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Perryscope Concerts and The Vogue Theatre are proud to present the Shockwave Festival in Vancouver. This all day metal event features death metal forefathers Fear Factory, iconic Canadians Voivod and genre spawning Cattle Decapitation at the The Vogue Theatre on Saturday July 7, 2012.

Metal is not easily dissected. The list of subgenres is extensive and complex. Shockwave has assembled a literal tour de force with twelve bands taking the stage during the day long testament to all things metal. Bands include Misery Index, Revocation, Havok, Dirge Within, Last Chance to Reason, Vildhjarta, The Browning and Forged in Flame.

Fear Factory entered the metal scene with a crushing debut with 1992’s Soul Of A New Machine. Combining death metal with an industrial influence, Fear Factory’s earliest sound was immediately distinguishable by intense machine-like drumming and dual vocal style, which seemed to effortlessly switch between animalistic growls and clear, operatic tones. Fear Factory had set a new standard in extreme music, a standard they would continue to bear to this very day.

Montreal's Voivod has long been heralded as an innovative and visionary force within the world of extreme music. For more than 25 years, the band has performed heavy metal alchemy by fusing various strains of thrash, punk, hardcore, progressive, and psychedelia to create some of the most engaging, provocative, and, oft times, surprisingly accessible music of their day. Voivod has pushed its musical sci-fi story to the end of infinity and re-emerged, reinvented, and revitalized itself countless times over and remains a respected name in circles where quality music and ideas, not gimmicks and trends, are held in high esteem.

Well over a decade since its inception, Cattle Decapitation has forged its not-so-humble beginnings in veggie gore-grind into one of extreme metal's most relentless forces, encompassing a sound as schizophrenic as their record collections but with a determined lyrical stance resolutely damning the ills of humanity. With countless tours under their belt as well as having influenced the majority of today's rapidly-growing-in-popularity death/grind hopefuls, Cattle Decapitation continue their own brand of spastic gore-drenched grinding death.