ANNIHILATOR - ANNIHILATOR
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Annihilator's 13th studio album was self-titled and it came out in 2010.
My first impressions of this record is that it has a better production than their last handful of albums, it actually sounds like a metal album now and not just like they lended Lars Ulrichs garbage cans and Cher's auto-tune.
Still it's a rather modern sounding album. Dave Padden has never been a favourite of mine even though his voice at times sounds similar to Jeff Waters. Padden has a slightly more aggressive vocal style at times, His vocals are really annoying when he goes into these core-scream sections. His voice is also very muffled at times which is a curse of modern metal.
Annihilator seems to have taken everything a notch more serious here and listened to the critique that they have received lately. I must admit I haven't followed Annihilator closely since I haven't liked any of the albums that they've put out during the last 15 years or so. But I have of course listened to each and every of their albums.
I guess we have to accept that the sound of Annihilator early albums can't be recreated in this modern day with all these digital and lifeless ways of producing an album. But it sounds a bit better this time. Less groove and a little more thrash this time around. I also must mention that I dislike the artwork it looks more like a modern day horror movie cover or something. Plus the fact that they decided to ditch their red logo for this one, it's almost unforgiveable. But on the other hand this doesn't sound like Annihilator of old so they might as well change the name and the logo. haha
Their self-titled might be a tiny step in the right direction, but I also think this is far from good. But maybe this is their best since 1999's Criteria For a Black Widow.
Rating:
| INFO |
Label: Earache Year: 2010 Country: Canada Duration: 48:46 Tracks: 10 Genre: Groove Metal Reviewer: Ruthless Rating: 1/5 | ||
| TRACKS | LINEUP | |
| Jeff Waters - Guitar & Bass Dave Padden - Vocals & Guitar Ryan Ahoff - Drums |
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