30 |
4. | "Iron Gang" | 4:15 |
5. | "War and Pain" | 4:55 |
No. | Title | Length |
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6. | "Blower" | 2:42 |
7. | "Live for Violence" | 5:11 |
8. | "Black City" | 5:08 |
9. | "Nuclear War" | 7:01 |
No. | Title | Length |
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10. | "Condemned to the Gallows" | 5:07 |
"Condemned to the Gallows" was originally recorded for the compilation album Metal Massacre V. Aside from one cassette pressing, "Condemned to the Gallows" was the only track that never appeared on the original LP or CD, nor has it been re-recorded for any future Voivod releases.
20th Anniversary Edition
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Voivod" | 4:16 |
2. | "Warriors of Ice" | 5:06 |
3. | "Suck Your Bone" | 3:32 |
4. | "Iron Gang" | 4:15 |
5. | "War and Pain" | 4:55 |
6. | "Blower" | 2:43 |
7. | "Live for Violence" | 5:11 |
8. | "Black City" | 5:07 |
9. | "Nuclear War" | 7:02 |
No. | Title | Length |
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10. | "Condemned to the Gallows" | 5:07 |
11. | "Blower" | 3:01 |
12. | "Voivod" | 3:50 |
No. | Title | Length |
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13. | "Condemned to the Gallows" | 5:09 |
14. | "Voivod" | 4:41 |
15. | "Iron Gang" | 4:24 |
Disc two: Morgoth Invasion (Live demo, December 1984)
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Build Your Weapons" | 4:42 | |
2. | "War and Pain" | 6:25 | |
3. | "Condemned to the Gallows" | 4:52 | |
4. | "Warriors of Ice" | 5:07 | |
5. | "Helldriver" | 3:57 | |
6. | "Horror" | 3:52 | |
7. | "Black City" | 5:32 | |
8. | "Nuclear War" | 6:32 | |
9. | "Blower" | 3:04 | |
10. | "Live for Violence" | 6:45 | |
11. | "Ripping Headaches" | 3:12 | |
12. | "Iron Gang" | 4:19 | |
13. | "Korgüll the Exterminator" | 4:50 | |
14. | "Suck Your Bone" | 4:25 | |
15. | "Witching Hour" (Venom cover) | 2:51 | |
16. | "Chemical Warfare" (Slayer cover) | Jeff Hanneman, Kerry King | 6:17 |
Bonus CD
- In addition to videos, text, and images, the Bonus CD also contains a 46.5 MB mp3 file consisting of the first 7 tracks from a live demo recorded in January 1984, known as "To The Death."
Personnel
- Voivod
- Denis "Snake" Bélanger – vocals
- Denis "Piggy" D'Amour – guitar
- Jean-Yves "Blacky" Thériault – bass
- Michel "Away" Langevin – drums, artwork
- Production
- Guy Pedneault - engineer
- Brian Slagel - executive producer
References
- "Gatefold of Best of Metal Blade, Vol. 1". Metal Blade Records. Retrieved 2013-05-19.
- Prato, Greg. "Voivod - War and Pain review". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 2017-07-13.
- Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. pp. 400–401. ISBN 978-1894959315.
- Orchard, Rod (1 September 2004). "Voivod - War and pain". Exclaim!. Retrieved 2017-07-21.
- Begrand, Adrien (9 November 2004). "Voivod - War and Pain". PopMatters. Retrieved 2017-07-13.
- Kühnemund, Götz (1984). "Review Album: Voivod - War and Pain". Rock Hard (in German). No. 8. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
- "Voivod - War and Pain". Sputnikmusic. 31 January 2011. Retrieved 2017-07-13.
- Metal-Archives.com (see the additional notes tab for release history and the line-up tab for personnel)
- Main Page for War and Pain on Rate Your Music
- Main Page for War and Pain on Discogs