DELIVERANCE
The Voyager Golden Banquet

Weary of earthly life, Deliverance sets out to explore the farthest reaches of the universe with a new album whose title sounds like an invitation to interstellar travel: The Voyager Golden Banquet.
Formed in 2013 by Etienne Sarthou (guitar, Karras, ex-AqME, Freitot) and Pierre Duneau (vocals & keyboards, ex-Memories of a Dead Man), the band released their first EP (Doomsday Please), followed by their debut album CHRST on the Deadlight label. But it was truly with their second and third albums that Deliverance established themselves as a cornerstone of the French avant-garde metal scene. Titled Holocaust 26:1-46 (2020) and Neon Chaos in a Junk-Sick Dawn (2022), these two landmark releases earned widespread acclaim from the specialist press (including Album of the Month and two full four-page features in Rock Hard, 8/10 in New Noise, plus interviews and glowing reviews in numerous French and international metal webzines and media). The albums also secured the band performing slots at prestigious festivals such as Hellfest 2022 (Temple Stage), Motocultor 2023 (Main Stage), Post in Paris 2022, Lions Metal Fest 2023, Rise & Fall 2023, and Tyrant Fest 2023.
Now signed to the esteemed label Les Acteurs de l’Ombre since their third album, this fourth opus (set for release on 22 May 2026) sees the band break free from all artistic and musical boundaries. While Deliverance’s black metal/sludge DNA remains intact, it is now confronted with elements of post-rock and progressive rock, Floydian psychedelia, and even contemporary indie rock/electro — all previously uncharted territory in this musical sphere.
The Voyager Golden Banquet invites the listener to leave Earth and its landmarks to lose themselves in the labyrinth of the vast unknown. A journey by turns tumultuous, unsettling, even terrifying, but also soothing and luminous. A space odyssey that paints a more cinematic sonic landscape than ever before.
If Neon Chaos was a cathartic and oppressive album, this new release reflects artists in search of an inner peace that can only be found by embarking on an all-or-nothing adventure. A quest for light with no possibility of return.