Annihilator
About Annihilator:
Annihilator is led by founding member Jeff Waters and the band, to date, has 15 studio albums and numerous other releases. Waters is the guitarist, vocalist, studio bassist and writer for Annihilator as well as a studio owner, producer, engineer and mix and mastering engineer. The band became an international success, continuing from their first studio release in 1989, to today. Annihilator has become the biggest selling Canadian Metal band of all-time, though the majority of their sales have been generated from Asia and Europe.
Waters has been cited by many metal musicians worldwide as having an influence on their own music. These artists come from bands as diverse as 3 Doors Down, Slipknot, Nickelback, Megadeth, Killswitch Engage, Lamb of God, Opeth, In Flames, Danko Jones, H.I.M., Children Of Bodom and Trivium.
Music writer Joel McIver identified Waters as history’s third best metal guitar player in his best-selling book The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists. Waters is also the host of the “Jamming with Waters in International Waters” All-Star Jam, aboard the biggest metal cruise in the world; the “70,000 Tons of Metal” cruise.
Often touring, Annihilator are known as an energetic and authentic metal band. Song themes range from heavy metal, thrash metal, slight punk influences, pop, blues, hard rock, classical and even love songs!
