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Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal7/10[4]
Exclaim!(favourable)[5]
PopMatters(favourable)[6]
Rock Hard7.5/10[7]
Sputnikmusic3.5/5[8]

War and Pain is the debut studio album by Canadian heavy metal band Voivod, released in September 1984. According to a 1986 TV interview with the band, it sold over 40,000 copies within 2 years of its release.

War and Pain was reissued several times on the CD format (sometimes on different labels in other countries): the first CD issue on Metal Blade in 1987, in 1990 on Enigma Records; remastered by Metal Blade and reissued in 1994; it was also released in Roadrunner'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).

A music video was made for the title song "Voivod" and was directed by Dédé Fortin.

Track listing

All lyrics by Denis "Snake" Bélanger and all music by Denis "Piggy" D'Amour, Jean-Yves "Blacky" Thériault and Michel "Away" Langevin, except where indicated.

This Side (Iron)
No.TitleLength
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)
No.TitleLength
6."Blower"2:42
7."Live for Violence"5:11
8."Black City"5:08
9."Nuclear War"7:01
Original cassette version bonus track
No.TitleLength
10."Condemned to the Gallows"5:07

"Condemned to the Gallows" was originally recorded for the compilation album Metal Massacre V. Aside from one "War and Pain" cassette pressing, "Condemned to the Gallows" would not appear again on any Voivod release until re-recorded in 2023 for Morgöth Tales.

20th Anniversary Edition

Disc one: War and Pain (Remastered)
No.TitleLength
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)
No.TitleLength
10."Condemned to the Gallows"5:07
11."Blower"3:01
12."Voivod"3:50
To the Death (Metal Massacre 5 sessions, January 1984)
No.TitleLength
13."Condemned to the Gallows"5:09
14."Voivod"4:41
15."Iron Gang"4:24

Disc two: Morgoth Invasion (Live demo, December 1984)

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
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."Korgüll the Exterminator" 4:50
14."Suck Your Bone" 4:25
15."Witching Hour" (Venom cover) 2:51
16."Chemical Warfare" (Slayer cover)Jeff Hanneman, Kerry King6:17

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

Voivod
Production
  • Guy Pedneault – engineer
  • Brian Slagel – executive producer

References

  1. ^ "Gatefold of Best of Metal Blade, Vol. 1". Metal Blade Records. Retrieved 2013-05-19.
  2. ^ "Voivod - War And Pain". MetalReviews.com.
  3. ^ Prato, Greg. "Voivod - War and Pain review". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 2017-07-13.
  4. ^ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. pp. 400–401. ISBN 978-1894959315.
  5. ^ Orchard, Rod (1 September 2004). "Voivod - War and pain". Exclaim!. Retrieved 2017-07-21.
  6. ^ Begrand, Adrien (9 November 2004). "Voivod - War and Pain". PopMatters. Retrieved 2017-07-13.
  7. ^ Kühnemund, Götz (1984). "Review Album: Voivod - War and Pain". Rock Hard (in German). No. 8. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
  8. ^ "Voivod - War and Pain". Sputnikmusic. 31 January 2011. Retrieved 2017-07-13.
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