Dimension Hatröss
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| Studio album by Voivod | ||||
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Publication |
March 1988 (Europe) |
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| Label (s) | Noise Records | |||
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Format (s) |
LP, CD |
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Title (number) |
8th |
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running time |
41 min 37 s |
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Studio (s) |
Musiclab, Berlin |
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Dimension Hatröss is the fourth studio album by the Canadian metal band Voivod and was released in 1988.
Emergence
Shortly after recording Killing Technology in early 1987, the band began to write new songs. The majority of the tracks on the album was in the time between the US - and Europe - tour . Immediately after the tour was over, on December 4, 1987, recording began in the Musiclab studio in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg . The producer was Harris Johns, who had already taken on this task when recording Killing Technology . The musicians turned out to be very eager to experiment, so singer Denis Belanger used the studio's intercom system for his vocal recordings and drummer Michel Langevin used electronic drums in places . About the creation of the song Tribal Convictions , guitarist Denis D'Amour said that the whole song was basically created around the tremolo guitar effect used . The band stayed in the studio until January 4th, 1988 and, according to their own statements, enjoyed the atmosphere in divided Berlin and the mild European winter temperatures compared to their home in Québec .
In March 1988 the German independent label Noise Records released the album in Europe, in Canada and the USA the release took place in June of the same year. On the first edition of the LP there was a sticker with the words “Canada's Nuclear Metal warriors. More psychedelic than ever. The cult lives! ”Attached. The CD version contained the track Batman , a cover version by Neal Hefti . Shortly after its appearance on the radio of the GDR , the album was offered for free recording on DT 64 in the program Duett: Musik für den Rekorder .
Musical meaning
The album marks the band's transition from pure Thrash Metal with punk influences to Progressive Metal , which reached its commercial climax with Nothingface . For the song Tribal Convictions , a music video was released that gave the band the breakthrough.
Concept and design
The basic concept and design came from drummer Michel Langevin, who was inspired by popular scientific magazines of his time such as Omni or Discover :
“The story is about this gigantic particle accelerator that creates a microuniverse in the laboratory through a mini big bang, to which the Voivod then travels to study evolution. Unfortunately the whole thing ends in a war of apocalyptic proportions, whereupon the Voivod tries to stop the experiment because it is a complete failure. "
It is in dimension hatröss a concept album . The A-side of the LP is called the prologue , the B-side is called the epilogue . In the first piece of experiment , the Voivod creates the artificial universe and travels into it. There he meets in tribal convictions on creatures of low intelligence who consider him a god. The third song, Chaos Mongers, is about his encounter with an extremely aggressive way of life that would be called a terrorist in the real world. Technocratic Manipulator describes the ruling class in this world as technocrats who oppress and control the population. This piece was inspired by the book 1984 . The epilogue begins in Macrosolutions to Megaproblems with the fight of the “Chaos Mongers” against the government. In Brain Scan , the Voivod encounters a highly developed species that only exists mentally and in Psychic Vacuum tries to penetrate the interior of the Voivod. Thereupon he escapes from this microcosm back to his laboratory in Cosmic Drama and destroys his creation.
The term "Hatröss" for the created microcosm is an idea of Langevin, who combined hate (English "hate") and atroce (French "horrible") to form this word. The album cover is also by Langevin and is the last one he painted. In the following years he switched to computer graphics .
Reviews
Greg Prato from Allmusic certifies that the musicians grew up with the album and calls guitarist Denis D'Amour one of the best metal guitarists. Like other reviewers, he highlights the changed singing style of Denis Belanger, who, unlike on the previous albums, no longer screams. Thomas Kupfer notes that with this album Voivod succeeded for the first time in “steering the uncompromising Thrash Metal” of the first three albums “into smarter paths” and describes the band's style as “Psycho Thrash”.
Track list
- experiment
- Tribal Convictions
- Chaos Monger
- Technocratic manipulators
- Macrosolutions to Megaproblems
- Brain scan
- Psychic Vacuum
- Cosmic drama
- Batman (bonus title)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Borivoj Krgin: Voivod interview. In: Metal Forces # 25, 1988. voivod.net, accessed November 27, 2012 (English).
- ↑ Jeff Kitts: Voivod Interview. In: Metal Mania 10/1988. voivod.net, accessed November 27, 2012 (English).
- ↑ Jon Chappell: Voivod's Denis D'Amour. In: Guitar Magazine, December 1993. voivod.net, accessed November 27, 2012 .
- ^ Paul Elliott: Voivod interview. In: Sounds Magazine 12/1988. voivod.net, accessed November 27, 2012 (English).
- ^ Greg Prato: Review of "Dimension Hatröss". allmusic.com, accessed September 19, 2009 .
- ↑ Thomas Kupfer: Review of "Dimension Hatröss" . In: Rock Hard . No. 26 .
swell
- Rock Hard (Ed.): Best of Rock & Metal. The 500 strongest discs of all time . Heel Verlag, Königswinter 2007, ISBN 978-3-89880-517-9 , pp. 180 .
- Buffo: Classic: Voivod - Dimension Hatröss . In: Rock Hard . No. 269 , p. 100 .