''King of the Kill'' is the fourth album by Canadian heavy metal band Annihilator, released in 1994. This was the first Annihilator album not released on

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, and marked a return to the

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sound of their earlier albums, ''

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'' and ''

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'', after the commercial failure of its predecessor '' Set the World on Fire'', while also retaining some of that album's radio-friendly sound. ''King of the Kill'' was also the first of three consecutive studio albums to feature guitarist and bandleader

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 ...

on both lead vocals and bass.

Track listing

Credits

– vocals, guitars, bass *

Randy Black Randy Black (born November 17, 1963) is a Canadian-born rock drummer known best for his stints as the drummer for Bif Naked, Annihilator, and Primal Fear. Although Black's actual acoustic drum configuration is not unique to the field of drummi ...

– drums

References

Annihilator (band) albums 1994 albums CMC International albums {{1990s-metal-album-stub