For The Demented Annihilator

• 1 Twisted Lobotomy 04:44
• 2 One To Kill 04:43
• 3 For The Demented 05:22
• 4 Pieces Of You 06:10
• 5 The Demon You Know 04:43
• 6 Phantom Asylum 06:14
• 7 Altering The Altar 05:05
• 8 The Way 03:18
• 9 Dark 02:09
• 10 Not All There 05:42
• Total Runtime 48:10

Info for For The Demented

Annihilator’s brand-new album “For The Demented” promises to pack a premier punch. Thrash/Heavy Metal Legends to release 16th studio album on November 3rd, 2017 Since 1989, Canada’s ANNIHILATOR have not stopped putting out records and touring the world.

Despite the ever-changing climate of the Metal World (and releasing a series of “different” Metal records with various lineups along the way), Jeff Waters and company have consistently delivered strong albums since the band’s debut “Alice In Hell”. Then there was 1990’s best-selling “Never, Neverland”, 1995’s “King of The Kill”, “Schizo Deluxe” in 2005 and many other critically-acclaimed releases up until 2015’s “Suicide Society.”

The ‘under-the-radar’ influence of this band and writer/guitarist/vocalist Jeff Waters, has been felt throughout the entire realm of the metal world by a ton of well-known musicians and bands; that influence even stretching into the hard rock and instrumentalist genre.

ANNIHILATOR’s main man Jeff Waters, in his usual humble manner, offers this in response: “ANNIHILATOR’s music has been influenced by a good hundred of my favorite bands and musicians; you can hear their contributions to what I have been doing all throughout ANNIHILATOR’s catalogue. It’s a bonus and an honor when bands and musicians I love mention that I had something to do with their playing or songs!” Which all leads to the fact that ANNIHILATOR’S 16th studio release, “For The Demented”, is certainly their most complete and definitive statement yet.

“It was time to analyze what a lot of fans over the years have kept telling me,” says Waters. “It was time to sit down and figure out “why” ANNIHILATOR’s early “thrash-meets-melodic” caught the ears of so many AND to try to sweep the “fan” part of my writing/playing/singing out the door and welcome back the mostly-original Waters writing that was to be the first four ANNIHILATOR albums.” Waters didn’t venture back alone, while looking back through ANNIHILATOR’S history.

“I was well aware that trying to re-capture the past usually fails, or at least won’t come close. So, I decided to bring in fresh ears, both musically and physically with Rich Hinks, my bassist for the last few years. And doing most all of the records by myself, including writing and playing most all on my own, as well as mixing, mastering, engineering, etc…, well it can become routine and can often hinder you from being objective and more creative. Rich came in and co-wrote the music with me, as well as co-produced the beginning stages of the record. His background of classic thrash metal meets a newer “math” metal style was the perfect combination for me to simply ask, “what do you think of this?” He would most-often reply with “not the ANNIHILATOR style I like”, so we would keep going until we both felt that core ANNIHILATOR riffing and writing style presented itself. “Bottom line, “For The Demented” captures some feel from ANNIHILATOR’s 1985-87 demos mixed with the first 4 ANNIHILATOR records. Back to the thrash meets melody but with some pure Waters guitar riffing, up-graded lead guitar shredding and vocals back to the demo-days meets the “King of The Kill” record. Lyrically, I placed a theme on the record: the human mind and all of its glory, complexity, diversity, weaknesses and insanity! Pretty much the craziness of the music is matched by the lyrics.” “I think Metal Fans are going to hear much of what they have been waiting for from ANNIHILATOR.”

Jeff Waters, vocals, guitar
Fabio Alessandrini, drums
Rich Hinks, bass
Aaron Homma, guitar

Annihilator
The band is called “ANNIHILATOR” and is led by founding member Jeff Waters. The band, to date, has 15 studio cd’s and numerous other releases. Waters is the guitarist, vocalist, studio bassist & writer for Annihilator as well as a studio owner, producer, engineer and mix & mastering engineer (As if that isn’t enough!).

Jeff Waters formed the band back in 1984 in Ottawa, Canada, with singer John Bates. During the early era of the band, Jeff’s goal was to produce a stable line-up. However, members left for a multitude of reasons such as family/relationship stuff, substance abuse, work commitments or simply realizing that this music biz life is not for everyone! ​

Due to these rapid line-up changes, Waters had felt he needed to take on the role of bass player, engineer, producer and writer as well as guitar player. After the bands’ 2rd record, Waters began to embrace the idea of hiring musicians for touring and often hiring a drummer and singer for the studio, when Waters himself was not singing. Most of the bands’ 160 original songs have been written by Waters.

Waters, in fact, was the lead vocalist on 1995’s “King of the Kill”, a huge Euro-Asian hit for the band. So successful was Waters’ first venture as singer, that he remained as studio and live vocalist for 3 records, finally turning over the reins to another singer in 1999. Waters now returns as vocalist on 2015’s “Suicide Society”. ​

In a nutshell, the band became in international success, continuing from their first 1989 studio release, to today. However 95% of their sustained success comes from Europe and Asia. The North American market changed in 1993 and left many metal bands without deals; Annihilator was very fortunate to have a strong and stable following overseas. Hits like “King of the Kill”,” Set The World On Fire”, “Refresh The Demon”, “No Way Out” and “Alison Hell” are Euro-Asian anthems and the band has never stopped releasing records and touring since 1989. Despite not touring and receiving virtually no press or label interest in Canada and the USA, Annihilator has become the biggest selling Canadian Metal band of all-time, yet the majority of their sales have been generated from Asia and Europe.

Waters has been cited by many metal musicians worldwide as an influence on their own music. Artists from bands as diverse as 3 Doors Down, Slipknot, Nickelback, Megadeth, Killswitch Engage, Lamb of God, Opeth, In Flames, Danko Jones, H.I.M., Children Of Bodom to Trivium are either influenced by Waters' writing and guitar playing or have revealed themselves as a fan of Annihilator or his guitar playing.

Music writer Joel McIver identified Waters as history’s third best metal guitar player in his best-selling book “The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists”. Waters is often compared to Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters, due to being a multi-instrumentalist.

Since 1993, Waters has ghost-written many country/pop ballad songs for other artists, as well as tv show music and other studio/writing-related endevours.

Watersound Studios Inc. has been Waters' studio since 1994. In 2003, Waters relocated his home from Maple Ridge, BC to the Ottawa region.

Waters is also the host of the “Jamming with Waters in International Waters” All-Star Jam, aboard the biggest metal cruise in the world; the “70,000 Tons of Metal” cruise.

Often touring, Annihilator are known as an energetic and real metal band. Song themes range from heavy metal, thrash metal, slight punk influences, pop, blues, hard rock, classical to love songs! Not shy in crediting countless musicians and bands as influence, Waters calls Annihilator his “Therapeutic, fun and life obsession with some kick-ass in there! I love rock and metal; all kinds, as well as travelling the world and meeting so many cool people.”

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