Annihilator

Guests and song list for the "Metal" album!!!

Clow Parade (feat Jeff Loomis, Nevermore)
Couple Suicide (feat Danko Jones and Angela Gossow, Arch Enemy)
Army of One (feat Lips (Anvil)
Downright Dominate (feat Alexi Laiho, Children of Bodom)
Smothered (feat Anders Bjorler, The Haunted)
Operation Annihilation (fear Michael Amott, Arch Enemy)
Haungted (fear Jesper Stromblad, In Flames)
Kicked (feat Corey Beaulieu, Trivium)
Detonation (feat Jacob Lynam)
Chasing the High (feat William Adler, Lamb of God)

I am not that thrilled :/

Whilst I find it odd that Jeff needs so many guest appeareances, a lot of those are great choices like Laiho, Gossow and Amott.

more guests than a Mariah Carey album

I could care less about the guests. Here's hoping the music is good.

i think it'll be quite interesting....

I think Loomis was a great choice... I think he will have a lot to contribute on that particular track. And I too just want the music to be good.... but I do think it's odd that Jeff Waters needs so many guests just for one album.

ultmetal wrote:

I could care less about the guests. Here's hoping the music is good.

\m/

I would love it to be good, but judging by how much I hated Schizo Deluxe (actually most of their material from after Never Neverland), I doubt I can enjoy this, especially with crappy guest musicians like most of those (with some obvious exceptions like Jeff Loomis and Lips).

i thought Schitzo Deluxe was great musicly. the lyrics were dumb as hell though. vocals weren't that strong either. will enjoy hearing Angela sing along though.

I hope not all of them are singing....

TheHellion wrote:

I would love it to be good, but judging by how much I hated Schizo Deluxe (actually most of their material from after Never Neverland), I doubt I can enjoy this, especially with crappy guest musicians like most of those (with some obvious exceptions like Jeff Loomis and Lips).

I never heard Schizo Deluxe but I didn't like ALL FOR YOU much so I skipped SCHIZO on purpose. I can't stand the new singer. I've loved most of the other Annihilator albums/vocalists (even Aaron Randall!) but Dave Padden's vox on ALL FOR YOU were totally unlistenable and ruined the entire album for me (which sucked cuz musically that album was very solid.) It figures that Waters changes vocalists more often than he changes his socks (or so it would seem) but now that there's a guy I absolutely HATE behind the microphone, he's now on his third album with them...

I liked Schizo Deluxe quite a bit. However, I HATE the annoying scream at the end of Warbird.

Dave Padden's vocals improved quite a bit on Schizo. He sounds less 'core' now, and a bit more like a thrash vocalist.

I REALLY liked Schizo Deluxe. Much more thrash sounding than All For You (though I did like All For You as well).

I agree with ya ult, that scream at the end of Warbid was a bit......excessive.

The vocals on the last album I can handle but is it just me or is the music becoming more and more of the same ?, you'd know an Annihilator tune anywhere to me they are becoming like Dragonforce.

I will buy the new CD and give it a chance, but I aint holding much hope for it going by the list of guests above, what next ? I'd like to see an instrumental solo CD by Jeff though.

This is what's next!

http://www.annihilatormetal.com//schizo_asylum/album_pic.php?pic_id=405

ha ha, it beats the cover of Remains anyway.

That was GREAT!

I love Schizo and All For You. Waking the fury not so much... The buzzy guitar tone really drives me nuts. The music is great but the production overall sucks. I still don't have Alice or Never but I really need to get them.

Wow! I'm an idiot. I've been going through all my cd's to put them on my iPod so I have a giant stack of cd's next to my computer. Well I was just looking through it and I found the double disc version of Alice/Never and I totally forgot that I had it. A while back I went crazy and bought a ton of cd's. Well, I still haven't listened to all of them... I would have totally gone out and re-bought these. LOL!

I'm sure you'll dig Alice/Never MetaLHoliC. Give us a review once you get the chance to check 'em out.

I have to run some errands here in a few so I'll pop it in in the car and let ya know! I'm sure I'll love it, I dig everything I have by them.

I only have "Alice In Hell" and "Never, Neverland" andI dig them both alot....

I'm listening to "Refresh The Demon" right now.

i have seen them live and the new stuff was not too bad although the sound was crap