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| 1.5 very poor | Mitch | November 17th 21 |
Wanna know what kind of albums I like? rGood ones.
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| 2.0 poor | TableLamp | December 23rd 19 |
Has all the hallmarks of a dogshit album, yet manages to be nothing less than below average.
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| 2.5 average | Resident Metalhead Piranha | July 31st 17 |
Even more of a stepdown than the decent Refresh The Demon, Remains is the sound of the only 'remaining' band member Jeff Waters struggling to balance the mechanical feel of this album with fresh sounding material. "Reaction" is the thrashiest song they've done since their first two albums and maybe the highlight tune here, and "Dead Wrong" pulls of its mechanical grooviness pretty well. The rest is bland but bearable industrial metal. The low point of their 90's affair but not a terrible album.
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| 2.5 average | Robbit | April 30th 16 |
Although marketed as an Annihilator album, REMAINS is actually a full fledged solo album by
band founder Jeff Waters. And while it?s true that both KING OF THE KILL and REFRESH THE
DEMON were also largely created by Waters with minimal help from other musicians, Waters
replaced drummer Randy Black with a drum machine for this album! Aside from minor
contributions to two songs by John Bates & Dave Steele, everything you hear on this album is
Jeff. What he's accomplished here is actually quite admirable and should be viewed for what
it is a solo album done almost COMPLETELY solo. Jeff takes this opportunity to experiment
with his songwriting choices, but really doesn't veer all that far from his signature sound.
Tracks like "Tricks And Traps" and the incredibly fast guitar riffing of "Reaction" are good
examples of the old Annihilator sound. The thrashing "Never" refreshingly takes skinheads and
racists to task for their ignorant ideologies. "Wind" is nice melodic track that is a better
example of Jeff's experimentation outside of his usual parameters. The ballad "It's You" is
placed at the very end of the record and is probably the biggest left turn stylistically.
While REMAINS has seemingly been ignored by some Annihilator fans, it does deserve a listen or
two before rendering judgment. I believe it would have been more interesting record had Jeff
been a bit more willing to work a little more outside his comfort zone.
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| 3.5 great | Annihilatorgods | October 16th 12 |
Annihilator just rocks full stop,jeff waters is my new guitar god.
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| 1.5 very poor | TheHamburgerman | August 21st 10 |
Remains is a very tame record compared to older Annihilator albums. This should not be a problem in and of itself, except Annihilator's brutality and guitar wizardry was its selling point. Remains has done away with those elements, but did not patch the empty spaces with new ideas.
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| 2.0 poor | Djokoll | September 14th 22 |
| 2.5 average | Jonatas | December 18th 21 |
| 2.0 poor | Harlz | March 7th 21 |
| 1.5 very poor | ElSomni | July 13th 20 |
| 1.5 very poor | mEyck07 | December 24th 19 |
| 1.5 very poor | solrage | September 26th 19 |
| 1.5 very poor | tuacafb | August 20th 19 |
| 2.0 poor | Flave | February 12th 18 |
| 2.0 poor | Rosier | February 10th 18 |
| 1.0 awful | Elynna | November 22nd 17 |
| 1.0 awful | Death | November 16th 17 |
| 2.0 poor | Xurxo | November 9th 16 |
| 2.0 poor | GxTxK | October 24th 16 |
| 2.0 poor | zantxu | October 15th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | Faenrir | September 13th 16 |
| 2.0 poor | DaveD | August 18th 16 |
| 2.5 average | Trey STAFF | November 24th 14 |
| 1.5 very poor | Zantera | March 2nd 13 |
| 1.5 very poor | MGMTBoys | November 28th 12 |
| 2.5 average | Phate72 | February 13th 12 |
| 3.0 good | aeuk | November 19th 09 |
| 2.5 average | KILL | September 10th 09 |
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