Annihilator - Metal II

Annihilator - Metal IIDouble vinyl LP pressing. 2022 release. Annihilator is a Canadian thrash metal band founded in Ottawa 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. Fans have been waiting for years and it's finally happening: the much sought after and previously unavailable Annihilator back catalogue is getting a series of re issues

one-chord thump of North Mississippi Hill country blues

as well as an upcoming album launch party in Rome along with Anathema's Vincent Cavanagh and currently two festival dates in the Netherlands - Crosslands and Prognosis

and the quiet pressure of modern life

both issued on James Murphy's DFA Records

Early 80's AOR / Blue-Eyed Soul's treasure is finally reissued as LP

revolutionary and sensitive facets

Selections included: The Genius of the Crowd

and embraced by DJs like the BBC's Gilles Peterson

when Norwegian scholar Sophus Bugge claimed it was a 17th century fabrication

In the 1980s Stanko played with Cecil Taylor

and hypnotic grooves

Funkadelic was streamlining it's sound