Customer Reviews

Infini

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4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(1)
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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.

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.

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.

Voivod sounds like they have done their homework. Jason Newstead ("Jasonic")plays the bass on this release. unlike Metallica, which gave his bass playing the cold shoulder, Voivod lets his bass playing shine. this release sounds heavy, and from what I was told, is their final one. it is too bad that Denis D'Amour ("Piggy") died, because he was very talented. Denis' guitar playing is very precise, which brings to mind the band Death, which also incorporated jazz into their metal as well.
this album is a fitting tribute to Piggy. RIP Piggy.

Inifini is a real grower. You all know the story behind the tracks, so what does it sound like? Well, it's rather long and gives us a little of everything you know and love about this band. Production is sharp and Piggy's guitar tone is present in spades. Infini is similar to Katorz, but stronger.
Infini would benefit from being edited down to a single album. There are a few tracks that tend to drag the album down. No clunker tracks, but a few too many fine-but-not-great tracks.
This record makes me excited to hear what comes next for this band, especially now that Blacky is back in the band. His blower bass has been absent for far too long.

Infini is pressed on some sweet grey wax (double lp with gatefold and download code). Let's hope they carry on.

I remember reading that Piggy was ill sometime ago and then hearing that he had indeed passes away from cancer. My first thoughts were that that was to bad! After picked up Katorz thinking that this was indeed the last Voivod release, I was surprised to see this release come about? However after reading how it came about I was happy that it did and looked forward to checking it out.

Well after many spins, it's a much better release all around than Katorz was. Don't get me wrong, I liked Katorz for the most part, but it did take quite a few listens for me to finally warm up to it. Overall thought looking back, it was an average listen nothing more. This new release is very good, very good indeed. It's catchy, riffy, fast, slow and fantastic. Piggy if the guitar tracks were indeed taken from your computer and then put together by the rest of the band, my friend Jason and the boys did you justice and you would have been proud of the final outcome. This cd does indeed deliver the goods and it's a great farewell gift to your fans.

Thanks and R.I.P.

Reported to possibly be the last album released under the Voivod moniker, Infini Clocks in at around an hours worth of music that is a great finish to the trifecta of albums that have been released with the Snake, Piggy, Jasonic, and Away line up. Despite his death and the files coming from a laptop digital recording, Denis D'amour's (Piggy's) tracks sound fresh and crisp and mixed in well with the music. Overall, strong tracks are God Phones, Global Warning, Krap Radio, and Deathproof. All of these take on subjects of religion, pop culture, and the envioronment, subjects voivod have not shyed away from in the past, and still do not today. Definately could fit in right thier catalogue after the nothingface album. A must have for a fan of voivod, and a good introduction for those not familiar.

it's considered to speak ill of the dead so lets say since the tracks are truly demo recordings this cd is not thier best but at least they did something with the music and not trash these songs.I think its better than katzors cd.

this has all the signs of possibly could have been nothing face but this was not to be,considering piggy's death.all the elements are there dennis's axe attack is back to classic voivodian guitar chords.snake and away are in good form and jason has his bass tunes in to voivod giving them the best bass playing since blacky left.this cd should have come out after viovods -st cd because i personally didn't like katzor very much at all(it was so far from typical voivod it was alien musically)

THIS SEAMS TO BE LACKING THE NORMAL VOI-VODIAN EDGE,I KNOW PIGGY IS GONE AND THESE ARE SOND THAT WERE PUT TOGETHER FROM HIS TAPES AND THE BAND WRITING AROUND HIS PARTS THIS SEAMS BETTER THAN KATOR BUT IT'S JUST NOT GREAT,VOI-VOD WAS GREAT LIKE NOTHING FACE,DEMENTION HATROS,KILLING TECHNOLOGY,OUTER LIMITS WAS GREAT IN ITS OWN WAY,EVEN ANGEL RAT NO NOT GOOD TO ME.