ANNIHILATOR – Seeking Touring Bassist

ANNIHILATOR frontman/founder Jeff Waters has issued the following update:

“Annihilator seeking touring bassist! We are on the way to Europe for our awesome summer festival run (Wacken, Barcelona Rock Fest, etc.). As many of you already knew, our bassist Oscar has been a “temp”… we are looking for a bassist for our upcoming headline tour and possibly beyond. Must play with a pick. No dope. No booze problem. No criminal record whatsoever. Oh yeah, he has to play bass good and be a relatively-good person! Send a link to a video of you playing the song ‘Alison Hell’ (with no music behind it… just the bass) to [email protected].

WARNING: Learn the song as close to the way Jeff Waters plays it on this video HERE.

If you don’t, no chance! In your email with your video link, please also include stuff about you! Good luck and have fun!”

Annihilator will release their brand new (and 15th) studio album, Suicide Society, on September 18th via UDR Music worldwide.

As usual, guitar wizard Jeff Waters handles all songwriting duties, plays all guitar & bass, engineers, produces, mixes and masters Suicide Society… and Waters is also back commanding lead vocal duties, as he did on the critically acclaimed King Of The Kill (1994), Refresh The Demon (1996), Remains (1997) and other Annihilator albums over the years.

Waters on his return to vocal duties: “Dave (Padden/vocalist from 03-14) and I have, essentially, been Annihilator since 2003 but he resigned last December, citing having had enough of touring, being away from home and other commitments. I thank him for his 11 years with Annihilator. That said, Annihilator and I are known for never giving up and, occasionally, coming up with something even better than its former offering(s): this is undeniably the case with Suicide Society!”

Waters later elaborated on his initial statement: “Those who expect a King Of The Kill vocal are in for something interesting! I intentionally tried to avoid the cliché metal vocal/rock stuff I did then (but didn’t realize I was doing it then!) and weed out the bad in my voice and style; try to find the good stuff and only do those things! I guess you will be the judge but I am stoked!”

Source: BW&BK

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