Album
Ballistic, Sadistic
Ballistic, Sadistic is the seventeenth studio album by Annihilator, the Canadian thrash metal band led by Jeff Waters. It came out on 24 January 2020 through Silver Lining Music and Neverland Music, with Waters himself producing.
It arrived after For the Demented in 2017 and before Metal II in 2022, so it sits in a busy stretch of a catalogue stretching back to Alice in Hell in 1989. Four singles paved the way: "I Am Warfare", "Psycho Ward", "Armed to the Teeth" and "Dressed Up for Evil". Those make a handy starting point if you want to hear what Waters was aiming for here.
Ballistic, Sadistic: tracklist, credits and charts
10 tracks · 45:28Tracklist
- 1Armed to the Teeth4:26
- 2The Attitude4:02
- 3Psycho Ward4:39
- 4I Am Warfare4:46
- 5Out With the Garbage4:27
- 6Dressed Up for Evil4:41
- 7Riot3:46
- 8One Wrong Move4:36
- 9Lip Service5:49
- 10The End of the Lie4:16
- Produced by
- Jeff Waters
- Recorded at
- Watersound Studios, Ottawa, Canada
- Recorded
- 2019
- Mixed by
- Jeff Waters
- Engineered by
- Jeff Waters
- Labels
- Фоно, Silver Linings Music and Neverland Music (International edition), Avalon (Japanese edition)
- Length
- 45:28
Line-up
- Fabio Alessandrini · drums (drum set)
- Jeff Waters · electric bass guitar, electric guitar, lead vocals
Singles
- “I Am Warfare” · 10 October 2019
- “Psycho Ward” · 27 November 2019
- “Armed to the Teeth” · 13 December 2019
- “Dressed Up for Evil” · 17 January 2020
Peak chart positions
| Chart | Peak |
|---|---|
| Hungarian Albums · 2020 | 29 |
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How we know the release date wikipedia + wikidata; also seen: 2020-01-22 (musicbrainz)
| Source | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|
| MusicBrainz | 22 January 2020 | |
| Wikipedia infobox | 24 January 2020 | |
| Wikidata | 24 January 2020 | |
| Deezer | 24 January 2020 | |
| UK / Europe release | 24 January 2020 | earliest UK or European date |
5 editions
| Date | Country | Label | Barcode | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | RU | Фоно | 4632000153026 | other |
| 22 January 2020 | JP | AVALON | 4527516018917 | original |
| 24 January 2020 | CA | Silver Lining Music | 190296876288 | other |
| 24 January 2020 | GB | Silver Lining Music | 190296876738 | other |
| 24 January 2020 | GB | Silver Lining Music | 190296876738 | other |
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| Source | Size | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| coverartarchive ✓ | 1400×1400 | upscaled: minor: best source 1400x1400, upscaled to 1500 (x1.07) |
| deezer | 1200×1200 | upscaled |
| fanarttv | 1000×1000 | upscaled |