Feast, the 14th album from thrash veterans
Annihilator, finds the stalwart band sticking to what they do best with an album of driving and slickly produced classic metal. Much like their contemporaries
Overkill,
Annihilator have found solace in staying the course, refining their sound, waiting out the storm, and honing their craft, while giants like
Metallica fall flat while taking risks. In an era where bands are starting to revisit the raw power of thrash,
Annihilator's brand of thrash, tempered with the melodic tendencies of progressive metal, provides the band with the opportunity to show another aspect of one of metal's more influential movements. While this makes for an album that might be pretty hit or miss among newer listeners, old-school fans of the band will have an easy time picking up where they left off with
Annihilator, if they even left at all. ~ Gregory Heaney