VOIVOD – The Wake album pre-order started

First single and video “Obsolete Beings” launched

Limited 7” EP for “Always Moving” announced & pre-order started!

Canadian progressive sci-fi metal innovators VOIVOD have recently announced a release date of September 21st, 2018 for their upcoming new studio album The Wake via Century Media Records worldwide.

Today, the band is excited to launch its first single and video (directed and edited by Eric Massicotte & Pierre Duplessis) for the album’s opening track “Obsolete Beings.

The album’s track list is as follows:

VOIVOD – The Wake:
1. Obsolete Beings
2. The End Of Dormancy
3. Orb Confusion
4. Iconspiracy
5. Spherical Perspective
6. Event Horizon
7. Always Moving
8. Sonic Mycelium

The US CD release of The Wake will also be available as a 2CD digipak edition with a bonus disc of 11 tracks featuring the 5 songs off 2016’s Post Society EP as well 6 live tracks from 2018’s 70000 Tons Of Metal cruise. This is the track list for the bonus disc:

VOIVOD – “Bonus Disc”
Post Society EP:
1. Post Society
2. Forever Mountain
3. Fall
4. We Are Connected
5. Silver Machine
Live at 70000 Tons Of Metal Cruise 2018:
6. Inner Combustion (Live 2018)
7. Order Of The Blackguards (Live 2018)
8. Psychic Vacuum (Live 2018)
9. Lost Machine (Live 2018)
10. Fall (Live 2018)
11. Voivod (Live 2018)

The 2LP release of “The Wake” will come on 180gr. vinyl with an etching design on Side D, packaged in a gatefold sleeve and with a double-sided poster. Next to standard black vinyl, the album will also be available in the following limited coloured editions:

Black 2LP: Unlimited
Pink 2LP: 100x copies / CM Webshop Europe
White 2LP: 200x copies / CM Webshop Europe
Red 2LP: 300x copies / CM Distro Europe
Silver 2LP: 200x copies / Nuclear Blast
Golden 2LP: 200x copies / Season Of Mist
Transp. sun yellow 2LP: 100x copies / CM Webshop USA

Last but not least, VOIVOD are also making a collectible 7” EP available on August 31st, for the beginning of their European touring activities and before the album’s street date. The 7” EP for the album track “Always Moving” will feature “Order Of The Blackguards (Live 2018)” as B-Side and is limited to a total of 1000 copies, available in the following editions:

Black 7Inch: 500x copies / CM Distro Europe
Lilac 7Inch: 100x copies / CM Webshop Europe
Clear 7Inch: 200x copies / CM Distro Europe
Transp. red 7Inch: 200x / Band edition on tour

The pre-sale for The Wake in its various physical and digital formats and also of the “Always Moving” 7” EP is starting as of today.
Check here for more details: https://VOIVODBand.lnk.to/TheWake
Or go via CM Distro here: http://www.cmdistro.de/Artist/Voivod/198?Page=1&PageSize=25&Sort=13

VOIVOD’s The Wake is the highly anticipated successor to 2013’s Target Earthalbum and 2016 mini-album Post Society. The album was recorded and mixed by Francis Perron at RadicArt Recording Studio in Canada and its artwork (as well as the art for the attached singles, seen above) was once again created by VOIVOD drummer Michel “Away” Langevin.

VOIVOD – Live North America 2018:
29.07.2018 Montreal (Canada) – Heavy Montreal Festival
https://www.heavymontreal.com/en/artists
04.08.2018 Lévis (Canada) – Festivent
https://festivent.ca/artistes/
18.08.2018 Las Vegas (USA) – Psycho Las Vegas Festival
https://www.vivapsycho.com

More on VOIVOD and The Wake to follow soon…
VOIVOD line-up:
Snake – Vocals
Chewy – Guitar
Rocky – Bass
Away – Drums

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