Katorz
| Katorz | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | July 25, 2006 | |||
| Recorded | 2004–2006 | |||
| Studio | Chophouse Records, California (original demos) Studio Piccolo and Studio Multisons, Montreal, Quebec, Canada | |||
| Genre | Heavy metal, progressive metal, thrash metal | |||
| Length | 45:10 | |||
| Label | The End (US) Nuclear Blast (Europe) Victor (Japan) | |||
| Producer | Glen Robinson and Voivod | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Blabbermouth.net | 8/10[2] |
| Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles | 9.5/10[3] |
| Chronicles of Chaos | 8.5/10[4] |
| Metal Storm | (favourable)[5] |
| Rock Hard | 8.5/10[6] |
| Stylus Magazine | B+[7] |
Katorz is the eleventh studio album and fourteenth release overall by the Canadian heavy metal band Voivod, released on July 25, 2006.
Demos for the album had been made, but before the band could properly begin recording it guitarist Denis D'Amour (a.k.a. Piggy) died on August 25, 2005 due to colon cancer. The guitar and bass tracks for Katorz had been recorded by D'Amour and bassist Jason Newsted (formerly of Metallica) on D'Amour's Mac at Newsted's house in California. When D'Amour would send the band a Pro Tools CD of the demos, he wrote "Katorz" on it, a phonetic spelling of "quatorze", the French word for fourteen.[8] After D'Amour's death, Langevin and Bélanger recorded their drum and vocal tracks, respectively, to be added to those existing tracks.[9] The song, "The X-Stream", is included in the videogame Guitar Hero II.
Track listing
All lyrics are written by Denis Bélanger; all music is composed by Voivod
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "The Getaway" | 3:58 |
| 2. | "Dognation" | 4:06 |
| 3. | "Mr. Clean" | 4:16 |
| 4. | "After All" | 4:44 |
| 5. | "Odds & Frauds" | 4:50 |
| 6. | "Red My Mind" | 4:41 |
| 7. | "Silly Clones" | 3:18 |
| 8. | "No Angel" | 5:06 |
| 9. | "The X-Stream" | 4:58 |
| 10. | "Polaroids" | 5:08 |
Personnel
- Voivod
- Denis Bélanger a.k.a. Snake - vocals
- Denis D'Amour a.k.a. Piggy - guitar, interludes
- Jason Newsted a.k.a. Jasonic - bass guitar, backing vocals
- Michel Langevin a.k.a. Away - drums, interludes, artwork
- Additional musicians
- Ramachandra Borcar - interludes
- Production
- Glen Robinson - producer, mixing with Voivod
- Dominique Lejeune, Olivier Ouimet - assistant engineers
- Howie Weinberg - mastering at Masterdisk, New York
References
- ^ Prato, Greg. Katorz at AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-06-16.
- ^ Kaye, Don. "Voivod - "Katorz"". Blabbermouth.net. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
- ^ Popoff, Martin (2 June 2006). "Voivod - Katorz". Bravewords.com. Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
- ^ Smit, Jackie (12 August 2006). "Voivod - Katorz". Chronicles of Chaos. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
- ^ "Voivod - Katorz review". Metal Storm. 25 May 2006. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
- ^ Mühlmann, Wolf-Rüdiger (2006). "Review Dynamit: Voivod - Katorz". Rock Hard (in German). No. 231. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
- ^ Lee, Cosmo (21 August 2006). "Voivod - Katorz". Stylus Magazine. Archived from the original on 22 August 2006. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
- ^ Papadoyianni, Elina (2006-07-13). "Interview with Michel Away Langevin from Voivod". Metal Temple. Yiannis Mitsakos. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
When Piggy was doing the demos in 2004, every time he brought us a pro-tool CD, he wrote Katorz on it, so we thought it was very natural to name the album Katorz.
- ^ Pardo, Pete (2006), "Jason Newsted Speaks About Voivod's Katorz!", Sea of Tranquility, retrieved 2014-05-07
