ANNIHILATOR - KING OF THE KILL
TWO STEPS BACK, ONE STEP FORWARD.
Annihilator started out as a thrash metal band, but when they released their third album (Set the world on fire) ventured towards more commercial sounding metal. Now on their fourth album they have taken a small step back towards a somewhat thrashier sound.
This is also the first time that Annihilator no longer is a band but a solo-project. Jeff Waters sings, he handles the bass and all guitars on this record. Everything besides the drums that are left for Randy Black.
Let's start with the positives here. This is a very varied albums with no songs that sound alike, King of the kill and Second to None are up-tempo thrashers. In the Blood on the other hand sounds almost like an 80's power ballad. I also like the instrumental Catch the wind, which is a melodic and mellow song that reminds me of guitar shredder Eric Johnson's work. Perhaps not metal but a well constructed instrumental. The mid-tempo song "Bad Child" is also fun.
King of the Kill is a good album, but there are too few speedy numbers on this disc. King of the kill is built around Jeff Waters guitar play, wonderful at times, but not always that hard or fast.
King of the Kill is as I see it their last good album before totally whimping out and releasing all those mechanical modern groove metal albums.
I would say that King of the Kill sits somewhere between Alice in Hell and Set the World on Fire in heavieness. This was the first Annihilator album that I bought and I played it quite a bit back in the day so I like it a bit for nostalgia more so than the actual quality of the record. But if you are looking for more Annihilator than the first two albums, King of the Kill is a good place to start.
Rating:
| INFO |
Label: Music For Nations Year: 1994 Country: Canada Duration: 49:34 Tracks: 13 Genre: Thrash/Heavy Reviewer: Ruthless Rating: 3.5/5 | ||
| TRACKS | LINEUP | |
| Jeff Waters - Guitars, Bass & Vocals Randy Black - Drums |
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