Annihilator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4BpAivHogg

all credit due to scott s, who gave me a heads up on this. rfi, because i only have this and apparently this is 7 albums in? more plz - or rather is there anything to avoid?

Oh shit, this is one of those bands that I only knew from seeing their t-shirts in metal mags as a kid.

yeah i think i posted some call for info on the rolling metal thread because there were a couple annihilator cds at my local goodwill and (no offense annihilator) this is not a album cover that makes me confident and scott s. gave me the go ahead, and its pretty fucking awesome.

AAAALICE IN HELL

hahahahaha YES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjIZXiQvRT4

just to be clear

this shit is just adorably canadian tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Fk8c8p7Iw

nice fellas all

My other point of reference for Annihilator is: upon first hearing "Enter Sandman" on the radio with no song I.D., one of my guesses was that it was Annihilator, who had come out with an album called "Never, Neverland" the previous year.

Jammed a few tracks from their Never, Neverland album this morning.

The opener was a pretty irritating song called "Welcome to the Fun Palace" that sounded like (and forgive the analogy here, but this is what was going on) a B-grade Bruce Dickenson imitator fronting a group of C-grade Megadeth imitators. Was the whole trope of "funhouse/carnival as house of horrors/analogy for mental imbalance" as overused in the late 80s as it is today? Because boy, there are few things as trite.

The next two songs were pretty decent, chugging thrash - for some reason the guitar playing took a huge leap in quality over Fun Palace. Track 4 is called Stonewall, which I had sort of been hoping meant that they were gay, but looking up the lyrics just it seems to be about ecological destruction, which is actually one of my favorite lyrical themes if done right, but "Stonewall"? Anyway, I'll be interested to listen to the rest of the album later.