Canadian progressive sci-fi metal innovators, Voivod, will release their new studio album, Synchro Anarchy, worldwide on February 11 via Century Media Records.

Today, the band have released their new single and title track, “Synchro Anarchy”. Make sure to check the album’s title track in a powerful video created by Syl Disjonk / 5600 K productions, below.

Drummer Michel “Away” Langevin comments about the song stating, “After coming back from the European tour with GWAR at the end of 2019, we took a break and got back together in early 2020 to record some new ideas and improvisations. After finishing one of these sessions, while untying my running shoes, I had a flash of a rhythm where I would skip one beat every bar. I told the band I had an idea and walked towards the drums but I stepped on one of my shoelaces, missed a step and almost fell on the drum kit.

Everybody laughed, then I played the beat, which Chewy recorded and named ‘Away’s Shoelace Incident’. This gave Snake the idea to write about these strange timings where somebody would stop to tie up his shoe only to be closely missed by a flying wheel of a car. At one point Snake had shorten the title to ‘Shoelace’ but I noticed in his lyrics the words Synchro Anarchy and told him it would be a great name for the song.

When we were done recording the songs we all thought it would also be a good title for the album. It is really representative of the planet we live on and the way we had to build the LP out of snippets of ideas like a huge puzzle.

For this single, we asked our good friend Syl Disjonk, who did the videos for ‘The End Of Dormancy’ and ‘Kluskap ‘O Kom’, to film the band and work his magic. So here it is, the title track of the new album, enjoy!”

Closing in on 40 eventful years of existence, Voivod are returning with their 15th studio album, reaffirming they are one of the most fervently creative bands in the universe. Synchro Anarchy follows 2018's highly praised and Juno Award winning The Wake album, as well as 2020’s stellar Lost Machine - Live release.

Michel “Away” Langevin adds, “We are eager to present our latest work, a real collaborative effort. The new album represents countless hours of writing, demoing, recording, mixing and so on. The band and Francis Perron at RadicArt Studio gave their very best to make it happen under unusual circumstances, which led us to call it Synchro Anarchy. We feel that the sound and music are 100% Voïvod, and we hope everyone will enjoy it as much as we had fun making it. We certainly can’t wait to play it live!”

Synchro Anarchy was recorded and mixed by Francis Perron at RadicArt Studio in Québec, Canada and mastered by Maor Appelbaum at Maor Appelbaum Mastering in California, and produced by Voivod. The album features cover artwork by Michel “Away” Langevin.

The LP format of Synchro Anarchy is available to pre-order here, and will come on 180g vinyl with an A2 poster and will be available in the following variants/limitations.

- Black LP & Poster - unlimited
- Transp. Green LP & Poster - 1500x copies via CM Distro & Webshop Europe & all US outlets
- Transp. Sun Yellow LP & Poster - 300x copies via CM Webshop Europe
- White LP & Poster - 300x copies via all Canadian outlets & Napalm Records
- Silver LP & Poster - 300x copies via Nuclear Blast
- Red LP & Poster - 300x copies via EMP
- Sky Blue LP & Poster - 400x copies via Voïvod on tour

Voivod Synchro Anarchy tracklisting:

"Paranormalium"
"Synchro Anarchy"
"Planet Eaters"
"Mind Clock"
"Sleeves Off"
"Holographic Thinking"
"The World Today"
"Quest For Nothing"
"Memory Failure"

"Paranormalium" lyric video:

"Planet Eaters" video:

Voivod is:

Denis “Snake” Belanger (vocals)
Daniel “Chewy” Mongrain (guitar)
Dominic “Rocky” Laroche (bass)
Michel “Away” Langevin (drums)

(Photo - Catherine Deslauriers)