Annihilator- Alice in Hell

Hello, here I am going to start out my blog with an album that is an amazing piece of Thrash Metal art, Annihilator- Alice in Hell. this is one of those albums for me that I can listen to all the way through and every song is good. This is melodic thrash at it's finest!
       Annihilator is a Canadian Heavy metal  band formed in 1984 by the leader and only permanent member, vocalist, guitarist and bassist Jeff Water.  Alice in hell is Annihilator's debut album and was released on September 5, 1989. I don't want to go into very much detail about the bands history in my blog posts, that's something you can do yourself by going to  http://www.metal-archives.com/ which I highly recommend because it is by far the most comprehensive metal website out there, probably about 90% of all the metal bands in the world are on there. I'm here to talk about the albums.
      I want to start off by saying that this album is amazing, it is defiantly one of the top thrash metal albums ever recorded in my opinion. Simply put it Jeff Waters is a genius, an absolutely creative person.  Anithihlator was probably the best canadian thrash bands on that scene that included bands like Razor, VioVod, Sacrifece, and Slaughter. First of all the riffs on this album are genius. they are unlike most thrash riffs in the world. Jeff waters song writing  skills longingly surpass most thrash guitarists. this album has amazing melodys while still being brutally fast at the same time. I remember the first annihilator song I ever heard was Ligeia which is the eighth track off the album. My first impression was more of a weird one than a good one. For some weird reason I just thought they sounded kinda weird and quirky ,and that's just it about this album, the riffs and melodys are just kinda weird to me, it's really hard to explain, im sure a lot of people would think im stupid for thinking it's weird, but that was my first impression. Of course when I first heard this i wasn't into near all the thrash I am now. not long after that though I realized that there was a lot of technical riffs and scale patterns throughout the whole album, and all the songs just started growing on me.
        Starting from the beginning of the album is Crystal Ann which right away was crazy. It's like a classical guitar instrumental. Right away you can tell there is a shit ton of talent here. right after that is the title track.....well technically not because it's called Alison Hell which is kind of weird like how Reign In Blood by Slayer has the track Raining Blood. anyways the song absolutely rules and it's catchy as hell. The melodic riffs in the beginning are amazing and just flow so well, and the course is just amazing. One thing that is really amazing on this album is  the bass playing, which Jeff played. The bass compliments the guitars so well with it's own little melodys. Lets talk about the vocals. the vocalist Randy Rampage has a unique voice. his voice is just kind of a calm gtrunting type of voice thats hard to explain but it defiantly fits the music. to bad though he left right after this album, and didn't coma back until 1999 to make the album Critera For The Black widow, then left again.
        Overall this album is just kind of hard to describe, it's just a good progressive melodic speed metal album that must be heard. in my opinoin annithihlator was never as good as their debut was although the next album Neverneverland is pretty good too. Listen to all the songs on this album first, Burns Like A Buzzsaw Blade, W. T. Y .D, Human insecticide....they are all good. good fast metal with great hooks and amazing guitar playing, it's no wonder that Dave Mustaine considered hireing Jeff Waters to be in Megadeth at one point. definatly a must for any thrash fan.