Formed in Edinburgh in 2013 by displaced Frenchman Victor Vicart and native Scot Dudley Tait, progressive post-metal/sludge artisans DVNE have been building a powerful head of steam since their second album, 2021’s kaleidoscopically mesmerizing Etemen Ænka. Their first release for the legendary Metal Blade Records label, the LP was a concerted hike up the greasy pole for this enigmatic outfit, enabling DVNE to embark on UK and European headline tours and win spots at such discerning festivals as Hellfest, ArcTanGent, Desertfest, Damnation, and Resurrection.

Now in 2024, stunning third album Voidkind looks set to propel this expanded five-piece line-up (welcoming Maxime Keller on keyboards) to the top of their game.Voidkind succeeds in finding new modes of expression for DVNE. The songs are more pointed, direct, and memorable, but the soundscape still has a radiant, evolving, hypnotic flow, the effect achieved with fewer layers of sonic ornamentation, consciously urging closer to DVNE’s incendiary live sound.

CD/ 2LP:

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. Pleroma
10. Cobalt Sun Necropoli

LINE-UP:

Victor Vicart - guitars, vocals
Allan Paterson - bass
Dudley Tait - drums
Daniel Barter - guitars, vocals
Maxime Keller - keys