Katorz
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| Studio album by Voivod | ||||
| Released | July 25, 2006 | |||
| Recorded | 2004 - 2006 | |||
| Genre | Progressive metal, thrash metal, heavy metal, hard rock | |||
| Length | 45:10 | |||
| Label | The End, Nuclear Blast | |||
| Producer | Glen Robinson and Voivod | |||
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| Stylus Magazine | B+ |
Katorz is the fourteenth album, and the eleventh studio album by the Canadian heavy metal band Voivod, and was released on July 25, 2006. The name of the album is phonetic for "quatorze", the French word for fourteen.
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 were recorded by D'Amour and bassist Jason Newsted (formerly of Metallica) on D'Amour's Mac at Newsted's house in California. After D'Amour's death, Langevin and Bélanger recorded their drum and vocal tracks, respectively, to be added to those existing tracks. The song, "The X-Stream", is included in Guitar Hero II.
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