Recorded 2015–2016 Release date 6 May 2016 | Length 73:21 Genre Prog rock | |
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Released May 6, 2016 (2016-05-06) Studio Panther Pro Audio, Villain Recordings Similar Vektor albums, Black metal albums | ||
Vektor terminal redux full album
Terminal Redux is the third album by the American technical thrash metal band Vektor, released on May 6, 2016. It is the band's first album released on Earache Records. The album's lyrics are a sci-fi story about an astronaut finding the key to immortality and using it to gain vast political and financial power, but eventually experiencing an existential crisis as a result.
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- Vektor terminal redux full album
- Vektor terminal redux album review
- Production and release
- Reception
- Vektor
- Additional personnel
- Songs
- References
Vektor terminal redux album review
Production and release
Vektor first played the song "Ultimate Artificer" live in August 2014, after roughly a year of writing new material. The band spent much of 2015 in the studio, recording the album. In November of that year, the band announced that their upcoming album would be entitled Terminal Redux, and released a studio version of "Ultimate Artificer". In February 2016, the band revealed the album's final release date, artwork, and track listing.
Reception
Terminal Redux received positive reviews from professional critics. Dom Lawson of Metal Hammer magazine placed the album 8th in his list of the top 10 metal albums of 2016. Stereogum list the album 20th on their list of the best 40 metal albums of 2016.
Vektor
Additional personnel
Songs
1Charging the Void9:12
2Cygnus Terminal8:15
3LCD (Liquid Crystal Disease)7:33