Voïvod have been building toward something like this for 40 years. ‘Symphonique,’ a live album recorded with the Quebec Symphony Orchestra at the Grand Théâtre in Québec City on June 4, 2025, arrives June 5th via Century Media Records, and the second single “The End Of Dormancy (Symphonique)” is out now alongside an official visualizer by Cloud Motion Design.
The album spans 73 minutes across 12 songs, presenting a best-of Voïvod setlist reimagined with full orchestral accompaniment. The result is exactly what the band’s progressive, sci-fi metal architecture has always suggested was possible: a dystopian cinematic soundscape that expands the original material into something larger and fully realized.
Drummer Michel “Away” Langevin calls it a longtime dream made real. “It’s the closest we’ve ever come to sounding like a dystopian sci-fi movie soundtrack, another dream of ours,” he says, adding that the band will perform the show again in 2027 with the Orchestre Symphonique du Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean in the region where Voïvod formed in 1983.
Guitarist Daniel “Chewy” Mongrain speaks specifically about “The End Of Dormancy.” “I wrote the riffs imagining Roman naval battles with a full orchestra, like the movies from the 50s and 60s. It has a very dramatic vibe. Little did I know that what we synthesized for a four-piece band would eventually explode into its primary, original imagined form.” He describes the crowd’s reaction at the grand finale as one of life’s rare perfect moments.
‘Symphonique’ follows Voïvod’s Juno Award-winning 2022 studio album ‘Synchro Anarchy,’ which charted in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and the Netherlands, and their 40th anniversary release ‘Morgöth Tales’ in 2023.