Jean-Yves Theriault
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Jean-Yves Thériault |
| Also known as | Blacky |
| Born |
December 15, 1962 Jonquière, Quebec |
| Genres | Heavy metal, progressive metal, thrash metal, speed metal |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter, Producer |
| Instruments | Bass |
| Years active | 1982–present |
| Labels | Coeur Atomique, Century Media, Metal Blade, Noise, MCA, X-voto Records |
| Associated acts | Coeur Atomique, Voivod, The Holy Body Tattoo Dance Society |
Jean-Yves Thériault (Blacky) is the former bassist for Canadian thrash/progressive metal band Voivod. He co-founded the band and appeared on the first six albums – War and Pain, Rrröööaaarrr, Killing Technology, Dimension Hatross, Nothingface, and Angel Rat. He departed the group in 1991 for personal reasons, and went on to co-found The Holy Body Tattoo Dance Society from 1992 to 1999. He composed, produced and engineered the scores for "White Riot", "L'Orage", "Poetry & Apocalypse", and "Our Brief Eternity".
In 1997 he released The Electronic Voice Phenomena CD with Mark Spybey and established the X-voto Recording label.
Thériault made a guest appearance in Brain Scan, a Voivod cover on the latest Martyr album Feeding the Abscess and performed it live at the release concert at the Montreal Medley in 2006. Thériault co-produced the Negativa self-titled three-song EP with Pierre Rémillard at Wild Studio in St-Zenon, Quebec.
Thériault returned to Voivod in 2008, after releasing a statement on August 26, 2008 regarding his involvement with the band.
Thériault continues to create electroacoustic music. His collaboration Hiatus, created with Australian artist Matt Warren, was presented in conjunction with the photographic work of artists Lena Stuart and Sally Rees at the Richmond, Virginia, InLight Festival on September 5, 2008 .
Thériault composed, produced, recorded and edited the Voivod's 2013 album Target Earth. On July 10, 2014, it was announced that he was forced out of the band, for months he requested meetings regarding the band business and artistic affairs, but was denied such talks by the other members.
Thériault is currently working with Monica Emond on a new artistic project called (Coeur Atomique). He finally feels that now the music that he is writing mean something more than just writing Metal riff with little reward, specially financially, now it is 100% DIY, 100% engage. The duo have since released two songs and video entitled, "Castle Bravo" "The Waste". The first "Castle Bravo" was dedicated to the Marshallese people that still suffer to this day from all the nuclear tests that were impose on them after the second world war. "The Waste" is about the absurdity of the civilian nuclear program(s). Coeur Atomique new album is release on July 10, 2017. It content 6 songs and only release on vinyl 180g. Download version can be purchase at their website. Coeur Atomique is auto-produced, which mean all the monies raise goes directly to the member, there is no record label nor management involved.
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