fuck!!!! ... not again.

[lurch70]

This really hits hard, as the guy does not deserve this ... nobody does ... but this really sucks! I lost a lot of people to cancer and its a bitch ...
Not fucking Piggy !!!!

VOIVOD Guitarist Is Suffering From Advanced Colon Cancer - Aug. 26, 2005 Quebec City newspaper Le Soleil is reporting that VOIVOD guitarist Denis "Piggy" D'Amour is suffering from advanced colon cancer — so advanced that the disease has spread to his liver — and is currently resting in the palliative care ward at a Montreal hospital, surrounded by family and friends.

D'Amour, who was reportedly diagnosed with colon cancer earlier in the summer, first entered the hospital for a routine operation, but several complications led his doctors to suspect more problems. Then the grim verdict was revealed: the cancer, already too advanced, would be inoperable.

Only two months ago, D'Amour was in the studio working on two albums — the 14th album from the Canadian thrash-metal pioneers VOIVOD, plus a reunion CD from the legendary AUT'CHOSE, a '70s band from Montreal.

"Our good friend and guitar hero Denis D'Amour is very ill," his bandmates Denis "Snake" Bélanger, Michel "Away" Langevin, and Jason "Jasonic" Newsted write on their web site. "We are helping Denis in every way that we can to feel comfortable while he fights to get healthy."

D'Amour's current condition casts doubt on the status of the projects he was working on before his hospitalization. AUT'CHOSE are still scheduled to appear at L'Imperial in Quebec City this Saturday (August 27). Martin Dupuis will once again replace the man he considers an idol. The group's new album, for which D'Amour had already completed his tracks, is slated for a summer 2006 release.

For VOIVOD, however, things are less certain. Work on a new album had begun, but according to a Le Soleil source, the CD had not reached an advanced stage of completion. The band was forced to put studio work on hold while bassist Jason Newsted was treated for tendonitis.

 

[NAD]

cancer is bullshit.

 

[lurch70]

i know a lot of you have never heard old school Voivod ... here is a track off of Dimension Hatross (Brain Scan) that I think has everything that makes them great ... the thrash riff, the total off the wall riff, those spaced out vocals ... and the fact that noody has, or ever will sound like them.

www.digadeal.com/temp/voivod_brain_scan.mp3

 

[Demonspell]

Damn, and just as Voivod was starting to get a long overdue audience expansion...my thoughts are with Denis' friends and family.

 

[Captain Beard]

Palliative care BAD.

 

[lurch70]

Palliative care BAD.

hmm ... was not sure what that means, but now that I found it on the web ... pff ... bad news indeed.

 

[J.]

Regardless of my negative opinion of Voivod's music, I hate to see anyone suffer from cancer. My mom just beat regenerative cancer (Thank God for MD Andersen) which was on her lung and in her spine.

Good luck to this guy.

 

[Will Bozarth]

wow, she beat regenerative? congratulations

 

[J.]

wow, she beat regenerative? congratulations

For now. They've already assured her it will come back in some form or another.

 

[Captain Beard]

hmm ... was not sure what that means, but now that I found it on the web ... pff ... bad news indeed.

Hospice. 6 months or less as confirmed by a doctor.

 

[Hell Mike]

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=40945

VOIVOD guitarist Denis "Piggy" D'Amour passed away Friday night (August 26) at approximately 11:45 p.m. due to complications from advanced colon cancer — so advanced that the disease had spread to his liver. D'Amour slipped into a coma Thursday night and died less than 24 hours later in the palliative care unit of a Montreal hospital, surrounded by family and friends. He was 45 years old.

=(

 

[Tide In Mind Out]

 

[cthulufhtagn]

how horrible, he was only 45. condolences to piggy's friends and family, may he rest in peace.

 

[Papa Josh]

Now, will everyone fucking stand up, get motivated and start petitioning our elected officials to fight for stem cell research??????

We elect these fuckwads, they are accountable.

Stem cell research vs. cancer... do the fucking math.

 

[Erik]

Poo. Two metal related deaths this week then, first Doc the Vader Drummer and now Piggy the Voivod Guitarist.

 

[Papa Josh]

Poo. Two metal related deaths this week then, first Doc the Vader Drummer and now Piggy the Voivod Guitarist.

WTF????? I did not hear about Doc, what happened?????

 

[Hell Mike]

http://www.roadrun.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=40667 <-- Doc

 

[Erik]

Not sure about the actual cause of death, but:

http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=206109

 

[Papa Josh]

I think he was battling drugs reall bad for a long time.....

 

[lurch70]

damn ... amazing how cancer just takes you out. RIP Denis!
this really hits home hard as my father passed at the same age as Piggy from untreatable cancer as well.
this really means the end of Voivod as well ... there is no way they can replace his unique guitar sound