War and Pain

War and Pain
Studio album by
Voivod
ReleasedSeptember 1984[1]
RecordedJune 19–27, 1984
StudioLe Terroir Studio, Laterrière (now part of Saguenay, Québec), Canada
GenreThrash metal[2]
Length42:07
LabelMetal Blade
ProducerVoivod
Voivod chronology
War and Pain
(1984) 		Rrröööaaarrr
(1986)
Professional ratings
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.

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.

  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.