Disco de Annihilator: “Live at Masters of Rock”

Annihilator's Live at Masters of Rock is an absolutely fantastic concert DVD, which I wholeheartedly recommend to you straight off the bat.

The almost eighty minute concert from 2008, filmed in the Czech Republic features a brilliant track listing, great production values and one of the finest live performances I've seen in a while.

Annihilator's Jeff Waters is an excellent front man and a great showman, getting the crowd excited and talking in between songs in a way that gives the impression of a man who really enjoys what he does.

Singer Dave Padden, Annihilator's longest standing member bar Waters is absolutely fantastic on this record for both his often overlooked contribution on guitar and of course his vocal performance. The extent to which he can replicate the band's first three singer's voices is truly phenomenal, if you didn't know better it'd be very difficult to tell that Padden wasn't the original singer.

The band throw out classics like `King of The Kill,' `Set The World On Fire,' and `I Am In Command,' alongside a few newer tracks, all of the songs gel really well together and the band know what the audience want to hear.

The majority of the set is composed of the fan favorite albums `Alice In Hell,' and `Never Neverland,' two absolute classic Thrash albums, this informs the sound quality quite a bit with the tones and mix seemingly engineered to replicate the production of those albums and sounding fantastic as a result.

The lighting, Camera work and editing are all pretty top notch as well, especially considering that this was recorded at a festival. As a viewing experience the concert works really well and there are not bad cuts, out of sync audio and now cheesy transitions to spoil things for the viewer. What you get is a very pure, natural recording that lets the music do the talking.

If I was forced to say something negative about the DVD, it would be that drummer Ryan Ahoff doesn't get very much screen time but that is about the only thing that comes close to a fault on this excellent product.

To summarize, even as an absolutely avid fan of Live concert DVDs; this is one of the most impressive note perfect performances I've seen and even the most casual Annihilator fan should give this DVD serious consideration.

This shreds! Sure there's a couple of songs from the (off) cd's but they kill on this DVD. Great sonics and a lot of fun! 60 minutes or more of thrashtastic killer songs. Enjoy!

THE very first time I heard ANNIHILATORS past albums I was hoping and wishing that one day would come that he would make a live dvd of one of his on the road projects so we that being let me start: JEFF WATERS is one of the best guitarist and technician of his kind,a man from CANADA that can belt out some serious chops and I love his signature v guitars.HE picked out some good songs for this dvd from KING OF THE KILL TO ALISON IN HELL and a good rockin tune to finish his set.the quality of the dvd is super with the fans in mind as JEFF mixed it well in his studio,I think it is top notch and I would recommend this to anyone in the thrash/hard rock scene so its a must have.THE whole time you watching the band performing it is a moving experience one song after another even when JEFF WATERS takes a moment for his self or the other members you know that its getting time to speed things back up in high gear and keep you rockin in your seats.I am very impressed and very pleased by far this is a masterpiece of ANNIHILATOR with JEFF WATERS as the captain...