VOIVOD Confirmed For Montreal's 'Suoni Per Il Popolo' Festival

Canadian metal innovators VOIVOD have been confirmed for the Suoni Per Il Popolo, set to take place June 6-23 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

The self-proclaimed festival of "liberation music" is celebrating its 12th year in 2012. For those unfamiliar with the event, it covers a variety of experimental and avant-garde genres, including "free jazz, noise, electronica, turntable art, soundscapes, experimental rock and pop, musique actuelle, and spoken word," according to a press release.

VOIVOD entered Pierre Rémillard's (OBLIVEON, CRYPTOPSY, KRISIUN, MISERY INDEX) Wild Studio in January in a small town called St-Zénon in Quebec, Canada to begin recording their new album for a tentative summer release. The follow-up to 2009's "Infini" will contain the band's first music to be written with new guitarist Daniel "Chewy" Mongrain (MARTYR) following the passing of original axeman Denis "Piggy" D'Amour in 2005.