Few contemporary progressive metal acts blend influences quite as seamlessly as Swedish-Danish quartet Vola. On Friend Of A Phantom they turn on the switch marked ‘metal’ to activate pummelling kick drums, beef up their riffs to cavern-filling size, and summon the essence of Satan’s own belch.
The follow-up to 2021’s Witness features additional textures – for example, in the shape of guest vocals from Anders Fridén of Scandi metal outfit In Flames, who appears on opening track Cannibal.
