Year : 1989
Style : Thrash Metal
Country : Canada
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans + Video
Size : 109 mb
Bio:
Annihilator is a Canadian thrash metal band founded in 1984 by guitarist Jeff Waters and vocalist John Bates. They are the highest-selling Canadian thrash metal group in history, having sold more than three million albums worldwide,although most of their sales have been generated outside the band's home country. Along with Sacrifice, Voivod and Razor, Annihilator is credited as one of the "Big 4" of Canadian thrash metal.They are also considered to be part of the second wave of thrash metal bands from the late 1980s and early 1990s, along with Sepultura, Sacred Reich, Flotsam and Jetsam and Dark Angel as well as Bay Area thrash metal acts Testament, Forbidden, Death Angel and Vio-lence.Since its inception, Annihilator has released sixteen studio albums and has undergone many line-up changes. Waters is the only remaining original member left in the band, and usually assembles touring or session musicians to perform with him. Annihilator's first two studio albums—Alice in Hell (1989) and Never, Neverland (1990)—are considered to be influential Canadian heavy metal records.[6] Many of their later albums—including their third, and only major-label, album Set the World on Fire (1993)—also received high praise from critics, and enjoyed some success in Europe and Japan.Their recent studio album, Ballistic, Sadistic, will be released on January 24, 2020.
Album:
Alice in Hell is the debut studio album by Canadian thrash metal band Annihilator, released on April 17, 1989 through Roadrunner Records. This was the only Annihilator album for ten years to feature Randy Rampage on vocals, until he returned for their seventh studio album Criteria for a Black Widow (1999).Although the album's insert lists five members, Annihilator was a three-piece (Randy Rampage, Jeff Waters and Ray Hartmann) at the time of its recording in 1988. In addition to guitar, Waters provides bass and backing vocals on the album, produced it and wrote all the songs, with the exception of "Crystal Ann". Although Anthony Brian Greenham and Wayne Darley are noted on the album's insert as playing guitar and bass respectively, this was a mistake and they did not join Annihilator until after Alice in Hell was finished; Darley does, however, provide backing vocals on the album. Waters has explained in interviews the reason Greenham and Darley were listed in the credits was at the behest of Roadrunner.Alice in Hell was the first of six Annihilator albums to feature songwriting contributions from former singer John Bates, who was credited as the (co-)writer of the songs "Alison Hell", "W.T.Y.D.", "Burns Like a Buzzsaw Blade" and "Human Insecticide". Bates also co-wrote some songs on Never, Neverland (1990), King of the Kill (1994), Refresh the Demon (1996), Remains (1997) and Criteria for a Black Widow (1999).To promote Alice in Hell, Annihilator supported Onslaught internationally on their In Search of Sanity tour, and Testament (along with Wrathchild America) in the United States on their Practice What You Preach tour.After the tour was over, the band began preparations for their next album Never, Neverland.The title track "Alison Hell" was released as part of a DLC package for Rocksmith on April 16, 2019.The album was re-released twice: 1998 with three demo tracks as bonus tracks and again on September 9, 2003, in a two-disc compilation set along with Never, Neverland, entitled Two from the Vault. One of the demo tracks, "Powerdrain", serves as the base of the song "Sonic Homicide" on Annihilator's 1999 album Criteria for a Black Widow.Alice in Hell has received mostly positive reviews. AllMusic's Eduardo Rivadavia stated that "Annihilator's brand of technical, thinking man's thrash metal garnered many fans with this fine debut, arguably the best release of the band's career."Adam McCann of Metal Digest referred to Alice in Hell as "a real classic thrash metal album", and wrote, "For a debut album, Annihilator blasted it out of the park, the Canadian band hit the ground running with one of thrash metal's best albums, tracks such as 'Human Insecticide', 'W.T.Y.D. (Welcome to Your Death)' and 'Alison Hell' in particular still stand tall today as thrash metal anthems as Jeff Waters demonstrated his prowess on guitar backed up by the indomitable vocals of the late Randy Rampage which drove Alice in Hell into MTV's heavy rotation."
Line Up:
Randy Rampage - Lead Vocal (R.I.P. 2018)
Jeff Waters - Guitars, Bass (1984-present), Vocals (1994-1996, 2015-present) - See also: ex-Savatage (live), ex-Black Christmas
Anthony Brian Greenham - Guitars
Wayne Darley - Bass
Ray Hartmann - Drums
+ Backing Vocals – Dennis Dubeau, Paul Malek, Petra "Nelly" Wilson, Rolly Markwort
Production:
Recorded At – Fiasco Bros. Studios
Mixed At – Fiasco Bros. Studios
Mastered At – Frankford/Wayne Mastering Labs
Artwork, Concept By, Cover – Feet And Jeff
Artwork, Cover – Len Rooney Creative
Design – Jeff Faville
Engineer – Dan "Dan The Engineer Man Morrow, Frank D'Onofrio, Paul Blake
Executive-Producer – Monte Conner
Lyrics By – Jody Weil (tracks: 4, 5), John Bates (tracks: 2, 3, 5, 9)
Management – T K O Management
Mastered By – Chris Gehringer
Tracklist:
01. Crystal Ann 01:41 instrumental
02. Alison Hell 05:01
03. W.T.Y.D. 03:56
04. Wicked Mystic 03:37
05. Burns like a Buzzsaw Blade 03:33
06. Word Salad 05:49
07. Schizos (Are Never Alone) Parts I & II 04:32
08. Ligeia 04:47
09. Human Insecticide 04:50
+ Video "Alison Hell" (Official Video)
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