Litera (Album 2025)

Vøvk

Post-Hardcore Stoner Prog Fusion Rock

Fall 2025, two Prog Rock heavyweights cover the continent of Europe from East to West and back. One are the French Birds Of Nazca, raising unity with „Pangaea“. The other one is from Ukraine, talking of ‚struggle, loss, hope, and renewal‘ as well. 

Two heralds, Vøvk published in the run-up to „Litera“. Now they are surrounded by five more tracks, bundled as one. The artwork displays a smoldering fire in the steppe. Underneath the bold title, seven symbols stand for the seven songs, each with a separate graphic, assembled in a full animated visual story. 

So in a way, the signs remind of legendary Led Zeppelin IV including „Stairway To Heaven“. Now Vøvk are about huge melodies as well, as they show right from the beginning. Ingredients like from Black Peaks or Metal flavors like from Tremonti carry the relentless drive, punching in with Screamo parts. 

So the start of „Iskra“ can make think of the Foo Fighters, while „Leleka“ later on brings up some Kotiteollisuus or Stam1na. To make it grow, Vøvk got members of Zwyntar, Omana, Straytones, Svitaie, Cult of Luna, NeGruzovyky and more to lend their voices. 

Their forward-facing style and harmonies build one mountain peak after another, always the Hard Rock way with alternative roots like Bob Tilton or Red Sun Atacama. From those mountains down the jungle with the „Tyhr“ to the desert, Vøvk are the score of everything with their music. 

In the end, they take it all down to where life comes from: to the „Okean“, that Birds Of Nazca kind of opened up in their record. Like Dronte, they lay the spoken words upon the ringing notes and riffs. It definitely feels like the signs are good. At least in Prog and its world, Vøvk illustrated with their own notion.