News: Voivod Celebrate 40 Years With Anniversary Album 'Morgöth Tales'

Voivod Celebrate 40 Years With Anniversary Album ‘Morgöth Tales’

‘Morgöth Tales’ Due 21st July Via Century Media Records

UK Tour Commencing Next Week

Canadian sci-fi metal innovators VOIVOD are celebrating 40 eventful years of existence in 2023 and are pleased to announce a special anniversary studio album entitled Morgöth Tales, to be released on 21st July via Century Media Records.

Once more recorded and mixed by Francis Perron at RadicArt Studio, mastered by Maor Appelbaum and produced by VOIVOD, Morgöth Tales includes fresh studio (re-)recordings by the band’s current line-up of nine especially selected, not-so-obvious picks from the band’s hyper-classy and extremely diverse back catalogue (between 1984 and 2003) as well as a brand-new song and the album’s title- rack, ‘Morgöth Tales’.

On the album announcement, VOIVOD drummer Michel “Away” Langevin comments:
“Morgöth Tales covers 40 years of space exploration. It was really exciting for us to revisit a more obscure part of the Voïvod catalogue, from thrash-punk to prog-metal. The title track is a new song, which we started writing on the tour bus and hotels during the Opeth European tour in November/December 2022. It has the vibe of the experimental music we are doing nowadays, with a new twist I think. We also had the great thrill of getting Eric [Forrest] and Jason [Newsted] involved on this album. I hope you’ll dig it, Chewy, Rocky, Snake and I certainly had a blast recording it. All aboard and ready for take off!“

Pre-orders will become available 19th May.

The Ltd. CD Jewelcase in O-Card and Digital Album formats will also come with a cover version of the Public Image Ltd. track ‘Home’ as bonus. The LP format will come on 180g vinyl and with a 4page LP-Booklet in the following variants:
– Black LP – Unlimited
– White LP – Ltd. 800x copies (www.cmdistro.de)
– Transparent Green LP – Ltd. 300x copies (www.cmdistro.de)
– Red LP – Ltd. 300x copies (VOIVOD outlets)

Next up, VOIVOD are kicking off their 40th Anniversary touring cycle this upcoming weekend in The Netherlands and the UK, full tour dates below:

18.04 – The Fleece, Bristol
19.04 – Slay, Glasgow
20.04 – Rebellion, Manchester
21.04 – 1865, Southampton
22.04 – Indigo @ The O2, London

VOIVOD – ‘Morgöth’ Tales’
Album Artwork – Michel “Away” Langevin

Track Listing:
1. Condemned To The Gallows (2023 Version) [Originally on Metal Massacre V Compilation, 1984]
2. Thrashing Rage (2023 Version) [Originally on “Rrröööaaarrr”, 1986]
3. Killing Technology (2023 Version) [Originally on “Killing Technology”, 1987]
4. Macrosolutions To Megaproblems (2023 Version) [Originally on “Dimension Hatröss”, 1988]
5. Pre-Ignition (2023 Version) [Originally on “Nothingface”, 1989]
6. Nuage Fractal (2023 Version) [Originally on “Angel Rat”, 1991]
7. Fix My Heart (2023 Version) [Originally on “The Outer Limits”, 1993]
8. Rise (2023 Version, feat. Eric Forrest) [Originally on “Phobos”, 1997]
9. Rebel Robot (2023 Version, feat. Jason Newsted) [Originally on “Voivod”, 2003]
10. Morgöth Tales [New Song]

Morgöth Tales succeeds VOIVOD’s 15th much-acclaimed and Juno Awards winning studio album Synchro Anarchy, which entered sales charts upon release in early 2022 as follows: Germany #7, Switzerland #64, Austria #67, The Netherlands #88, Belgium #129, UK (Rock & Metal) #7, Canada (Hard Music) #2, USA Current Hard Music #8, USA Top New Artist #11, USA Heatseekers #56 and USA Current Album #67. VOIVOD also released the special Ultraman – EP in late 2022, which contains a highly original tribute to the “Ultraman” TV series theme.

You can still order Synchro Anarchy here: https://voivodband.lnk.to/SynchroAnarchy.
The Ultraman – EP is also still available here: https://voivodband.lnk.to/Ultraman-EP.