Voivod "Katorz"

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.

Track listing
All lyrics written by Snake; all music composed by Voivod.

1. "The Getaway" 3:58
2. "Dognation" 4:06
3. "Mr. Clean" 4:16
4. "After All" 4:44
5. "Odds & Frauds" 4:50
6. "Red My Mind" 4:41
7. "Silly Clones" 3:18
8. "No Angel" 5:06
9. "The X-Stream" 4:58
10. "Polaroids" 5:08

First Voivod album to feature Denis D'Amour (aka Piggy)'s never released material before his death. Not only did he play guitar on all tracks, but the rest of the band also played around his parts.

Notice that the word "quatorze" (spelled as "katorz") means "fourteen" in French. This album is fourteenth in discography (including compilations).

Recording information:
Recorded 2004-2006 at Chophouse, Piccolo and Multisons.
Mixed at Studio Bigras.
Mastered at Masterdisk.