He eventually told his bandmates about the concept and they agreed to name their band after that fictious character – Voivod. In Worlds Away (page 28) Michel says that Philippe Druillet’s illustration of a soldier coming out of the ground from the comic book Urm Le Fou was a spark that created the idea of Voivod. He had the elaborated story which he wanted to present in the French Heavy Metal comic book magazine. I also interviewed Away, Snake and Eric Forrest for this research (3 interviews with Away, 2 with Snake and 1 with Eric).Īway invented this character Voivod even before the band existed.

Therefore, I sifted through all the Voivod interviews I could find online in search of more details about the Voivod concept. It was only after I read the copy of Martn Popoff ’s Worlds Away: Voivod and the Art of Michel Langevin (which Away signed in 2018 while I was doing an interview with Snake, Chewy, and him) that I realized how big of a genius Away and the Voivod guys really are. The story about Away’s Voivod universe is pretty much under the veil of mystery.

The band of the same name is truly one of the most underrated and still one of the most genuine bands that have ever emerged from the thrash metal scene. But there is one character that blew my mind. Some of them have elaborated backgrounds packed in nice little stories. From Motorhead’s Snaggletooth, to Iron Maiden’s Eddie, Megadeth’s Vic Rattlehead, Anthrax’s Not Man, S.O.D.’s Sergeant D., Overkill’s Chally, Sodom’s Knarrenheinz, Sacred Reich’s O.D. Mascots are pretty much a heavy metal thing. This article is dedicated to the loving memory of Denis D’Amour, The Riffmaster Piggy. The 7 chapters of Voivod – A Saga of the Nuclear Vampire

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