VOIVOD

Release Year: 2022
Artist Origin: CAN
Style: twisted progressive heavy thrash metal

praised all around upon its release, fifteenth full-length by legendary crew captures Voïvod at a rare intersection of instinct and calculation, where their early mechanical chaos resurfaces not as nostalgia but as renewed language, refracted through decades of experimentation and sharpened self-awareness; fractured rhythms and angular riffing echo the urgency of Rrröööaaarrr and Killing Technology, yet the textures breathe with modern spaciousness, each instrument inhabiting a deliberate geometry rather than a collision, while Snake's voice, still cryptic and oddly human, anchors the abstraction with emotional gravity; it is less a return than an evolved loop - an audacious synthesis of youth's volatility and maturity's precision, reaffirming their singular ability to sound futuristic without ever abandoning their past