Denis "Snake" Bélanger is the vocalist of the Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 heavy metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 band Voivod

Voivod (band)

Voivod are a Canadian heavy metal band from Jonquière, Quebec, Canada. Their musical style has changed several times since the band's origin in the early 1980s...

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He helped co-found the group in 1982, and appeared on nine albums - War & Pain

War & Pain

War and Pain is the debut album from Canadian thrash metal/progressive metal band Voivod, which was released on August 10, 1984 through Metal Blade Records...

, Rrröööaaarrr

Rrröööaaarrr

Rrröööaaarrr is the second album by Canadian thrash metal/progressive metal band Voivod. It was released in 1986 on Noise Records.-Track listing:*All lyrics by Snake/all music by Piggy, Blacky & Away# "Korgüll the Exterminator" - 4:57...

, Killing Technology

Killing Technology

Killing Technology is the third album from Canadian Thrash metal/Progressive metal band Voivod. It was released in 1987 on Noise Records and was the first to add the progressive sound in their thrash metal reportire...

, Dimension Hatröss

Dimension Hatröss

Dimension Hatröss is the fourth album from the Canadian thrash metal/progressive metal band Voivod. It was released on June 29, 1988 on Noise Records. The Batman theme's cover only appears on the CD version, it is not present on the original vinyl and cassette pressings.-Track listing:All Songs...

, Nothingface

Nothingface (album)

Nothingface is the fifth album by Canadian thrash metal/progressive metal band Voivod. It was released by Mechanic/MCA Records on October 13, 1989. The album marked a change for the band, expanding their sound and exploring more progressive sounds...

, Angel Rat

Angel Rat

Angel Rat is the sixth album released by the Canadian thrash metal/progressive metal band Voivod. Produced by Terry Brown of Rush fame, it was released in 1991 by Mechanic/MCA Records and is the follow-up to their critically acclaimed release, 1989's Nothingface...

and The Outer Limits

The Outer Limits (album)

The Outer Limits is the seventh album released by Canadian heavy metal band Voivod, issued via Mechanic/MCA Records in 1993. This was the final album to feature vocalist Denis Bélanger until his 2002 return....

. He departed the group in 1994, but he later returned to the band in 2002 and appears on their three reunion albums, Voivod

Voivod (album)

Voivod is the thirteenth album, and tenth studio album, by Canadian thrash metal/progressive metal band Voivod and the first to feature, since 1993's Outer Limits, returning vocalist Denis Bélanger and bassist Jason Newsted , formerly of Metallica...

(2003), Katorz

Katorz

Katorz is the fourteenth album, and the eleventh studio album by the Canadian heavy metal band Voivod, and was released on July 25, 2006. The name of the album is phonetic for "quatorze", the French word for fourteen....

(2006) and Infini

Infini (album)

Infini is the fifteenth album, and the twelfth studio album by the Canadian heavy metal band Voivod, which was released on June 23, 2009. It is their last album to include contributions by their late original guitarist Piggy.-Track listing:...

(2009).

He formed his own band Union Made during his time away from Voivod, and worked on the song "Dictatosaurus" with Dave Grohl

Dave Grohl

David Eric "Dave" Grohl is an American rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, and singer-songwriter who is the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter for Foo Fighters; the former drummer for Nirvana and Scream; and the current drummer for Them Crooked Vultures...

's side project dubbed Probot

Probot

Probot was a heavy metal side project of ex-Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighters rhythm guitarist and lead-singer Dave Grohl. An album was recorded out of the material and released in February 2004...

. And now he's working on a new project, Paranoland.