ANNIHILATOR - ALL FOR YOU

ALL FOR NICKLEBACK.

Annihilator is once again back with a new album and of course with a new lineup as well. The bands founding member Jeff Waters has recruited drummer Mike Mangini and vocalist Dave Padden for this release. The album is such a strange creation that I don't know where to start.

Well, lets go with the lyrics, Dave Padden's vocals. Damn they are seriously bad. Half of the time he sounds like that Chad Kroeger guy from Nickleback and the other half he sounds like one of those modern core shriekers.

Bands that are doing that are in general teens of today with emo haircuts who play lousy music and just screams into the mic. You know those guys with Justin Bieber haircuts, tattooed sleeves and big plug piercings in their ears, while they rap or scream into the mic. Yeah, the worst type of posers on the planet.

Annihilator has embraced that poser shit for a long time now.

There are some serious System of a Down-vibes going on here and it's just embarassing.

As always it's Jeff Waters technical guitar play that is in the forefront of Annihilator's sound. When Annihilator debuted they were a sensation and their first two albums was incredible and they were hailed as the next big thing in thrash. But the implementation of modern ideas has forever changed the band for the worse.

I no longer buy their albums because they've disappointed me for a decade straight now and I'm done with these posers. Sure Jeff can still play but it doesn't even matter when the production is garbage, the vocalist terrible and everything sounding so fake and plastic. I guess they looked at System of a Down and saw that they were popular so without any integrity at all or care for their fanbase they jumped on the next train to poserville. It's time to forget about Annihilator just like we did with Metallica, they sold their souls, not to Rock 'n' Roll but to an industry that don't give a shit about them.

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