description Voivod - Nothingface Overview
Nothingface is the fifth studio album by Canadian band Voivod, released in 1989. It combines thrash-metal foundations with progressive-rock structures, dissonant guitar chords, shifting rhythms, and the band's science-fiction imagery. The album includes a version of Pink Floyd's "Astronomy Domine," alongside original compositions such as "The Unknown Knows," and is suited to listeners interested in experimental or progressive metal.
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Which Pink Floyd song did Voivod cover on Nothingface?
Voivod recorded "Astronomy Domine," originally written by Syd Barrett for Pink Floyd's 1967 debut. Its psychedelic structure fits Nothingface's combination of science-fiction imagery, dissonance, and progressive rock.
Why does the guitar on Nothingface sound so unusual?
Denis "Piggy" D'Amour built riffs from dissonant chord shapes, tritones, and angular intervals rather than conventional metal power-chord movement. That vocabulary gives songs such as "The Unknown Knows" their mechanical, unstable character.
Is Nothingface a thrash album or a progressive-metal album?
It contains both: the rhythm section and attack come from thrash metal, while the shifting meters and unconventional structures lean toward progressive rock. Released in 1989, it became one of Voivod's clearest bridges between those styles.
What Voivod albums lead into Nothingface?
Killing Technology and Dimension Hatröss chart the band's move from raw thrash toward increasingly conceptual and progressive writing. Nothingface followed Dimension Hatröss and pushed that development into a cleaner, more spacious production.
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