Canuck heshers Voivod are a long-running, maybe now slightly more grizzled but still important progressive metal group. Nearly 35 years ago, the band recorded a clutch of LPs that birthed the longhairs a NEW and progressive, forward-thinking sound. Shocking, but in the middle of all the 1980s thrash trash, they somehow created actual timeless, classic magic via their savage guitar tones and songwriting and, in doing so, they made all the-then contemporary metal bands redundant. Also tonight: a shit ton o’ ass thrashin’ prog metal from Revocation, Psycroptic, Skeletal Remains, and Conjurer. by Mike Nipper