Infini

Voivod | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 23, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Relapse
• ASIN: B0028ERC3O
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #39,113 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

2009 release, the final album from the Metal legends. Infini contains the last thirteen songs written by the band's late guitarist Denis Piggy D'Amour and features bassist Jason "Jasonic" Newsted (ex-Metallica). Jason played bass on all the songs and mixed the album. Infini was built from the final songs created by the band with D'Amour. All his original demo guitar tracks appear as they were recorded: with no re-amping and no overdubs; just Piggy as he played the tracks he envisioned in his small bachelor apartment, the amp in the bathroom, capturing his performance with the laptop given to him by Jason.

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sonic flight through space., June 27, 2009

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kosis - See all my reviews

This review is from: Infini (Audio CD)

Sounded good on first listen. But after warming up to it more, it sounds even better. I like every song. Who knew they were sitting on such great material? Songs are catchy, strong, Voivodian. I like Katorz fine, but this is much better. Guitar tone is nice and sharp. Production is smooth, yet powerful.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Happy, sad, happy for a while, sad again, but ultimately happy, November 20, 2009

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Mike C. - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Infini (MP3 Download)

The songs themselves are great, and this is the best Voivod effort of the 2000's. Angular, edgy, snarly, and spacey, all at once. Jasonic's bass is finally unleashed.

These are all happy things.

These are the last Voivod tracks with Piggy. They were pieced together from recordings that Piggy left behind, with the other band members recording them separately (none of the band was ever in the same room). The final days of a dying man, and his best friends' sadness, are captured in the music and the lyrics.

These are all sad things.

Whenever I listen to this, I oscillate between the happy and the sad. Mixed emotions, but not a mixed review: This one gets five stars.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A fine farewell to Piggy, September 14, 2009

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

This review is from: Infini (Audio CD)

I have maintained since I first heard the opening crashes of "Dimension: Hatross" that VoiVod were light years ahead of their time, primarily due to their futuristic image, Away's excellent artwork, and most of all, the sonic supernova that was the late Dennis D'Amour, aka Piggy, VoiVod's stellar guitarist.
So talented was Piggy's playing, mixing in the heaviness of thrash with advanced jazz chording, his secret weapon, that VoiVod played true industrial metal without samples, computers, or synthesizers, at least for the first several albums. Call it Terminator metal if you will. In a perfect world, VoiVod would be as huge as NIN instead of the beloved cult band they remain.
"Infini" was constructed around the last guitar licks Piggy stored on computer before his tragic death due to cancer. Being the troopers they are, the remaining members rallied and completed a fine farewell CD, probably the strongest since "The Outer Limits", an underrated masterwork if there ever was one. "God Phones" starts off with a bang. Piggy gives us some fine hooks this time around, better than the last CD "Katorz", not that there's anything wrong with that CD, either.
Jason Newsted, who was treated so miserably by Metallica, gets his due as he has since joining VoiVod three CDs ago. His prominent basslines propel the rhythm section and serve to show us that Hetfield and Co. were cutting off their noses to spite their spoiled faces.
The CD closer, "Volcano" is reminiscent of "Tornado" from the "Killing Technology" CD, showing a nod to their earlier ground breaking work.
The Vods are troopers, indeed. They are actually touring, and one hopes that perhaps a worthy guitarist will join up and allow these metal pioneers to keep exploring darkest space.