ARTIST: Voivod
TITLE: Negatron
STYLE: Thrash, Speed Metal, Heavy Metal
FORMAT: CD
LABEL: Mausoleum Records / BMG
Pressing from 1997 on Mausoleum Records / BMG in excellent condition. The eighth studio album from VOIVOD "Negatron".
VOIVOD are a Canadian thrash band influenced by the NWOBHM, Hardcore and Progressive Rock. VOIVOD are easily identifiable by their use of unusual time signatures, dissonant guitar chords and lyrical themes influenced by post-apocalyptic literature, cold war politics and science fiction.
After the poor sales for the underrated "Outer Limits", Voivod frontman Snake left the band in 1994 to focus on a new project Union Made, and replacement Eric Forest was hired as frontman and bassist. Thus starts the band’s fallow 90s period that all Thrash acts seemed to go through, although the difference between Voivod and most others is that the Canadians’ step sideways didn’t put their musical talent into abeyance, it changed it. Moving from warm prog to cold industrial, "Negatron" is a cast-iron beast of an album, bleak and oppressive, heavy and crushing with barely a breather. It’s less atmospheric than the following "Phobos", preferring to bludgeon the listener into submission, and fittingly Forest’s voice is more of a terrified shriek than Snake’s sneering singing. Although it takes a little while to get used to, he was about as good a replacement as it was possible to get. The stars of the show, however, are without a doubt guitarist Piggy and drummer Away, whose contributions pretty much save this album. Another accomplished exploration for Voivod.
TRACKLIST:
1 Insect 5:41
2 Project X 4:49
3 Nanoman 5:10
4 Reality? 4:21
5 Negatron 7:08
6 Planet Hell 4:33
7 Meteor 4:14
8 Cosmic Conspiracy 6:09
9 Bio-TV 4:54
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