Writer Jeff Wagner has confirmed the discharge of All the time Shifting: The Unusual Multiverse of Voivod — a mammoth new oral historical past chronicling the 40+ 12 months saga of Canada’s cosmic metallic innovators. The e-book arrives November 17, 2025, by way of Wagner’s personal Radical Analysis imprint.
All the time Shifting is not any slim fan zine. Weighing in at 3 kilos and 540 pages (plus a 12-page shade unfold), the e-book digs into each unusual and good flip of Voivod‘s profession. Wagner carried out interviews between 2020 and 2024 with band members, managers, producers, label heads, household, and a roll name of friends and acolytes — from members of Opeth, Cynic, and Enslaved to underground lifers in Deceased, Virus, and Gorguts.
The consequence, says Wagner, is a definitive doc of the band’s continually mutating sound and their battles to endure each tragedy and triumph. Pre-orders are available now exclusively through Radical Research.
Wagner‘s relationship with Voivod runs deep. A fan since 1985, he has interviewed the band repeatedly because the early ’90s, written bios for his or her self-titled 2003 and Goal Earth albums, labored as product supervisor for The Wake at Century Media, and offered liner notes for his or her 40th anniversary set Morgoth Tales.
Reflecting on the venture, he says: “It is a whole honor to have written this e-book. The band have been solely forthcoming and super-helpful with their time, as was their supervisor, James MacLean. I spoke to each residing member – besides one – for this e-book.
“I additionally spoke with people like Monte Conner, Brian Slagel, Glen Robinson, Wayne Archibald, Harris Johns, Ian Christe, and members of Opeth, Cynic, Anekdoten, Virus, Deceased, Sindrome, Agalloch, Therion, Enslaved, The Accused and Gorguts – and a bunch of other people! – to assist get essentially the most rounded, full image of the band’s affect and impression from individuals who have been near them in quite a lot of capacities.”
If the e-book sounds exhaustive, that is as a result of it’s. “And I held nothing again,” Wagner continues. “There’s virtually no stone left unturned, therefore the dimensions of the e-book. Even the 2 Appendixes are whole nerd-fests that I feel followers will discover amusing and attention-grabbing. I do know I am psyched with the e-book, as a fan, so I feel a number of different diehard Voïvodians can be too.”
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