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Triple Threat (Annihilator Album)
''Triple Threat'' is a box set by Canadian thrash metal band Annihilator, released on January 27, 2017. It consists of a studio album solely featuring acoustic versions of many of the band's songs from over the years, a live CD featuring their set from the Bang Your Head!!! festival in 2016 and special editions feature a live DVD or Blu-ray. Whereas Jeff Waters is known for recording all studio guitar and bass for Annihilator records himself, Waters said of this album: "This was one of the coolest things I have done in my long career. Having five people in a room, from all different backgrounds and talents, coming together to play songs from the past and to try to sound like we are one but totally live." Track listing Disc 1 Disc 2 Bonus live DVD/Blu-ray Personnel ;Musicians * Jeff Waters – vocals, lead and rhythm guitar on all tracks *Aaron Homma – rhythm guitar on all tracks *Rich Hinks Aeon Zen are an English progressive metal band formed in 2008, led by found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annihilator (band)
Annihilator is a Canadian thrash metal band founded in Ottawa in 1984. It is the highest-selling Canadian thrash metal group in history, having sold more than three million albums worldwide, although most sales have been generated outside of Canada. Along with Sacrifice, Voivod and Razor, Annihilator is known as one of the "big four" of Canadian thrash metal. They are also considered to be part of the "second wave" of thrash metal bands from the late 1980s and early 1990s. Annihilator has released seventeen studio albums and undergone many line-up changes. Waters is the only remaining original member, and assembles touring or session musicians to perform with him. Annihilator's first two studio albums, ''Alice in Hell'' (1989) and ''Never, Neverland'' (1990), are considered to be influential Canadian heavy metal records. Many of their later albums — including their third, and only major-label album '' Set the World on Fire'' (1993) — also received praise from critics, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thrash Metal
Thrash metal (or simply thrash) is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by its overall aggression and often fast tempo.Kahn-Harris, Keith, ''Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge'', pp. 2–3, 9. Oxford: Berg, 2007, . The songs usually use fast percussive beats and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead guitar work. The lyrical subject matter often includes criticism of The Establishment and concern over environmental destruction, and at times shares a disdain for Christian dogma with that of black metal. The language is typically direct and denunciatory, an approach borrowed from hardcore punk. The genre emerged in the early 1980s as musicians began fusing the double bass drumming and complex guitar stylings of the new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM) with the speed and aggression of hardcore punk. Philosophically, thrash metal developed as a backlash against both the conservatism of the Reagan Era and the much more moder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acoustic Music
Acoustic music is music that solely or primarily uses instruments that produce sound through acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means. While all music was once acoustic, the retronym "acoustic music" appeared after the advent of electric instruments, such as the electric guitar, electric violin, electric organ and synthesizer. Acoustic string instrumentations had long been a subset of popular music, particularly in folk. It stood in contrast to various other types of music in various eras, including big band music in the pre-rock era, and electric music in the rock era. Music reviewer Craig Conley suggests, "When music is labeled acoustic, unplugged, or unwired, the assumption seems to be that other types of music are ''cluttered'' by technology and overproduction and therefore aren't as ''pure''." Types of acoustic instruments Acoustic instruments can be split into six groups: string instruments, wind instruments, percussion, other instruments, ensemble i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Waters
Jeff Waters (born February 13, 1966) is a Canadian guitarist and the founder and bandleader of the metal band Annihilator. He was born and resides in Ottawa, Ontario. Waters has owned Watersound Studios Inc. since 1994 (where it was in Maple Ridge, British Columbia) and from 2003 until 2018, in Ottawa, Ontario, and now in the UK. Early life Water's father was in the military and his mother was a teacher. His family had houses in Ottawa and Camp Borden, Ontario as well as London, England. He took some classical and jazz guitar lessons at a young age. Waters has referred to Van Halen, Randy Rhoads, Michael Schenker, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath as his early influences. In a 2013 interview witphotogroupie.comhe said, "I started listening to Elton John, Kiss, Sweet, AC/DC then it evolved from hard rock with electric guitar to Black Sabbath and the heavier stuff, Judas Priest, Maiden, Loudness, Van Halen was coming in. Then I get turned on to the thrash stuff, so th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rich Hinks
