Interview with Eric Forrest of E-Force: The unreleased Voivod album has Angel Rat vibe!

Interview with Eric Forrest of E-Force, ex-Voivod

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00:00 - Intro
0:38 - Virus
3:20 - New E-Force album
4:56 - Eric joins Voivod
8:04 - Replacing Snake on vocals and Blacky on bass
9:08 - Voivod goes groove metal
10:11 - The lyrical concept of Negatron
11:14 - Negative criticism from Snake's fans?
11:54 - Working with Piggy
12:58 - Touring during Negatron era
14:44 - The lyrical concept of Phobos
16:42 - Touring during the Phobos era
18:12 - Accident in Germany 1998
19:40 - Recovery
20:30 - Being in Coma
22:40 - The concept behind the lost Voivod album
26:07 - How the lost album sounds like
26:48 - Re-release of Negatron and Phobos albums?
28:09 - D-V-O-D- 2?
29:14 - Double Voivod live set with Snake and Eric
30:47 - Negatron & Phobos revisited tour
34:11 - Last time Eric saw the Riffmaster Piggy
38:07 - Being nervous before Dynamo show
39:22 - Biggest Voivod shows, opening for Iron Maiden
41:04 - Eric getting into music, influences
44:22 - Forming E-Force
45:46 - M-Body song
48:22 - Favorite albums
50:13 - Change of sound on Phobos
52:26 - Jim Thirlwell
54:05 - Planet Hell
58:37 - Ticketmaster
In this interview, Eric Forrest discussed the new E-Force album, Piggy, Negatron, Phobos, and the unreleased Voivod album.
We started the interview by talking about the Coronavirus, and the way Eric is dealing with this situation in Toulouse, France. When asked whether he is working on the new E-Force album, Eric stated the following: "Yeah! I have been for the last year and a half! It’s slowly coming. We have like about 8 or 9 songs recorded. We have one song in a bit to finish. Well, it’s a lot of work (laughs). Like, artists and musicians can tell you it’s all great when it’s all finished and packaged and everything, but yeah I am working on a new one called Mind Bender which kinda, ironic enough fits this subject in this current world state at the moment, despite you can link to other situations of life and the mindset of the human race and the feelings of good, bad, ugly, all that stuff so… Yeah, I’m doing that and I hope to have that released, hopefully later this year on Mighty Records out of Copenhagen"… When asked how many songs there’s gonna be on the album, he said: "There’s like maybe 10 or 11… He also announced that the band is going to do „a special cover of the special band which remains to be a secret until it’s released. I don’t think it’s too hard to figure it out." When asked about the unreleased Voivod album that was supposed to be recorded with Steve Albini, Eric shared some details: "I still got a copy on a cassette. I hadn’t listened to that for many many years. One thing that I would like to say is that I did do a cover on one of my E-Force albums (Modified Poison 2008) of a song called „Victory“ which is one of the songs (from the unreleased album). And I did that out of the tribute to Piggy in a sense like hey, I brought one of these songs to life, it’s a victory…a big production… as a tribute to Piggy in a sense. The album was supposed to be recorded and done but at that point, there were a lot of financial problems…"

In the final, 7th chapter of the Voivod saga, Voivod goes into a coma. The final chapter was influenced by the disastrous accident the band had in Germany, with Eric going into a coma. "Yeah, it was kind of based about that and through not just me but for those guys and for everybody in the style…and I’m very grateful that we did what we did…you know, to try to get a shot to do that. Obviously, at the time I was a little pissed off not to be in the band anymore but looking back now and…. It’s a business decision for them to carry out the way. And that’s cool. That’s fine. I understand. I still see these guys here and there. I saw them a few years ago in France. They invited me to Hellfest to join Snake and sing Tribal Convictions. That was pretty cool back in 2011. But yeah, that unfinished thing was about that (the accident) in a sense. When it’s going to be released, if it’s going to be released I have no idea. It’s not my position to say when…."

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