ANNIHILATOR - METAL
METAL? THAT'S FALSE ADVERTISING!
On Annihilator's twelfth studio album Metal Jeff Waters gathered many of his favourite musicians to do collaborative album. Unfortunately he is a big fan of many rather terrible modern metal bands such as Trivium, The Haunted, In Flames, Lamb of God, Children of Bodom, Arch Enemy and Nevermore. But on the other hand managed to getsome real legends in here too like Steve 'Lips' Kudlow from Anvil and Dan Beehler and Allan James Johnson from Exciter.
That's the Canadian metal royalty right there. Unfortunately the Exciter guys only came in to do a rendition of Heavy Metal Maniac, plus it's only a bonus track on the Japanese edition of this album. Kind of sad when that was the best track on the album.
Repetition seems to be the key here. playing the same riffs over and over again. For me that's just lazy and boring, especially when your sound is so mechanical, then you really need more variation to keep it interesting. Plus the lyrics are really really dumb.
That also sums up my feelings towards this album that claims to be metal. If this is metal, then I don't know if I like metal at all. haha The mallcore vocals by Dave Padden combined with nu-metal riffs is not alright for a band that once was considered to be the biggest talents out there. This album is so boring and bad that I can promise that I will not listen to this crap ever again.
For me Annihilator might as well throw in the towel, They haven't released anything decent in almost 20 years now. To be honest I can't even think of a good song that the band has recorded since 1994's King of the Kill. Annihilator truly are the Nickleback of metal, popular but nobody in their right mind likes them. Metal is actually one of the worst album's that Annihilator has produced. It's like Foo Fighters but with some extra distortion and even shittier production. This is utter garbage!
Rating:
| INFO |
Label: Steamhammer Year: 2007 Country: Canada Duration: 54:58 Tracks: 10 Genre: Nu Metal/Groove Reviewer: Ruthless Rating: 0/5 | ||
| TRACKS | LINEUP | |
| Jeff Waters - Guitar & Bass Dave Padden - Vocals & Guitar Mike Mangini - Drums |
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