ANNIHILATOR — King of the Kill (review)

ANNIHILATOR — King of the Kill album cover Album · 1994 · Thrash Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
2.5/5 ·
1967/ 1976
I don't know what occurred to Jeff Waters: Why play guitar and bass, sing and produce and have only one other musician involved in this album (Randy Black, drums)...? All this produces a typical album halfway between Thrash, Power and Prog Metal. Definitely dry and impervious to outside ideas, completely devoted to buy the Hard Rock closest genres fans but at the same time devoted to cultivating fans of Thrash. I must say that this album would be really great if Jeff had done singing the vocals as a singer as Randy Rampage... Certainly his voice is not worthy of the songs on this album, as he strives to prove what is evident.

It seems strange but, I say this without shame, "Second To None" seems more like a cover (with modifications in guitar parts) of ZZ Top. And I do not see this as a bug, indeed. For the rest "King Of The Kill" have some interaction with Saxon or Power/ Prog metal/ Speed bands that with Thrash.

In this "King Of The Kill" description the cover derve a note: I think it sounds nasty. I can not tell why but me has that effect.

At the end "King Of The Kill" is a strange album: ruined from Jeff's voice, with good song but with strange production and mixage. For me this is a Thrash album but more indicated for Hard Rockers or fans of Power/ Prog Metal that for good Thrashers.
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