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Voivod Guitarist Dies By Newsferatu, Writer Saturday, August 27, 2005 @ 8:43 AM
Quebec City newspaper Le
Soleil reported
yesterday that D'Amour - who was diagnosed with colon cancer earlier in the
summer - first entered the hospital for a routine operation, but several
complications led his doctors to suspect more problems. Then the grim
verdict was revealed: the cancer, already too advanced, was inoperable.
Only two months ago, D'Amour was in the studio working on the 14th album
from the Canadian thrash-metal pioneers Voivod. More than two dozen tracks
are believed to have been demoed for the CD, for which the group recently
inked a deal with The End Records. However, the band were forced to put
studio work on hold while bassist Jason Newsted (ex-Metallica) was treated for tendonitis.
In a recent interview with Billboard.com, Newsted spoke about the material
slated to appear on the group's next CD. "It's the most complete demos I've
ever been involved in," he said. "[VOIVOD singer] Snake has already chosen
his effects - exact timing of milliseconds for delay. We've had a long time
to develop the demos, so there's about 23 or 25 songs that are absolutely
listenable right now."
Newsted was a huge fan of VOIVOD before he was invited to join and he
remains a great admirer to this day. "They created something a long, long
time ago that may have been emulated many, many times since - but nobody can
do it like the original," he offered.
Prior to his hospitalization, D'Amour laid down guitar tracks for a reunion
CD from the legendary AUT'CHOSE, a '70s band from Montreal. That album is expected to surface next summer.
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