#344: Voivod's Daniel "Chewy" Mongrain

Voivod guitarist Daniel “Chewy” Mongrain is our guest this week. We
discuss the Canadian perspective on the recent protests inspired by
the murder of George Floyd and his country's response to the
pandemic, he looks back on Voivod's most recent studio album, The
Wake, tells us about how Voivod got invited to play the Montreal
International Jazz Festival, why spontaneous composition is
difficult for a metal band, Voivod’s experience doing the
live-streamed Isolation Festival, and an update on the band's next
album. Petar, Brandon, and Sylvia discuss the guy that got Pete
into heavy metal at the age of nine years old, how he knocked out a
guy by sucker punching him, and the antics of Pete as a high school
basketball player who would pull pranks on his coach. Songs: Voivod
- “The End of Dormancy (Metal Section)," Valkyrie - “Feeling So
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