Aeon Zen are an English progressive metal band formed in 2008, led by founding member Rich Gray (formerly Hinks). They have been praised and heavily featured in the international music press, labelled by ''Classic Rock Magazine'' as 'a strong contender for best newcomer at the very, very least' and, additionally, as ''Progression Magazine''’s selection for "debut album of the year". To date, the band has released six studio albums, and have assembled a line-up for live performances. Their first and second albums, entitled ''A Mind's Portrait'' and ''The Face of the Unknown'' respectively, were released through Time Divide Records on 1 May 2009 and 12 October 2010. These were followed by ''Enigma'', released through Nightmare Records on 22 January 2013, ''Ephemera'', released on 1 September 2014, ''Inveritas'', released on 10 May 2019, and ''Transversal'', released on 24 September 2021. History ''Origins'' and ''A Mind's Portrait'' (2008–2010) Aeon Zen was founded in 2008 wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suicide Society
''Suicide Society'' is the fifteenth album by the Canadian heavy metal band Annihilator. It was released on September 18, 2015 by UDR Music, and is the first album to feature guitarist and bandleader Jeff Waters performing lead vocals on all tracks since 1997's ''Remains'', due to the departure of vocalist and rhythm guitarist Dave Padden in December 2014. It also marks the return of bassist Cam Dixon, who toured with the band from 1994 to 1995, as well as the addition of new guitarist Aaron Homma, both of whom are credited with providing backing vocals in the liner notes. On this album, Jeff Waters handled all instrumental work in the studio apart from the drums, played by returning drummer Mike Harshaw. The album marks the final studio appearance of Harshaw, who announced via his Facebook page in May 2016 that he had parted ways with the band in order to spend more time with his family and pursue other musical interests. A music video for the title track was released on July 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
For The Demented
''For the Demented'' is the sixteenth studio album by Canadian thrash metal band Annihilator, released on November 3, 2017. Background and production Over a year after the release of '' Suicide Society'' (2015), Annihilator began working on a follow-up album. Founding member and guitarist Jeff Waters told Metal Wani in December 2016: In February 2017, Waters said that the sixteenth Annihilator studio album was being co-produced by bassist Rich Gray (formerly Hinks), making it the "first time I've actually had somebody else in the studio since 1990 (''Never, Neverland'') working with me on stuff." On September 12, 2017, it was announced that the album, now titled ''For the Demented'', would be released on November 3; more details on the album, including track listing and artwork, and the music video for "Twisted Lobotomy" were released on the same day. In support of ''For the Demented'', Annihilator (along with Death Angel) opened for Testament on the European '' Brotherhood o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bang Your Head!!!
Bang Your Head!!! is a heavy metal and hard rock festival held annually in Germany. First held in 1996 as a one-day indoor event in the Stefan-Hartmann-Halle in Tübingen with a crowd of 600 people, Bang Your Head!!! has since moved to Balingen, growing into a multi-day event attracting 1,800 people in 1998, 18,000 people in 1999 and 20,000 in 2005. Acts that have performed at this festival include W.A.S.P., Dio, Motörhead, Deep Purple, and Twisted Sister. Lineups 2014 Held on 11 and 12 July at Messegelände in Balingen, Germany. *Twisted Sister *Europe *Axel Rudi Pell & Friends *Anthrax *Sebastian Bach * Unisonic * Michael Schenker's Temple of Rock *Stryper *Obituary *Exodus *Rob Rock *Ektomorf *Kissin' Dynamite *Grave * Schirenc Plays Pungent Stench *Riot V *Delain * Omen *Warlord *Mad Max *Atlantean Kodex *Hirax *Evocation * The Exalted Piledriver *More *Accu§er *Vain * Warrant Warm-up show on 10 July: *Grave Digger *Victory *Storm Warrior *Bullet *Dynamite 2009 Held ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annihilator (band) Albums
Annihilator(s) may refer to: Mathematics * Annihilator (ring theory) * Annihilator (linear algebra), the annihilator of a subset of a vector subspace * Annihilator method, a type of differential operator, used in a particular method for solving differential equations * Annihilator matrix, in regression analysis Music * Annihilator (band), a Canadian heavy metal band * ''Annihilator'' (album), a 2010 album by the aforementioned band Other media * Annihilator (Justice League), an automaton in the fictional series ''Justice League Unlimited'' * Annihilators (Marvel Comics), a team of superheroes * ''Annihilator'', a 2015 science fiction comic by Grant Morrison and Frazer Irving * ''Annihilator'' (film), a 1986 television film starring Mark Lindsay Chapman * ''The Annihilators'' (film), a 1985 action film by Charles E. Sellier Jr. * ''The Annihilators'' (novel), a 1983 novel by Donald Hamilton See also * Annihilation (other) Annihilation, in physics, is an effect th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
