Annihilated – XIII Steps To Ruination


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There aren’t enough rubbish bands these days.

Perhaps it’s the higher quality of home-recording techniques, the greater amount of competition or simply a product of my perception, but there seem to be fewer genuinely terrible bands and albums available now than there were ten or fifteen years ago. This seems like an odd thing to complain about, until you realise that fewer rubbish bands doesn’t mean more good ones, it means more mediocre ones. Average is the new bad, and it’s far, far worse than rubbish ever was.

Annihilated play the kind of groove-driven “brutal” Death Metal that was popular in the late 90’s/early 2000’s, and you can’t point to anything specifically bad about it. The playing is competent, song-writing is effective if unspectacular and the production is as crunchy as one would expect. The band has a decent enough sense of rhythm, with guttural vocals and effectively deployed samples and… you get the idea. Annihilated are the kind of band who seem to be happy making up the numbers, adding one to the tally of identical Death Metal bands that have nothing particular to offer.

Bottom line, there is nothing about this album that hasn’t been done better before over a decade ago. If it were genuinely bad there’d at least be some pleasure to be had in pointing that out, but even that isn’t an option. I can’t in good conscience attack XIII Steps To Ruination (Unique Leader), but nor can I recommend it to anyone who knows the first thing about this style

4.5/10

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RICHIE HR


New Music Premiere – Annihilated: Global Enslavement


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Los Angeles Death Metal emissaries Annihilated are preparing to drop their brutal début manifesto, XIII Steps To Ruination from Unique Leader Records on October 28th (next Tuesday). Featuring former members of Abysmal Dawn, Grotesque, Excretion, and Arkaik the band may be new, but has the pedigree of hardened musical killers. Ghost Cult is proud to partner with Earsplit PR to bring you this great new band!

Listen to ‘Global Enslavement’ now!

Official Press Release:

California-based extreme death metal perpetrators, Annihilated — who features within its ranks, current and former members of Abysmal Dawn, Grotesque, Excretion, and Arkaik — will spread their sonic sickness across the lands this Fall with the release of debut full-length, XIII Steps To Ruination.

Set for official unleashing via brutality powerhouse, Unique Leader Records, later this Fall, Annihilated’s XIII Steps To Ruination was produced by drummer Scott Fuller (Abysmal Dawn) and boasts eleven pounding, methodically-crafted tales of torment bedecked in hailstorm riff sequences, homicidal blasts, maniacal vocal onslaughts, and strategically composed percussive syncopation all fueled, conceptually, by political/corporate disgust and societal revulsion. As an added bonus, XIII Steps To Ruination features guest appearances by Sven De Caluwe (Aborted), Monte Pittman (Prong), Peter Truax (Vesterian, Eyes Of Fire) and Eric Stobel (Plaguereaper, P.O.R.).

Comments Fuller of Annihilated’s union with Unique Leader: “We are psyched to be a part of the Unique Leader family. With such a notable roster of brutal death metal bands and awesome releases, we feel right at home.”

XIII Steps To Ruination Track Listing:
1. Global Enslavement
2. Eyes In The Sky
3. This Fear I Speak Of
4. XIII Steps To Ruination
5. Eradication Profits
6. Divide Distract Deceive
7. For The Ignorant
8. Wastelands
9. Creations Of Man
10. Throne Of Eternity
11. Putrifacation

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Annihilated was forged in 2008 by guitarists Eric Matranga and Robert Fimbres shortly following the demise of Los Angeles’ Excretion. Intent on composing music with a purpose, Annihilated stands resolutely against the prevalent “sheep mentality” of society in favor of rational thought, questioning the motives of government and news media outlets though debilitating auditory domination.

XIII Steps To Ruination will see release via Unique Leader Records on October 28th, 2014 North America, October 31st,2014 in Europe and November 3rd, 2014 in the UK. Preorder your copy today at THIS LOCATION.

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