Killing Technology

{{Infobox album

| name = Killing Technology

| type = studio

| artist = Voivod

| cover = Killing_Technology.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{Start date|1987|4|2}}

| recorded = November 27 – December 14, 1986

| venue =

| studio = Music Lab, West Berlin, Germany

| genre = {{hlist|Thrash metal|progressive metal}}

| length = 39:49
47:43 (with bonus tracks)

| label = Cobra (Canada)
Combat/Noise (US)
Noise International (rest of the world)

| producer = Voivod & Harris Johns

| prev_title = Rrröööaaarrr

| prev_year = 1986

| next_title = Dimension Hatröss

| next_year = 1988

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/killing-technology-mw0000192814 |title=Voivod - Killing Technology review |last=Prato |first=Greg |work=AllMusic |publisher=All Media Network |accessdate=2017-07-14 }}

| rev2 = Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal

| rev2Score = 7/10{{cite book | last1 = Popoff | first1 = Martin | authorlink1 = Martin Popoff | title = The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties | publisher = Collector's Guide Publishing | date = 1 November 2005 | location = Burlington, Ontario, Canada | isbn = 978-1894959315 | page= 401}}

| rev3 = Rock Hard

| rev3Score = 8.0/10{{cite magazine |title=Review Album: Voivod - Killing Technology |magazine=Rock Hard |year=1987 |last=Stratmann |first=Holger |issue=20 |url=https://www.rockhard.de/megazine/reviewarchiv/review-anzeigen/7724-killing-technology.html |accessdate=14 July 2017 |language=German}}

|rev4 = Sputnikmusic

|rev4score = 5.0/5{{cite web |url=https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/42577/Voivod-Killing-Technology/ |title=Voivod - Killing Technology |website=Sputnikmusic |date=24 March 2011 |accessdate=2017-07-13 }}

| noprose = yes

}}

Killing Technology is the third studio album by Canadian heavy metal band Voivod. It was released in 1987 on Noise Records and was the first to combine elements of progressive rock in the band's thrash metal sound. According to interviews contemporary to the release of Killing Technology, by 1986 Voivod were more influenced by hardcore punk and crossover bands than by other metal bands, with only Kreator and Motörhead still appreciated by all band members.{{Citation needed|date=August 2009}} Estimated sales are more than 60,000 copies worldwide.

A music video was made for the song "Ravenous Medicine".

The cassette and CD edition includes the two tracks from the Too Scared to Scream / Cockroaches single.