OZZY OSBOURNE has drawn upon the sinister power of Ozzfest to create the biggest, meanest, loudest f**king rock festival you can imagine — The Monsters Of Rock. This one-day celebration of the heaviest music in the universe is landing exclusively in the Great White North at Calgary’s McMahon Stadium on Saturday July 26!
The festival billing is as follows:
OZZY OSBOURNE
JUDAS PRIEST
SERJ TANKIAN
CAVALERA CONSPIRACY
SHADOWS FALL VOIVOD
TESTAMENT
3 INCHES OF BLOOD
PRIESTESS
ZIMMERS HOLE
The Monsters Of Rock will provide metal fans a unique opportunity to see the greatest champions of hard rock together on a single stage. No other music event this year will come close the matching the power and intensity of this legendary gathering. Don’t miss your opportunity to take part in hard rock history!
Tickets go on sale Friday April 18 at 12 noon at all Ticketmaster outlets, charge-by-phone, and online at Ticketmaster.ca and UnionEvents.com for $119.50 - 49.50. VIP packages, which will include express admission, laminate, floor access and a private hospitality area, will also be available for a limited time (must be 18 and older to purchase).
Canada’s pioneering metal band VOIVOD has been confirmed as the headliner of the 2009 edition of the Jalometalli festival, set to take place in in Oulu, Finland. More information ? including the rest of the lineup and the dates for the event ? will be announced soon.
VOIVOD supported British heavy metal legends JUDAS PRIEST on August 12, 2008 at Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Fan-filmed video footage of the VOIVOD performance can be viewed below (clips uploaded by YouTube user “rollins75”).
The group’s setlist was as follows:
Voivod
The Prow
Tornado
Ravenous Medicine
The Unknown Knows
Brainscan
Tribal Conviction
Astonomy Domine
Check out photos of the VOIVOD performance at Capitale du Metal.
VOIVOD made its trimphant return to the stage on June 22 in front of 22,500 fans as part of the Heavy MTL festival at Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The group was joined by original bass player Jean-Yves Theriault (“Blacky”) for the first time in 17 years. Dan Mongrain from the Quebec band MARTYR, a good friend of the band, played guitar. Songs from the early catalogue were the focus for the Heavy MTL set, including VOIVOD’s cover of the PINK FLOYD classic “Astronomy Domine”, which closed the show before the band took a bow center stage and shared a group hug.
VOIVOD is currently working on its final album using songs left behind by D’Amour, who died in August 2005 from colon cancer.
Jason Newsted is still very much part of the VOIVOD family and is working with the band on the new record along with Jean-Yves Theriault and Eric Forrest. However, Newsted is unable to perform live at this point.
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