{"id":344,"date":"2010-02-16T19:43:28","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T02:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=344"},"modified":"2010-02-16T19:45:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T02:45:23","slug":"song-of-the-day-psychic-vacuum-by-voivod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=344","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day – “Psychic Vacuum” by Voivod"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please excuse the low quality of this video’s sound.\u00a0 The song<\/a> is really excellent, trust me.\u00a0 The low bitrate here doesn’t do it any favours.\u00a0 If you have the album “Dimension Hatr\u00c1\u00b6ss”, pop that in your stereo\/player\/whatever now.<\/p>\n

I SAID NOW!!!<\/p>\n

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\nI don’t know who that old dude is.\u00a0 I just Googled “Insistence” for a pic.\u00a0 Aren’t I clever!<\/p>\n

Special Coyote is SPECIAL!!!<\/p>\n

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\nSo this 1988 album is a concept album.\u00a0 I won’t go into details, because Voivod’s first 5 albums are all concept albums and they all tell a story.\u00a0 They all tell one single story, that is.\u00a0 This album is the 4th installment.\u00a0 After album #5, they ran out of ideas for this story and wrote lyrics about other stuff.<\/p>\n

Does it sound to you like the singer is singing in French?\u00a0 That’s just his thick (sorry, tick) French accent.\u00a0 These guys are from Quebec.\u00a0 And check out the amazing artwork on their early album covers.\u00a0 The drummer drew those himself.\u00a0 Talented man, he.\u00a0 Also schizophrenic.\u00a0 It seems he fell on his head when he was a kid… he hit the pavement and cracked his skull open.\u00a0 Schizophrenic since then.<\/p>\n

But the good type of Schizophrenic, I guess.\u00a0 The kind that makes you one of the best heavy metal drummers in the world and makes you draw fucking awesome album covers.<\/p>\n

He came up with most of the story ideas for their lyrics too.\u00a0 In this song, the protagonist… I don’t think I’d call him a hero… is having his thoughts drained out of his brain by the Psychic Vacuum.\u00a0 And this marks the only occurrence of me ever hearing someone pronounce “Vacuum” with three syllables.<\/p>\n

I swear this singer is actually singing French on their first album, the accent is so thick.\u00a0 I think that’s fucking cool for an 80s thrash (sorry, trash) metal band to be from Quebec.\u00a0 And sing in English so that people outside of Quebec will listen to them.<\/p>\n

Maybe don’t check out the video, just the audio.\u00a0 Videos are lame.\u00a0 This one is kind of stupid.\u00a0 The song, when played REALLY FUCKING LOUD on a quality stereo, actually sounds scary.\u00a0 There aren’t many bands that can make their music scary.\u00a0 Plenty of them try, but the way these guys put the chords, tones, rhythms and structures of this song together is an example of when it really works.<\/p>\n

Unless you’re listening to the crappy quality of this YouTube link.\u00a0 Sorry about that.<\/p>\n

I don’t have a whole lot more to say, other than if you like Thrash Metal, then go out and get Voivod’s first 5 albums.\u00a0 If you like the band despite themselves, get the two that followed.\u00a0 If you like REALLY heavy N\u00c1\u00bc-Metal, then pick up the two that followed those.\u00a0 And if you like to hear what a bunch of old heavy metal rockers sound like when they’re proving they still have the old spark, get their last two.<\/p>\n

But the first 5, definitely.<\/p>\n

BITE KILL RUSH SKULK AND THERE’S NO CHANCE TO SAVE YOUR CRACK-ED BRAAAAIIIN!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Please excuse the low quality of this video’s sound.\u00a0 The song is really excellent, trust me.\u00a0 The low bitrate here doesn’t do it any favours.\u00a0 If you have the album “Dimension Hatr\u00c1\u00b6ss”, pop that in your stereo\/player\/whatever now. I SAID NOW!!! I don’t know who that old dude is.\u00a0 I just Googled “Insistence” for a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[191,190],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-of-the-day","tag-thrash-metal","tag-voivod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}