ANNIHILATOR - SET THE WORLD ON FIRE
BUILDING TOWERS OF CHEESE.
I'm still dumbfounded when I go back listening to this record. It's such a weird record. Maybe it's because that it's only Jeff Waters remaining in the band since their 1989 debut. Sure Wayne Darley is still here but he was just adding backing vocals to Alice in Hell and he would soon leave the band due to not being able to enter Japan when the band went there to tour.
Set the World on Fire is a much more mainstream sounding record than the previous two. You can hear flair of hair metal and even some rather funky Faith No More-sounding stuff.
There's a lot of acoustic arrangements and slow and dreary ballads. Just towers of cheese built on their old legacy. Maybe inspired a bit by Metallica and Megadeth that had success with their ballads.
Some songs are listenable, the intro track sounds stupid even if it is some sort of a thrash song. The commercial Knight jumps queen has a few great riffs and No Zone are enjoyable. Phoenix Rising and Snake in the Grass are absolutely intolerable though, it sounds more like they should have been on a Bon Jovi album than a thrash album and those songs makes me want to throw this album out the window.
Annihilator has slowed down considerably and this has more in common with the cheesy late eighties hair bands than thrash. Compared to their earlier albums this one isn't even deserved to be named in the same sentence as the "Alice in hell" and "Never, Neverland". By the way Niel Goldberg and drummer Mike Mangini are new members of Annihilator. But I don't think they got so much to say or do when Jeff Waters decided to sell-out and chase the mainstream dream. Just Don't mind this album.
Rating:
| INFO |
Label: Epic Records Year: 1993 Country: Canada Duration: 38:56 Tracks: 10 Genre: Thrash/Rock Reviewer: Ruthless Rating: 2/5 | ||
| TRACKS | LINEUP | |
| Jeff Waters - Guitars & Bass Aaron Randall - Vocals Neil Goldberg - Guitars Wayne Darley - Bass Mike Mangini - Drums |
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