Metalhead performs Necrophagist on The Voice Quebec and gets through!

Metal is no stranger to TV competitions. Remember the 82-year-old man who sang Bodies on America’s Got Talent? Or the man who screamed his way through Suicide Silence’s Unanswered on Romania’s Got Talent? Well now it’s time for Canada to get in on the act.

Devout metalhead Louis-Paul Gauvreau comes out an absolutely nails Necrophagist’s Stabwound on The Voice Quebec/La Voix as his (we assume) girlfriend looks on laughing. The judges probably have never heard such a barbaric noise on their tender mainsteam ears, but Isabelle Boulay is loving it. In fact, she loves it so much that she only goes and slams her hand down on the SUPER-TURBO-SWIVEL-CHAIR-BUTTON, granting Gauvreau a chance to perform again in the next round. We’re guessing that’s how it works, anyway.

Also, we should give a special shout-out to The Voice’s in-house band who actually had to learn Necrophagist, rather than just pipe it in over the PA. We’re hoping for some Anaal Nathrakh next time.

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Luke Morton joined Metal Hammer as Online Editor in 2014, having previously worked as News Editor at popular (but now sadly defunct) alternative lifestyle magazine, Front. As well as helming the Metal Hammer website for the four years that followed, Luke also helped relaunch the Metal Hammer podcast in early 2018, producing, scripting and presenting the relaunched show during its early days. He also wrote regular features for the magazine, including a 2018 cover feature for his very favourite band in the world, Slipknot, discussing their turbulent 2008 album, All Hope Is Gone.