Voïvod – The Wake (2018)

March 18, 2022

Voïvod have a special place in my heart. They’ve slowly grown from the Lost In Space of thrash to idk, the 2001: A Space Odyssey of thrash. Ha! Is it derivative at this point to pull together a bunch of purposefully dissonant riffs and awkward tempo changes and call it sci-fi thrash? The answer is, of course, fuck no. Especially if you’re Voïvod.

For me, I feel the band have been on something of a second wind since Target Earth dropped in the early 2010s and The Wake is proof of this continuing perfection of the space-thrash sound. Sure, there may now be faster or more technical bands playing in this style, but nobody does it quite like Voivod, and their awkward, nerdy metal a la The Wake will always be special to me.