ANNIHILATOR - WAKING THE FURY
WHO ARE THESE POSERS AND WHAT HAPPENED TO ANNIHILATOR?
If you want metal with generic progammed drums and a production as dead as your great great grandma. Add vocals that are so processed it makes your microwaved corndogs seem natural, look no further. Here's the metal version of soggy microwaved corndogs.
This album contains one of the worst sounding drums I've heard. It's close to Lars Ulrichs performance on St. Anger. It's just terrible, no way a human played this. It sounds like someone sat with and downloaded the most generic drum loops they could find. Randy Black is the bands drummer but there's no way that this ain't electronic drums.
This album was supposed to be so fast and heavy but when it's produced like this someone needs to be fired and never let near a studio again. It's actually produced by Jeff Waters himself and damn, does this guy need a real producer because this sounds like some bad techno band from the 90's. Faster! Harder! Scooter! Annihilator!
I never understood why Jeff who is such an incredible guitar player fell into these dumb traps, playing nu metal, playing sappy ballads, following whatever was trendy in the so called metal community. Great artists don't follow trends, they create them.
So this is just sad how they fell from grace.
I've read favourable reviews for this album like it was some type of Painkiller for the 21th century and that's a big fat lie or someone needs to clean their ears from wax. Sure it's a fast album but it's so mechanical and dead that you might as well watch a metronome at 150 bpm instead. It might be a fast album but who cares when the vocals sounds like Cher on crack with a buzzsaw tuned to a metronome ticking in the background. Jeff Waters produced this album and he must have been listening to a lot of new metal crap that is popular right now. It saddens me to see such a good songwriter and musician to produce and turn his own albums into this terrible mess. That my friends, awakens my fury.
Rating:
| INFO |
Label: Steamhammer Year: 2002 Country: Canada Duration: 49:00 Tracks: 10 Genre: Nu Metal/Groove Reviewer: Ruthless Rating: 0.5/5 | ||
| TRACKS | LINEUP | |
| Jeff Waters - Guitar & Bass Joe Comeau - Vocals Randy Black - Drums |
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