Metal, Hardcore, Indie, Rock
After three years, Voivod came back to the musical scene with their seventh live album “Symphonique“. A live album in collaboration with Quebec Symphonic Orchestra. It’s not the first time thrash metal and classical music join together as at a refined party. We have some examples as Metallica with their “S&M” featuring the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra or “Into the Pandemonium” by Celtic Frost. The final result is a sci-fi cinematic album where the sounds of violins, cellos and even trumpets, along with the aggressive songs of the band, take the listener into a chaotic and distopic world.
There’s no doubt the Canadian band wanted to give a cinematic experience to the fans with this collaboration. The ones who will listen to this work could possibly become the director of their own film. Automacally it could be generated images and frames of a phantasmatic visual production. The atmosphere is certainly dark and oppressive. You can surely feel the anxiety of an abstract main character in argue with this violent world. You are always in hurry. Threre’s no time no think, no time to breathe. The more you try to get out from this chaos, the more the surrounded music evolves. And for a moment you can feel stuck but in the end you can find and reach the quietness.
Futhermore, Voivod has chosen to picked up tracks from their previous albums as “War and Pain”, “Killing Technology”, “Dimension Hatröss”, and”Nothingface”, who contains the Pink Floyd cover “Astronomy Domine”. In conclusion this live album reflects the experimental nature of the band. Their sound always combines progressive and technical elements, and now they even have classical music. The artwork is defintely in their style who the character it’s always the same from the beginning of the band.
