| 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, thrash metal[1] | |||
| 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 |   [2] |
| Blabbermouth.net | 8/10[3] |
| Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles | 9.5/10[4] |
| Chronicles of Chaos | 8.5/10[5] |
| Metal Storm | (favourable)[6] |
| Rock Hard | 8.5/10[7] |
| Stylus Magazine | B+[8] |
Katorz is the eleventh studio album by 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.[9] After D'Amour's death, Langevin and Bélanger recorded their drum and vocal tracks, respectively, to be added to those existing tracks.[10] The song, "The X-Stream", is included in the videogame Guitar Hero II.
- ^ "Metal Storm Awards 2006 - Metal Storm". Archived from the original on August 26, 2012. Retrieved April 10, 2018.
- ^ Prato, Greg. Katorz at AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-06-16.
- ^ Kaye, Don. "Voivod – "Katorz"". Blabbermouth.net. Retrieved July 22, 2017.
- ^ Popoff, Martin (June 2, 2006). "Voivod – Katorz". Bravewords.com. Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles. Retrieved July 22, 2017.
- ^ Smit, Jackie (August 12, 2006). "Voivod – Katorz". Chronicles of Chaos. Retrieved July 22, 2017.
- ^ "Voivod – Katorz review". Metal Storm. May 25, 2006. Retrieved July 22, 2017.
- ^ Mühlmann, Wolf-Rüdiger (2006). "Review Dynamit: Voivod – Katorz". Rock Hard (in German). No. 231. Retrieved July 22, 2017.
- ^ Lee, Cosmo (August 21, 2006). "Voivod – Katorz". Stylus Magazine. Archived from the original on August 22, 2006. Retrieved July 22, 2017.
- ^ Papadoyianni, Elina (July 13, 2006). "Interview with Michel Away Langevin from Voivod". Metal Temple. Yiannis Mitsakos. Retrieved February 3, 2021.
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 May 7, 2014