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Limited vinyl LP pressing of the Canadian Thrash Metal legends' 1990 album.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Pop metal anyone?,
By "hawkwinter" (Smithers, BC Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Never Neverland (Audio CD)
Wow, the previous reviews literally scare me. People liked this album?? Is this some sort of mass collective joke?I love Annihilator, I have all their albums, and listen to them constantly, but this album has remained shelved for many, many years. Absolute pure junk. Let's start with the obvious problems. Number one on the list is Coburn Pharr, who can't sing period, let alone sing good metal. What Jeff was thinking when he hired this "wanna-be" I'll never know. Second, the album is pop metal. While some of the guitar work is still awesome, the songs lack any "metal" to them. I never once replayed a part to hear it again cause it was so cool. Something I did do on their equally disapointing King of the Kill. Then there are the lyrics which went from awesome and fun on Alice in Hell to silly and just plain stupid. Luckily Jeff went a different way with this band, and dumped Pharr. Alice in Hell (their first album) was a thousand times better than this, the third effort, even Set the World on fire, and equally pop metal like album, was better having some really great metal songs as well as some truly fun songs and having at least a decent singer. The two new albums Carnival Diablos and Waking the Fury absolutely rule and if you're looking for the same thrill you got when you bought Alice in Hell, get them now. Skip this disaster, the closest to sell-out album, Jeff and the band ever got. One thing though, I have to admit the song, Phantasmagoria absolutely rules. Note though that it was written before even Alice in Hell. Unfortunately for this album, it was also released with Bag of Tricks featuring Jeff's vocals, which are far superior to Pharr's hoarse vocal strains.
3.0 out of 5 stars
"Welcome to the fun palace",
By mwreview "mwreview" (Northern California, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Never Neverland (Audio CD)
Annihilator was a metal band lead by guitar virtuoso Jeff Waters. He wrote or co-wrote every track on this album and proves a very creative, intelligent lyricist. Waters took a lot of care in these songs and even includes the stories behind the songs. Some examples: the title track is about a girl confined to a room by a fanatically overprotective grandmother after the girl looked at a boy in a grocery store; "Sixes and Sevens" comes from the British phrase for disorder; "Road to Ruin" is about a drunk driver ("impaired security at ninety miles an hour"); "Kraf Dinner" is about just what the title states without risking copyright infringes ("a cheddar cheese heart attack"); "Stonewall" was written after Waters moved to Vancouver and discovered the depressing reality of chemical damage to a river. The music is also very creative. The guitar in "Never, Neverland" (not affiliated with Michael Jackson's estate) is beautiful (not unlike "Crystal Ann" from their debut album) and it incorporates a story-telling vocal. Things get silly, though, when they get to the defensive part: "Get back, back! Just leave us all alone! Take that and that! I'll break your every bone!" (can you imagine a little girl yelling this?). Some of the songs are preachy, especially "Stonewall" ("the power of corporations, spewing chemicals into the air. Fines are imposed to discourage, but what's a dime to a millionaire.") Still, the album rocks with, of course, excellent guitar. The music gets more thrash in the last tracks, although I find the first half of the album to be more interesting. It is also more solid than their previous album Alice in Hell.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Too late for them...,
This review is from: Never Neverland (Audio CD)
This gem had only one trouble: it came in 1990, when trahs was already losing its force, and when its pioneers like Metallica and Slayer had already ripped the benefits.Also, the uncapacity of Jeff Waters to keep its singers made the band lack a solid indentity with its public. But "NEVER NEVERLAND" is marvellous, the bes trash than can be created!
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