Annihilator-How would you rate their albums?

I'm keen to get some Annihilator on vinyl. I use to really love them I have Never Neverland & Alice already on vinyl. But how would you rate their newer stuff from say 2000 onwards?

Waking The Fury and Carnival Diablos are must haves in my book. Joe Comeau from Liege Lord is on Vox and just tears it up. After that Dave Padden steps in on the mic and adds a more modern flavor. It's more hit and miss though I think Schizo Deluxe is good. Still trying to decide on the newest album.

TheNazgul wrote:

Waking The Fury and Carnival Diablos are must haves in my book. Joe Comeau from Liege Lord is on Vox and just tears it up. After that Dave Padden steps in on the mic and adds a more modern flavor. It's more hit and miss though I think Schizo Deluxe is good. Still trying to decide on the newest album.

I agree. I also love the live album he did with them.

This is my opinion about ANNIHILATOR albums since 2000:
CARNIVAL DIABLOS. A good album, some cool songs, a 7.
WAKING THE FURY. Super album, a 8,5
ALL FOR YOU. Very bad record, a 4.
SCHIZO DELUX. Not bad, some okay songs but nothing special. A 5.
METAL. don have this cd.
ANNIHILATOR. Killer new album, best since WAKING THE FURY(but dont forget i dont have METAL). Great songs, great singer (reminds me of the singer on SET THE WORLD ON FIRE).

CARNIVAL DIABLOS = I have this but have listened the least, I was not blowen away 5
WAKING THE FURY. Excellent album 8.5
ALL FOR YOU. Everyone hates this album, one of my favorites 9
SCHIZO DELUX. Some songs are great on here some are ehh 6.5
METAL. Some good songs some weird songs for Annihilator to be doing, special guests on this album adjust the style of some songs 4
ANNIHILATOR excellent album 9

Carnival Diablos is my favourite. Groovy thrash metal. Great guitars. Comeau is excellent. 10/10.

Waking the Fury is awesome too. Similar in style, lots of catchy songs. 9/10

And if you liked those two, Double Live Annihilation is also a must. A great sounding live album heavy on the Diablos/Fury album tracks.

Anything after that and I have trouble with the vocalist too much to assess properly. But Metal at least was pretty terrible.

Listened to most of the Annihilator catalog on my drive to Colorado last week. And I am still under the opinion that Schizo Deluxe is their best. Although "Rage Absolute" is my fav song, the rest of All For You is average. And I still can't listen to most of Never, Neverland. Just too, ummm, Un-
Annihilator-ish to me.

I really like Alice In Hell and Never,Neverland.Carnival Diablos was my favorite at one time.Metal is absolute poop in my opinion.The New one sounds killer,I need to pick it up still.

Something with these guys never quite clicked with me. The first 3 albums are ok, but after that, I sorta lost interest. I think the lack of consistancy with lead singers put me off. I sold of most of their mid-period-Jeff Waters-only albums.

The last album I have by them is Carnival Diablous. Been awhile since I've played it (or any Annihilator for that matter) though.

The first two albums are the best!

Jeff Waters is awesome! The singers are always the weak link...

TZ - Guess who I get to see Saturday night [hint: look at your avatar]!!! Psyched!!

CARNIVAL DIABLOS = Lame
WAKING THE FURY = Decent
ALL FOR YOU = Sucks
SCHIZO DELUX = Decent
METAL = Decent
ANNIHILATOR = Decent

I haven't been a big Annihilator fan at all. The 1st album is the only one I thing is mindblowing. Everything else has been decent or terrible since then.

Thanks for your input guys. I ended up getting most of them on vinyl anyway I really like the new one Annihilator it smokes

UNCLE SAXON wrote:

TZ - Guess who I get to see Saturday night [hint: look at your avatar]!!! Psyched!!

I'm PISSED!

Where are they playing?

I guess it is tonight. Thought it was tomorrow.

UNCLE SAXON wrote:

I guess it is tonight. Thought it was tomorrow.

I would like to see them.

UNCLE SAXON wrote:

I guess it is tonight. Thought it was tomorrow.

Is that Beatallica in the opening act slot? Damn. I'd love to see this gig.

Interesting post. I can not rate all the albums because I have only listened some of them, the first three, but anyway, here you have how Jeff Waters rated the albums in the last number of Hellspawn Zine ( from Spain):

Alice In Hell - 9/10
Never, Neverland 10/10
Set The World On Fire 8/10
King Of The Kill 9/10
Refresh The Demon 7,5/10
Remains 5/10
Criteria For A Black Widow 7,9/10
Carnival Diablos 7,5 /10
Waking The Fury 7/10
All For You 7/10
Schizo Deluxe 9,5/10
Metal 6,9/10

Fat Freddy wrote:

UNCLE SAXON wrote:

I guess it is tonight. Thought it was tomorrow.

Is that Beatallica in the opening act slot? Damn. I'd love to see this gig.

DT and Beatallica? Yea, that's a pretty sweet gig. I didn't know DT was back together again. Jason McMaster's keeping himself busy. Good for them.

'Pickle Park'. Tee-hee.

Jeff scored Remains to high, other then that he's pretty honest with his stuff.

I thought Metal was...an interesting record, then I put it away and never listened to it again. I really kind of like All For You (but some of that might have been it was a .50 bin find). I'll share the love for Double Annihilation Live. I'm not a big live album fan but that one kills.

king of the kill is awesome

maybe it's my age but i just don't get the alice in hell cd.

voxis wrote:

maybe it's my age but i just don't get the alice in hell cd.

Anyone listening to metal at age 109 will have an occasional speed bump in the road.

voxis wrote:

king of the kill is awesome.

I think it's one of the band's more underrated albums, as well as Refresh the Demon.

There really isn't an Annihilator CD I dislike.

The only Annihilator album I own is 'Alice In Hell' on vinyl and I have not spun that album in years, I should dust off and give it a spin.