Voivod

Voivod with Midnight celebrating 15 years of Satanic Royalty, with special guests Cryptosis, at The Underworld on 8 June 2026 at 6:00 pm.

Voivod are a Canadian heavy metal band from Jonquière (now part of Saguenay), Quebec. The original line-up consisted of vocalist Denis 'Snake' Bélanger, guitarist Denis 'Piggy' D'Amour, drummer Michel 'Away' Langevin and bassist Jean-Yves 'Blacky' Thériault. The band has had numerous member changes throughout its 43-year career, with Langevin as the only consistent member. The current line-up includes Langevin, Bélanger, Daniel 'Chewy' Mongrain (guitar) and Dominic 'Rocky' Laroche (bass).

Voivod's musical style has changed several times since its inception. Starting out as a speed metal band, they added a mix of progressive and thrash metal to create their own style, and have been credited as progenitors of the technical thrash metal sound along with Coroner, Watchtower, Dark Angel, Mekong Delta, Anacrusis and Blind Illusion, among others. To date, Voivod has released sixteen studio albums, as well as one EP, one live album, two compilations, seven demos and one DVD featuring a live concert. They have been grouped with Sacrifice, Razor and Annihilator as the 'Big Four' of Canadian thrash metal. The band found mainstream success in the late 1980s with their fifth studio album Nothingface (1989), which is Voivod's only album to enter the Billboard 200 chart, peaking at number 114. The band won the Visionary award at the 2017 Progressive Music Awards. In 2019, Voivod's fourteenth studio album, The Wake, won the Juno Award for Metal/Hard Music Album of the Year. Voivod's most recent studio album, Morgöth Tales, a collection of re-recorded songs, was released in July 2023.

Midnight are an American band that play a mixture of black metal, speed metal and punk, a style referred to as black 'n' roll. The band was formed as a solo project by Jamie Walters in 2003 in Cleveland, Ohio. Walters, under the pseudonym Athenar, is the only constant member. While he performs vocals and all instruments in studio recordings, he is accompanied by different musicians during live performances. During their live performances, musicians cover their faces with scarves.