Katorz

Katorz is the eleventh studio album and fourteenth release overall by the Canadian heavy metal band Voivod, released on July 25, 2006.

Katorz
Studio album by
Voivod
ReleasedJuly 25, 2006
Recorded2004–2006
StudioChophouse Records, California (original demos)
Studio Piccolo and Studio Multisons, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
GenreHeavy metal, progressive metal, thrash metal
Length45:10
LabelThe End (US)
Nuclear Blast (Europe)
Victor (Japan)
ProducerGlen Robinson and Voivod
Voivod chronology
Voivod
(2003)		 Katorz
(2006)		 Infini
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Blabbermouth.net8/10[2]
Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles9.5/10[3]
Chronicles of Chaos8.5/10[4]
Metal Storm(favourable)[5]
Rock Hard8.5/10[6]
Stylus MagazineB+[7]

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.TitleLength
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
Additional musicians
Production
  • Glen Robinson - producer, mixing with Voivod
  • Dominique Lejeune, Olivier Ouimet - assistant engineers
  • Howie Weinberg - mastering at Masterdisk, New York

References
  1. Prato, Greg. Katorz at AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-06-16.
  2. Kaye, Don. "Voivod - "Katorz"". Blabbermouth.net. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
  3. Popoff, Martin (2 June 2006). "Voivod - Katorz". Bravewords.com. Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
  4. Smit, Jackie (12 August 2006). "Voivod - Katorz". Chronicles of Chaos. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
  5. "Voivod - Katorz review". Metal Storm. 25 May 2006. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
  6. Mühlmann, Wolf-Rüdiger (2006). "Review Dynamit: Voivod - Katorz". Rock Hard (in German). No. 231. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  7. Lee, Cosmo (21 August 2006). "Voivod - Katorz". Stylus Magazine. Archived from the original on 22 August 2006. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
  8. 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.
  9. Pardo, Pete (2006), "Jason Newsted Speaks About Voivod's Katorz!", Sea of Tranquility, retrieved 2014-05-07
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