Annihilator

   
Artist: Annihilator

   Genre(s): 
Metal: Thrash
   Metal
   Metal: Heavy
   Metal: Death,Black
   

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Discography:


   
 Metal

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 10


   
 All For You

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 9


   
 Double Live Annihilation (CD 1)

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 8


   
 Waking The Fury

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 13


   
 Waiking The Fury

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 12


   
 Carnival Diablos

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 11


   
 Live In Moscow

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 13


   
 Criteria for a Black Widow

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 10


   
 Remains

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 11


   
 In Command

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 14


   
 King Of The Kill

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 16


   
 Bag Of Tricks

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 16


   
 Set The World On Fire

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 10


   
 Never, Neverland

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 10


   
 Alice In Hell

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 9


   
 The One

   Year:    
Tracks: 4

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Canadian thrashers Annihilator are the lifework of guitar player Jeff Waters, world Health Organization founded the set in his aboriginal Vancouver in 1984 -- just as the speed metal revolution was getting underway further to the south in the San Francisco Bay Area. Due in big part to this geographical isolation, Annihilator as a band phased in and out of world over the next few years, with only Waters as a unvarying factor, just when the impelled guitarist's homemade demos ultimately made it into the custody of Roadrunner Records, the band's career was ready to begin.


Released to positively wild public and critical herald at the altitude of the thrash metallic element boom, Annihilator's 1989 debut, Alice in Hell, was an unqualified crow and epitomized the state of the art in terms of thought man's thrash about metal, simply it was hardly a band exertion. Indeed, though they are depicted on the sleeve alongside Waters (wHO wrote, produced, and played guitar and bass part on the intact record album), singer Randy Rampage (at one time bassist with legendary Vancouver hardcore ring D.O.A.), drummer Ray Hartmann, bassist Wayne Darley, and second guitarist Anthony Greenham were small more than chartered guns. Not surprisingly, both Rampage and Greenham were done for by the release of the next year's Never, Neverland (replaced by the equally implausibly named Coburn Pharr and Dave Scott Davis, severally), the beginning of a revolving door policy that would upgrade Annihilator's musician dollar volume to Spinal Tap heights.


In whatsoever case, though non quite a as inspired as its predecessor, Never, Neverland did nice business and the band's in style lineup capitalized by touring unrelentingly behind it. A three-year delay and more lineup changes preceded 1993's Set the World on Fire, even so, and the album's lurid move to adopt more traditional metallic element and commercial-grade hard sway sounds wound up alienating most of Annihilator's fans, sending their popularity into a spin. Roadrunner issued 1994's Purse of Tricks digest and promptly dropped the band, which promptly resurfaced with a new carry on and several albums on Music for Nations (1994's Power of the Kill, 1996's Review the Demon, 1997's Remains) only never over again enjoyed anything similar to their original success -- despite Waters' retreat to thrashier terrain. Released in 1999, Criteria for a Black Widow reunited the guitar player with both Roadrunner and erstwhile singer Rampage, just subsequent albums like 2001's Carnival Diablos, 2003's Waking the Fury, and 2004's All for You pronounced a return to Annihilator's unpredictable musical about-faces and personal musical chairs.