Voivod At Place Bell

As we get closer to the end of the year, I headed out to the Place Bell in Laval on Saturday night to make sure that my final concert of the year would end things very loudly.  With time being a little short as we enter the holiday season, we're going to do things a little backwards with this update. There were four bands on the bill Saturday night, which means that I would usually get the headliner done and then try and get the other bands done when time permits.  However, in this case my pass to shoot the show was given to me by one of the other bands, so they get priority.  Another reason for priority to be given would be because that band was Montreal's own heavy metal legends, Voivod.  This show brought a close to a year long 40th Anniversary celebration for the band and the local faithful were on hands to make sure that their heroes were celebrated with a party that matches their awesome musical catalogue.  A new album, Morgoth Tales, was also released this year and features re-recorded versions of what they describe as more obscure tracks from their celebrated musical catalogue.  It's been four long years since I last got to Voivod, and though the light was kind of low for the duration of their set, it was still an honour to be able to share a moment with this local legends and a band that I have been listening to for about 30 of those 40 years.  The first photograph was taken at f/3.2, 1/250sec, ISO 12800 at 35mm and the second photograph was taken at f/3.2, 1/200sec, ISO 12800 at 42mm.  Here are a few  more photographs that I took of their performance.

f/3.2, 1/125sec, ISO 25600 at 44mm

f/3.2, 1/160sec, ISO 25600 at 24mm

f/3.2, 1/160sec, ISO 25600 at 24mm

f/3.2, 1/160sec, ISO 25600 at 35mm

f/3.2, 1/500sec, ISO 25600 at 70mm

f/3.2, 1/80sec, ISO 25600 at 55mm

f/3.2, 1/320sec, ISO 12800 at 70mm

f/3.2, 1/100sec, ISO 25600 at 45mm

f/3.2, 1/320sec, ISO 12800 at 35mm

f/3.2, 1/160sec, ISO 25600 at 24mm

f/3.2, 1/3200sec, ISO 20000 at 35mm

f/3.2, 1/100sec, ISO 25600 at 53mm

f/3.2, 1/100sec, ISO 25600 at 26mm

f/3.2, 1/500sec, ISO 12800 at 70mm

f/3.2, 1/100sec, ISO 25600 at 45mm

f/3.2, 1/10sec, ISO 16000 at 50mm

f/3.2, 1/250sec, ISO 12800 at 44mm

f/3.2, 1/250sec, ISO 12800 at 70mm

f/3.2, 1/80sec, ISO 12800 at 70mm

f/3.2, 1/100sec, ISO 25600 at 45mm

f/3.2, 1/1000sec, ISO 12800 at 30mm

 

If you'd like to find out more about Voivod and their music, you can do so by following the link to their website.  If you would like to see the photographs of Whitechapel, In Flames and Meshuggah, who also performed that night, you can do so by following the link.  Much thanks goes out to James MacLean of Talk's Cheap Management and Marianne Drolet-Paré of Sony Music Canada for the pass to shoot the show.  As always, it is very much apppreciated.  Growing up, you find all kinds of musical bands that you enjoy and they all seem to come from far off places.  Voivod was the exception.  The proof that people from here could go on to be something big.  They'll be going back on tour in the new year, so be sure to catch the show.  Congratulations of 40 awesome years, here's to 40 more.