Killing Technology
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| Studio album by Voivod | ||||
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Publication |
April 3, 1987 |
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admission |
November 27 to December 11, 1986 |
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| Label (s) | Noise Records | |||
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Format (s) |
LP, MC |
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Title (number) |
9 |
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Voivod, Harris Johns |
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Studio (s) |
Musiclab, Berlin |
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Killing Technology is the third studio album by the Canadian metal band Voivod . It was released by Noise Records in April 1987 . The album is the first in the band's history to combine thrash metal with influences from classical and progressive rock . In June 2009, the music magazine Rock Hard included it on its list of 250 Thrash Metal albums that should be known .
Emergence
After the release of the previous album Rrröööaaarrr followed the tour for the album, which was to end in Berlin to record the next studio album. For this reason, guitarist Piggy wrote the songs on the album before the tour started. Harris Johns ' work with Einstürzende Neubauten had sparked an interest in industrial among the Voivod musicians . During the recording and mixing process, bassist Blacky brought his ideas into the pieces Piggy composed. Both he and Piggy were influenced by classical composers like Béla Bartók and Dmitri Shostakovich and they took fragments from their compositions and added them to the pieces on the album. For the first time, the lyrics of the album formed an overall concept for the further development of the Voivod character, which is about a journey of the Voivod with a spaceship . The Voivod stands for the inability of mankind to control the increasing mechanization of the world.
Musical classification
Compared to the previous album, Killing Technology represents a significant step forward in terms of both the skills of the musicians on their instruments and the stylistic direction. The Thrash Metal of the first two albums was enriched with elements from progressive rock , especially the guitar work of Piggy his preference for groups like Yes , King Crimson, and Rush . Piggy expanded his game to include dissonant chords and guitar fingerings across all six strings. Singer Snake had also changed his singing by focusing less on shouting than on clear singing. He also used effects devices to give his voice a robot-like sound.
Track list
- Killing Technology - 7:33
- Overreaction - 4:45
- Tornado - 6:02
- Too Scared to Scream - 4:14
- Forgotten in Space - 6:10
- Ravenous Medicine - 4:23
- Order of the Blackguards - 4:28
- This is not an Exercise - 6:18
- Cockroaches - 3:40
Footnotes
- ↑ Götz Kühnemund : 250 Thrash albums that you should know . In: Rock Hard . No. 265 , June 2009, p. 75 .
- ^ Voivod interview. Discography review with Away (part one: 1984–1991). In .: Rock Guerilla.tv Vol. 22 , DVD supplement to Rock Hard , issue No. 308, December 2012.
- ↑ a b Michael Barclay, Ian AD Jack, Jason Schneider: Have Not Been the Same: The CanRock Renaissance 1985–1995 . ECW Press, Toronto 2011, ISBN 978-1-55022-992-9 , pp. 157 f .
- ↑ Jeff Wagner: Mean Deviation: Four Decades of Progressive Heavy Metal . Bazillion Points Books, 2010, pp. 108 .
- ↑ Andrea Nieradzik: Voivod . In: Metal Hammer . Issue 08/1988, August 1988, pp. 134 f .
- ↑ Jeff Wagner: Mean Deviaition. P. 107.
- ^ A b Jeff Wagner: Mean Deviaition. P. 108.
Web links
- Killing Technology at Allmusic (English)