I remember first getting this on cassette? (i think my turntable at the time was broken) ...& I must've listened to it at least 50 times that night. Totally blew me away, but I also remember finding it harder to get into than 'Rrroooaaarrr' and 'War & Pain' at the time, but then saw the genious shine through in every aspect & realized this was a band that had just re-invented itself & that's what I have always loved about Voivod and this album in particular!
Bit like Madonna I guess???
Dimension Hatross is supreme as well, but just not as "noisy, manic & mechanical" as KT!
For me Hatross is the intermediate record between eariler savagery and the spaceprogthrash that is Nothingface, which I find brilliant and one of my favourite records ever, so it sounds a bit... I'd say undeveloped.
Negatron is easily their weakest album. The production has a bit too much of a Pantera sound,and even the riffs are a bit too "modern" metal sounding...but at the end of the day it is still Voivod!
I seem to be the most complete VoiVod fan. I even like Negatron, Phobos and VoiVod. Each album they've made stands on it own and it makes no sense to compare them. Dimension could be viewed a transitional album, yet the chords used there you cannot hear anywhere else in Metal and beyond. As for "modern" influences on Negatron, the songwriting, the structures and tritoni transcend them completely.
transcend them completely. 
