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“We’re not flower children and we’re not yuppies. We’re somewhere in between – the Van Der Graaf Generation”: They had links to Jethro Tull, Voivod and The Cure. Did you really think Men Without Hats were all new wave and no prog?

The classically-trained Canadians were wearing their influences with pride by fifth album Sideways. And they were making a concept album about UFOs when their label dropped them

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"Prepare yourselves for a night of epic music!" Voivod announce UK tour dates in June 2026

Canadian prog metal legends Voivod will tour the UK with Midnight and Cryptosis in June

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New book puts Canadian prog metal pioneers Voivod in the spotlight

Jeff Wagner's 540-page biography, Always Moving: The Strange Multiverse Of Voïvod is published in November

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“We never thought of ourselves as pioneers. But we grew up in a parallel universe to our peers”: Voivod weren’t trying to invent prog metal – they were just trying to be like Van der Graaf Generator

Drummer Away recalls the Canadian outfit’s rapid transition from thrash over the course of their first four albums

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“I went to Chuck Schuldiner’s house and auditioned. I’m sure I played some of it wrong, but I guess it was close enough!” How Bobby Koelble brought his jazz chops to Death – and made one of the greatest metal albums of all time

He left his mark on 1995 album Symbolic, and while he moved on to jazz, he still keeps metal sensibilities within his playing

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"Ramones perfectly represent and encapsulate the essence of the underground." Napalm Death, Thurston Moore, Wayne Kramer, Ihsahn and members of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Rammstein, Gogol Bordello and more to appear on two forthcoming Ramones tribute albums

Underground heroes pay tribute to Da Bruddahs, NYC's much-missed punk rock pioneers

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Napalm Death have recorded a cover of a Ramones song with a guest appearance from Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore – and we cannot wait to hear it

Napalm Death, Voivod, Ihsahn, Mondo Generator and more will cover The Ramones for a pair of upcoming tribute albums

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“These bikers came bursting into our place. I’m sure we would have been killed”: how violence, rocket attacks and the Cold War helped Voivod make 80s prog-thrash masterpiece Dimension Hatröss

The story of Voivod’s ground-breaking 1988 album Dimension Hatröss, the album that helped shaped modern prog metal

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"Dave was really nervous about talking to these guys": Why Dave Grohl ditched the Foo Fighters to make extreme metal supergroup Probot, featuring members of Venom, Sepultura, Motorhead and more

Tired of playing rock shows with Foo Fighters, Dave Grohl recruited his favourite vocalists for the all-star metal project Probot

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10 classic metal albums with horribly ugly cover art

These masterpieces by Metallica, Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath are much easier on the ears than they are on the eyes

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Prog's Tracks Of The Week: new music from Voivod, Southern Empire and more

Cool new prog music from Suns Of The Tundra, Davey Johnstone, Matteo Mancuso and more...

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Metal on Metal: How Mystic Festival has grown to become one of Europe’s most essential events for metal fans

One off sets played amongst an utterly unique backdrop, a line up to satisfy the taste of any metalhead and the patronage of some legends of the genre, Mystic Festival is a weekend unlike any other on Europe’s festival season calendar

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Voivod will release 40th anniversary album Morgöth Tales in July

Former Voivod bassists Jason Newsed and Eric Forrest both feature on Voivod's Morgöth Tales, out in July

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Ross Jennings announced as second stage headliner at Prognosis London

The UK's very first Prognosis Festival reveals day splits

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