This week on The Metal File:

"VOIVOD just released Live in Japan Tatsumaki on DVD - Michel "Away" Langevin joined me to talk about it and their upcoming Christmas food

drive at Club Soda Saturday night.

Plus I'll have 3 copies of the DVD to give away!"

Listen to the show at this location.

On Saturday, December 12th, Voivod will headline Club Soda in Montréal, QC - the band's first headlining show in Montréal in ten years. This show will be the first time fans in Montréal will be able to hear some songs not performed live by Voivod in Montreal in over 17 years.

The show is also being billed as a release party for their DVD, Tatsumaki: Voivod In Japan 2008, due out on November 17th via MVD/Conveyor/Universal.

Tickets are $15 and two support bands will be announced soon. The show is being presented by GEG/Heavy MTL Festival.

Tatsumaki: Voivod In Japan 2008 is the first show that the band has ever played in Japan. It's a three-camera shoot originally recorded in 2008 for TV broadcast. The band lineup consists of Away, Snake, new guitarist Dan Mongrain, and the original bass player Blacky. The setlist consists of material from the first 10 years of the band, some of which has not been played live in 17 years or more.

BW&BK; Editor-In-Chief and noted rock journalist Martin Popoff states:

"A heart-wrenching story of death and inspiring uprising, Voivod bounced back from the passing of guitarist Denis "Piggy" D'Amour with a duo of triumphant studio albums - Katorz and Infini - which used Denis' last tracks feverishly recorded as he knew he was not long for this world. After a period where grieving drummer Michel "Away" Langevin had declared the band over, surprise... Voivod are back!

In the guitar slot, legendary Quebec axe expert Dan Mongrain, who joins Michel, Snake and returning bassist Blacky for this fiercely creative and provocative show from 2008, not to mention metal-legendary touring into 2009, for a future that is all killing technology of black and purple hues. Call it original cyber-thrash, Crimson-ian dark prog metal, early on, maybe Venom-poisoned blackened thrash, and now, steam punk for virtuosos... whatever tags one tries to write up and affix, there's no arguing that these unearthly Quebec artistes of the extreme have influenced deeply metal, alternative and alternative metal around the world forever, not to mention into the realms of Dimension Hatross. Listen closely and study intently - Tatsumaki Voivod In Japan 2008 reveals loud realms of clanking unreality that can thrill and fill any thinking man's metal head with headbanging wonder."

Tracklisting:

'Voivod'

'The Prow'

'The Unknown Knows'

'Ravenous Medicine'

'Overreaction'

'Tribal Convictions'

'Tornado'

'Panorama'

'Nuclear War'

'Nothingface'

'Brain Scan'

'Astronomy Domine'

Bonus Materials:

- Live in Quebec City (July 2009) performing: 'Panorama', 'Treasure Chase' and 'Tornado'
- Interview with Dave Grohl
- Panorama: Seeking Voivod (unreleased French mini doc film with English subtitles)
- Trip Photos