Saturday, May 23, 2020

VOIVOD: POST VIDEO FOR NEW TRACK "THE END OF DORMANCY"

Canadian progressive thrash metal warriors VOIVOD have posted a video for the title track from the bands anticipated EP release  "THE END OF DORMANCY",  due to be unleashed 7/10/2020 via CENTURY MEDIA RECORDS.











VOIVOD unleashed "THE WAKE", 9/21/2018 via CENTURY MEDIA RECORDS.



FROM VOIVOD:


July 10th we're releasing a 3-track 12" Vinyl & Digital EP entitled "The End of Dormancy" via Century Media Records.
This is our exclusive live version recorded at MTL Jazz Fest in 2019 with the addition of another special "Metal Section".
Click here http://ow.ly/Bcj350zNCKT to check out this music video for "The End of Dormancy" (directed by Syl Disjonk & produced by Igor Simonnet)
-- We've had some hesitations concerning the timing of this video release. This was shot in Nov 2019 & we decided to continue as planned. We've had concerns that some of the imagery may be seen as insensitive during the current circumstances we're facing globally, but this video is in the realm of science-fiction & is special to us.
The EP can be pre-ordered today at http://ow.ly/U3XV50zNCKV
Guitarist Daniel “Chewy” Mongrain checked in with the following comment about “The End Of Dormancy” and its special “Metal/Brass Section” version:
"Francis Perron (RadicArt Studio), who recorded and mixed “The Wake”, brought his gear and recorded it, then remixed the song. It was an amazing experience, a great challenge for me to write each parts and conduct it. I don’t do that often, so it was a lot of work and I’m very happy with the result, it adds that extra empire, military, roman paddle boat war feel like in the old Ben Hur movie, with the acceleration of the music and intense and stressful emotions that fits the song lyrics perfectly. I’m so proud and happy to play in VOIVOD, as we can try this kind of madness projects and everybody in the band gets excited and motivated to do new things. It’s so fulfilling. I hope this feeling transpires into the music and that the signal gets to the receiver’s frequency!”
Metal Section:
Trumpet I: Dominic Léveillé
Trumpet II: Maxime St-Pierre
Tenor Sax: François D'Amours
Tenor Trombone: Renaud Gratton
Bass Trombone: Jean-Sébastien Vachon
Arrangement: Daniel “Chewy” Mongrain
Words and Music by Voïvod (SOCAN)
(Belanger/Langevin/Laroche/Mongrain)
Published by Piggy Was Here/Peer Music
Produced by Voïvod
Recorded and Mixed by Francis Perron
Mastering: Yannick St-Amand
Video Credits:
Producer: Igor Simonnet
Screenwriter: Snake (loosely inspired by the documentary The Creeping Garden)
Director, editor & VFX: Syl Disjonk
Production manager: Philippe Michon
Director of photography: Luc Desjardins
Chief lighting technician: Frank Appache
Special effects artist: ‎Éric Thivierge
Praying mantis suit: Véronique Poirier
Special effects makeup: ‎Éric Thivierge & Marie-Pier Thibault
Makeup: Marie-Pier Thibault
Cast:
Commander-in-chief: Raynald Lapierre
Chief scientist: Igor Simonnet
Black guard: Yoann-Karl Whissell (special guest star)
Scientist woman: Patricia Girouard Nobl
Scientist man: Jean-François Gouger
Brain scan patients: Snake, Away, Chewy, Rocky
Man in black: Philippe Michon
Praying mantis & brain scan technician: Véronique Poirier
Extraterrestrial hybrid seeress woman: Rachael Eyes
Chaosmonger technician 1: Étienne Cantin-Bellemarre
Chaosmonger technician 2: Stéphane Aubé
Futuristic soldier: Éric Thivierge
Philadelphia experimenter: Syl Disjonk
Production-assistant: Marie-Christine Blanchard
Craft: Mélanie Prévost
Shot in Montreal, Quebec, Canada at DBcom Media & Jerome Bertrand Studio
Additional slime mould footage from The Creeping Garden www.creepinggarden.com
Acknowledgements:
Jerome Bertrand
Victor Lordachescu
Katherine Lauzon
Patrick Goyette
Leif Jensen
Francis Perron
Éric Bilodeau
Special thanks:
Patrick Hugue from Anomalist Books for permission to use the book:
Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious by Eric Wargo
Lawrence Wong from Penguin Random House for the permissions to use the books:
Strange Frequencies by Peter Berbergal
Missing Time by Budd Hopkins
Jasper Sharp & Tim Grabham (The Creeping Garden movie and book)
Nicolas Boucher










VIDEO BELOW:  VOIVOD: NEW TRACK "THE END OF DORMANCY"  (VIA YOU TUBE, COURTESY OF CENTURY MEDIA RECORDS):


















Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-