''For the Demented'' is the sixteenth studio album by Canadian

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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

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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 (''

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'') 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

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) opened for Testament on the European '' Brotherhood of the Snake'' tour, which took place in November and December 2017.

Track listing

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. Annihilator *

− vocals, guitars, bass,

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* Aaron Homma − lead guitar , backing vocals Additional musicians *

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− backing vocals Production * Jeff Waters −

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, mixing, editing, mastering * Rich Gray − co-producer * Gyula Havancsák − cover art, artwork,

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, design * Jasmina Vrcko – photography

Charts

References

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