The artist: Annihilator are a classic thrash metal band not from America or Germany but Canada. Annihilator have released 13 albums since they started and went through many changes but the one man who keeps the band alive is Jeff Waters. Although from a personal view I've only listened to two of their albums, the first two (i.e. Alice in Hell and Never, Neverland) are some good stuff.
The album: Alice in Hell is Annihilator's debut album and easily their most recognisable one from their catalogue. This is the only album to have Randy Rampage on vocals for the band. Randy left the band after the tour for this album. Annihilator found Coburn Pharr to take care of the vocals but he doesn't quite shine a light in the candle like Randy did for the band.
The song: Schizos (Are Never Alone), Pts. 1 & 2 is the instrumental of the album along with the intro track Crystal Ann. Although the lines "Schizos are never alone" are spoken several times throughout the track, it's still considered as an instrumental for the band to be metal thrashing mad without relying on any vocals for 99% of the time. There's always a charm in thrash metal instrumentals and Schizos (Are Never Alone) is one of them. The song starts off fast-ish but the whole band then turn up the pace and Jeff Waters offers you fast and catchy riffs. The instrumental changes its tempo a few times giving it some nice twists to it. Overall, Schizos (Are Never Alone) is a metal instrumental that needs to be heard and shouldn't make the listener bored at all with its various changes throughout.
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