Voidward to Release Occult Symmetry Feb. 21
If you’re skimming through the below and find yourself a little crossed up, the deal is this: Voidward have a new release coming out. It follows their 2022 self-titled (review here), is called Occult Symmetry, and is being released Feb. 21.
In addition to this, they’ve also got a four-songer called The Plowman 11th Anniversary Edition (streaming below) that takes the opening track from the band’s original 2013 debut EP, Knives, and expands on it in multiple directions and with varied intent in atmosphere and volume. The band have said they want to do revisit the entire EP this way, which is kind of an otherworldly undertaking, but far be it from me to complain.
The ‘macro-single,’ as they’ve dubbed it, is a fascinating project, but don’t be confused into thinking that (presumably any of the versions of) “The Plowman” will make it to Voidward‘s eventual sophomore full-length. Even so, the spirit of adventure represented here does much to remind of what appealed about the first album ahead of the second, so everything works out one way or the other.
The PR wire has details:
PRESS RELEASE: NC heavy psych band VOIDWARD to release new album February 21st, 2025
Hailing from Durham, NC, the mysterious Voidward embraces all that is heavy, wrangling relentless riffs against swirling rhythms through shimmering psychedelia. High concept/low brow guitar+bass+drum epics with vivid vocal melodies and harmonies.
‘Occult Symmetry’ is a fully realized composition, divided into two movements: Light Rider and Dark Miracle. Light Rider and Dark Miracle are two entities engaged in a timeless orbit throughout existence, forever compelled and eternally repulsed by the same desire: Completion in the presence of one another. The Void Cycle is an epic poem describing the culmination of The Void as we know it in the separation of LightRider and Dark Miracle. Occult Symmetry is the prelude to The Void Cycle.
Preceding Occult Symmetry, Voidward released The Plowman 11th Anniversary Edition including a special Desert Bloom edition!
This version of The Plowman is the second installment in the Voidward Macro-Single Series. This is a series of re-inventions on the theme of The Plowman from The knives EP, and when complete, 11 editions of the Plowman will be available through various formats. This is the 11th Anniversary Edition, made available for a limited time to commemorate the upcoming Micro-Album “Occult Symmetry”
The Plowman 11th Anniversary Edition is the response to the initial call of The Void. The mysteries of Occult Symmetry are ahead. The Plowman knows the way.
The Void is heavy, both as a concept and an entity. Voidward is the only way we can experience that heaviness in our current state of consciousness. Sound is the only medium we have access to that, like The Void, is both physical and metaphysical.
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