Canada’s The Metal Voice (https://www.facebook.com/themetalvoice) recently spoke with Jeff Waters guitarist/vocalist of legendary Canadian thrash act ANNIHILATOR. Watch interview HERE.
When asked about the release date and the musical direction of their new album the follow-up to Suicide Society.
“I am guessing late October 2017 is going to be the release date that is what we have been talking about with the label. I’ll have the album finished before the summer Canadian tour. I just finished my first song on vocals this afternoon should come out in October 2017, if everything works fine should go out on a huge tour of Europe afterwards. New record started out writing and recording it right after the 70,000 tons Metal Cruise that we did in February 2017 and it was off three days writing. For the vocals, initially the only plan I had was ok you got to stop doing singing the Hetfield, Mustiane, Ozzy singing style cause I had too much of that style of singing on the last record. It was too much of a fan boy. It was like 65% fan boy, 35% Waters, so now I sort of leveled it off to 75% me. I wanted to do this new record and try to put more importance on the vocals but not with layering with four voices and fixing the shitty notes. I meant more like one track get back to what I did on albums like ‘King of the Kill’ and ‘Refresh the Demon’, get back to more that style. I just wanted to be able to do that once and if things don’t work out, maybe I will consider someone else as a vocalist, that is always a possibility.”
“I am not going to worry about commercial catchy choruses on this album. Forget the formula’s I have been leaning towards the last ten albums or more, just wanted to write something messed up that doesn’t make sense to do. What ended up happening is, the music started sounding like the first two records (Alice in Hell, Never Neverland). I also brought in another producer, writer, co-writer of the music and I sat there with Rich Hinks (producer) from the UK, he is actually our bass player for the last year. There was something about him that I knew after I met him and spent a year on the road with him I realized this is the guy I want to come in and kick my butt, he knows the band and he knows music and studio as well me but he knows a different way.”
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