Dvne announce new album ‘Voidkind’

March 12, 2024 James Weaver

DVNE have announced a new album!

Titled Voidkind, the upcoming album from the Scottish progressive post-metal band is the follow-up to 2021’s Etemen Ænka, and is scheduled to be released in April this year, via Metal Blade Records.

Speaking about the upcoming album, guitarist/vocalist Victor Vicart says, “we wanted very distinct left and right guitars, and punchier drums and bass, which would transcribe better live. And the synths needed to be clearer; it’s very easy to put five guitars on each side, loads of different vocals and keys, but then you end up watching a band with an album you really like, and the songs sound nothing like the record. That’s what we wanted to avoid. As soon as the song starts, we want people to immediately recognise the riff.”

One book that has been particularly impactful on the band’s thought process: 1989 novel Hyperion by Dan Simmonds. Notes Vicart, “it’s a very dark sci-fi book with loads of interesting parts, so you can go really prog with it, but you can also go more violent and animalistic.” Further inspirational touchstones include FromSoftware video game Dark Souls, and the Japanese manga series that inspired it, Berserk, “it’s a very cool, violent, psychedelic, medieval dark fantasy. We wanted to have these kinds of visuals and aesthetics on this album, in this mix-up of things. Even without the vocals we wanted to evoke something, different places and spaces, and take the listener on a journey.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Plerõma.

Speaking about the new song, Vicart says, “Plerõma is a concept that has appeared in Gnosticism, Greek Philosophy, and Judeo-Christian religions. In Gnosticism, it is the spiritual universe as the abode of God and of the totality of the divine powers and emanations. It is also the ultimate source of transformation. Plerõma is a key moment of the album narrative where religious followers are consuming the essence of their deity and reach a new sense of awakened existence. It is the first step in their transformation. Musically it also represents something similar to us, as it is a song that is bringing new elements that we didn‘t explore musically until that point.”

Watch the official music video for Plerõma here:

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:

Track List:

1. Summa Blasphemia
2. Eleonor
3. Reaching for Telo
4. Reliquar
5. Path of Dust
6. Sarmatae
7. Path of Ether
8. Abode of the Perfect Soul
9. Plerõma
10. Cobalt Sun Necropoli

And that’s not all from DVNE! To support their upcoming album, the band will embark on a headlining European and UK tour from April through to June this year. Support for the tour comes from SLEEMO, CONJURER and MY DILIGENCE on select dates.

Tour dates are as follows:

4/23/2024 The Cluny – Newcastle, UK
4/24/2024 Brudenell — Leeds, UK
4/25/2024 Voodoo Daddies – Norwich, UK
4/26/2024 Green Door Store – Brighton, UK
4/27/2024 The Exchange – Bristol, UK
4/28/2024 Devils Dog – Birmingham, UK
5/04/2024 Headbangers – Ball Izegem, BE
5/05/2024 P8 – Karlsruhe, DE
5/07/2024 Casseopia – Berlin, DE
5/08/2024 Rosenkeller – Jena, DE
5/09/2024 Schon Schön – Mainz, DE
5/10/2024 Dunk Festival – Ghent, BE
5/11/2024 Hall Of Fame – Tilburg, NL
5/16/2024 La Belle Angele – Edinburgh, UK
5/19/2024 Desertfest, – London, UK
5/22/2024 Le Ferrailleur – Nantes, FR
5/23/2024 Le Confort Moderne – Poitiers, FR
5/24/2024 Le Rex – Toulouse, FR
5/26/2024 L‘Antirouille – Montpellier, FR
5/28/2024 Les Caves du Manoir – Martigny, CH
5/29/2024 Amperage – Grenoble, FR
5/30/2024 La Laiterie – Strasbourg, FR
5/31/2024 Black Lab – Lille, FR
6/01/2024 Le Petit Bain – Paris, FR
6/02/2024 Club Zentral – Stuttgart, DE
6/04/2024 Rockhouse – Salzburg, AT
6/05/2024 Dürer Kert – Budapest, HU
6/06/2024 Escape – Vienna, AT
6/08/2024 Mystic Festival – Gdansk, PL
6/09/2024 Into The Grave Festival – Leeuwarden, NL
6/11/2024 Le Botanique – Brussels, BE
6/19/2024 Copenhell – Copenhagen, DK