Voyag3r

The Detroit outfit Voyag3r, whose name is pronounced Voyager 3, specializes in experimental rock modeled on the scores of vintage horror, action, and science-fiction cinema. Keyboardist Steve Greene, guitarist Aaron Greene, and drummer Greg Mastin comprise the trio, whose mix of analog synthesizers, guitars, and both live and programmed drums draws from John Carpenter's pioneering approach while echoing the style of Trans Am, Teeth of the Sea, and Zombi, a range heard from the 2016 album Are You Synthetic? through the 2024 soundtrack Killer Kabbage.

Early 2013 saw the band track its debut single, "Victory in the Battle Chamber," which Bellyache Records issued that June. Late the same year the group entered the studio to cut its first full-length, resulting in 2014's Doom Fortress; two tracks from the album appeared in the short film Portal to Hell!, which starred "Rowdy" Roddy Piper. Voyag3r followed with the single "Secret of the Ice Mountain" later in 2014. The full-length Are You Synthetic? arrived in 2016, and the band supplied the track "Appearance Of The Mysterious Traveler" to the soundtrack of Rise of the Synths, a crowdfunded documentary on synthwave and retro electronic music. War Mask, released in 2019, highlighted the group's rock tendencies alongside its foundations in classic '70s synth textures and included a cover of King Crimson's "Red." Later that year Voyag3r issued "Appearance of the Mysterious Traveler" as a single.

The 2020s opened with two soundtrack projects. Music for New York Ninja, a 1984 John Liu film restored with newly recorded sound and dialogue, appeared in January 2022. Two years afterward the trio composed and performed the score for Killer Kabbage, the story of two warriors from the future charged with averting "the great Kabbage apocalypse."