Negatron (album)

Negatron is the eighth studio album by Canadian heavy metal band Voivod, released on November 21, 1995 through Hypnotic Records worldwide and Mausoleum Records in the US. It is the first studio album not to feature original singer Denis "Snake" Bélanger, who temporarily left the band in 1994, with bass player Eric Forrest assuming vocal duties for the recording. The album also features Foetus frontman JG Thirlwell as a guest vocalist on the final track "D.N.A. (Don't No Anything)".

Negatron
Studio album by
Voivod
ReleasedNovember 21, 1995
StudioHypnotic Studios, Toronto, Canada
GenreHeavy metal, avant-garde metal
Length51:39
LabelHypnotic
Mausoleum/BMG (US)
ProducerDaryn Barry, Alfio Annibalini & Voivod
Voivod chronology
The Outer Limits
(1993)		 Negatron
(1995)		 Phobos
(1997)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Chronicles of Chaos8/10[2]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal8/10[3]
Rock Hard8.5/10[4]
Sputnikmusic3.5/5[5]

Album information

The album is considered a departure from Voivod's previous progressive metal style, with the band adopting elements of industrial metal while "they pollute their avant-garde punk metal"[5] and death metal growls within a heavy metal framework.[1]

The CD release is notable for including multimedia tracks in CD-ROM format, which was a novelty at the time.

Track listing

All music by Voivod. All lyrics by Michel Langevin and Eric Forrest, except where indicated.

  1. "Insect" - 5:41
  2. "Project X" - 4:49
  3. "Nanoman" (lyrics: Langevin, Ivan Doroschuk) - 5:11
  4. "Reality?" - 4:21
  5. "Negatron" (lyrics: Langevin, Kiisti Matsuo) - 7:08
  6. "Planet Hell" - 4:34
  7. "Meteor" - 4:14
  8. "Cosmic Conspiracy" - 6:10
  9. "Bio-TV" - 4:55
  10. "Drift" - 5:41
  11. "D.N.A. (Don't No Anything)" (lyrics: JG Thirlwell) - 4:36

A limited edition of 750 copies was available with the same track listing. This limited edition came in a tin box with a Negatron sticker.

Personnel
Voivod
Additional musicians
Production
  • Daryn Barry, Alfio Annibalini - producers, engineers, mixing
  • Bruce Longman, Michael Zarich - assistant engineers
  • Rob Fischer, Joe Melo - digital editing
  • Eddy Schreyer - mastering

References
  1. Prato, Greg. "Voivod - Negatron review". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 2017-07-18.
  2. Bromley, Adrian (8 November 1995). "Voivod - Negatron". Chronicles of Chaos. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  3. Popoff, Martin (1 August 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. pp. 490–491. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9.
  4. Stratmann, Holger (1995). "Review Dynamit: Voivod - Negatron". Rock Hard (in German). No. 100. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  5. "Voivod - Negatron". Sputnikmusic. 17 December 2011. Retrieved 2017-07-18.
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