Dimension Hatross

Voivod | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 16, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Noise
• ASIN: B00000I3VF
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #53,079 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Powerful magnets, interchange the mass", March 23, 2005

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Church of The Flaming Sword - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dimension Hatross (Audio CD)

The music world was just not ready for _Dimension Hatross_ when it was released in 1988. Back then, rock music was dominated by people who spent more time sculpting their hair than writing songs. This album for its time was akin to the F-18 being built right after the Wright Brothers conducted their little flight at Kitty Hawk. Of course this was lost on a public who only wanted to hear from Bon Jovi, Poison, or Def Leppard.

I don't pretend like I know the guys in the band, but _DH_ to me represents Voivod being their most "Voivodesque". It is a happy medium between the heavy and nihilistic facets of their earlier material and the progressive elements that would surface on future albums. While not too many gave that much though about it during the 80s or 90s, this "heavy and progressive" philosophy now has better-known devotees like Meshuggah and Mastodon. Both of those bands have yet to release anything that ranks below excellent.

The concept tells of the Voivod being who finds itself in an experiment with a particle accelerator, in which protons and anti-protons collide into each other. The explosion from the collision creates a micro-galaxy for the Voivod to explore and gather information from. Along the way; the Voivod encounters a primitive tribal society who see it as their messiah, anarcho-terrorists, Orwellian technocrats, non-corporeal parasites who steal mental energy, and the destruction of this newly created galaxy. But who had time for that when that guy in Def Leppard wanted you to pour sugar on him?

Like the protons and antiprotons that created the micro-galaxy, _DH_ is a universe of contradictions. It's progressive but punkish. It has a huge cosmic feel without losing its endearing low-budget grit. It's chaotic but disciplined. It's beautiful without being schmaltzy. And for something released 17 years ago, it's still ahead of its time. And will probably be for sometime to come.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of metal's greatest albums ever, August 21, 2005

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Scott Hedegard "Scott" (Fayetteville, AR USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dimension Hatross (Audio CD)

If I were stranded on a desert island and could have only five metal albums, they would be, at least right now, "Beg To Differ" from Prong, Sepultra's "Arise", Exodus' "Tempo Of The Damned", Judas Priest's "British Steel" and Voivod's "Dimension Hatross."
This seminal industrial metal album was and is still too heavy and complex for many listeners and, as indicated in other reviews, far ahead of its time. Many fans love the lyrical content, with its odes to machine dominance, questions of sanity and all sorts of futuristic meanderings. What makes this CD great is the guitar work of Denis "Piggy" D'Amour.
D'Amour is a jazz guitar fan who takes complex jazz theory and distorts the results and cranks it up to 11 and then combines it with the attack of metal. "Piggy" has melded atonal experimentation, jazz improvisation worthy of Miles Davis' "Bitches Brew" with classic metal and the result is an industrial thrashing that has no equal. "Blacky", the former bassist, provides distorted bass with melodic riffing to hold down the arrangements and keep them from tipping over the edge into total chaos.
This album will continue to grow in stature as more generations discover its timelessness and groundbreaking expeditions into musical territory no metal band has ever explored before. It's simply a must have for anybody who considers themselves cutting edge metal afficionados or just likes any music that dares to break the rules. In this case, "Dimension Hatross" not only breaks the rules of metal, it shatters them and renders them useless.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Voivod Album!, April 20, 2000

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This review is from: Dimension Hatross (Audio CD)

Most people look at "Nothingface" as the peak of Voivods innovative sound but I disagree. Dimension Hatross is the perfect balance between the early thrash and later progressive space metal Voivod would explore. Dimension Hatross is a powerful and unique album loaded with dissonant, crunching, catchy and interesting riffs. Snake cut down on the screaming and explored a new almost robotic vocal style. It blasted through the boundries of the typical speed metal scene and made us all wonder....what will Voivod do next? I don't know about the rest of you...but the dissonant chords Piggy plays on Hatross can be found in many 90's recording acts CD's. Voivod were always innovative and this is their best album!