War and Pain

War and Pain
Studio album by Voivod
Released August 10, 1984 (1984-08-10) [1]
Recorded June 19-27, 1984 at Le Terroir Studio, Laterrière (now part of Saguenay, Quebec), Canada
Genre Thrash metal, speed metal
Length 42:07 (original)
1:45:01 (remastered)
Label Metal Blade
Producer Voivod
Voivod chronology
War and Pain
(1984)		 Rrröööaaarrr
(1986)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]

War and Pain is the debut album from Canadian heavy metal band Voivod, which was 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, but the band only got paid $1,000, accordingly to the contract they had signed with Metal Blade.

War and Pain was reissued several times on the CD format (sometimes on different labels in other countries): in 1990 on Enigma or Roadracer Records; remastered by Metal Blade and reissued in 1994; it was also released in Roadracer'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).[2][3][4]

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Voivod except where indicated.

This Side (Iron)

  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

That Side (Blower)

  1. "Blower" – 2:42
  2. "Live for Violence" – 5:11
  3. "Black City" – 5:08
  4. "Nuclear War" – 7:01

Note: The original cassette version also had a track after "Nuclear War" named "Condemned to the Gallows". This was the track they recorded for 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

Disc one

War and Pain (Remastered)

  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

Anachronism (1st show, June 1983)

  1. "Condemned to the Gallows" – 5:07
  2. "Blower" – 3:01
  3. "Voivod" – 3:50

To the Death (Metal Massacre 5 sessions, January 1984)

  1. "Condemned to the Gallows" – 5:09
  2. "Voivod" – 4:41
  3. "Iron Gang" – 4:24

Disc two

Morgoth Invasion (Live demo, December 1984)

  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. "Korgull the Exterminator" – 4:50
  14. "Suck Your Bone" – 4:25
  15. "Witching Hour" (Venom) – 2:51
  16. "Chemical Warfare" (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

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Metal-Archives.com (see the additional notes section)
  3. ^ Main Page for War and Pain on Rate Your Music
  4. ^ Main Page for War and Pain on Discogs


Voivod
Snake  · Blacky  · Away  · Chewy
Piggy  · Jasonic  · E-Force  · Pierre St. Jean
Studio albums
War and Pain (1984)  · Rrröööaaarrr (1986)  · Killing Technology (1987)  · Dimension Hatröss (1988)  · Nothingface (1989)  · Angel Rat (1991)  · The Outer Limits (1993)  · Negatron (1995)  · Phobos (1997)  · Voivod (2003)  · Katorz (2006)  · Infini (2009)
Other releases
The Best of Voivod (1992)  · Kronik (1998)  · Voivod Lives (2000)  · Warriors of Ice (Live in Montreal) (2011)
Videography
D-V-O-D-1 (2005)
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