Never, Neverland

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Never, Neverland
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 12, 1990 [1]
RecordedFebruary–April 1990
Studio
Genre
Length43:59
Label Roadrunner
Producer Glen Robinson, Jeff Waters
Annihilator chronology
Alice in Hell
(1989)
Never, Neverland
(1990)
Set the World on Fire
(1993)
Singles from Never, Neverland
  1. "The Fun Palace"
    Released: 1990
  2. "Never, Neverland"
    Released: 1991
  3. "Stonewall"
    Released: 1991

Never, Neverland is the second album by heavy metal band Annihilator. It was released on September 12, 1990, under the label Roadrunner. The album was re-released twice: in 1998 with three demo tracks as bonus tracks and again on September 9, 2003, in a two-disc compilation set along with Alice in Hell , entitled Alice in Hell/Never Neverland (as part of Roadrunner Records Two from the Vault series). [2]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [1]
Classic Rock Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Rock Hard Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Select Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]

Nick Griffiths of Select gave the album a two-out-of-five rating, and described it as a "patchwork of half-fulfilled promises, it threatens more than it delivers." He noted that "only when the lead axe spits caterwauling speedplay and the thrash rhythm do Annihilator finally wash their true colours in public" and that "elsewhere there's a tendency to steer into formularised ruts, escaping occasionally like on the ghoulish riffs of 'Sixes and Sevens'." [5]

Alex Henderson of AllMusic gave the album 4.5 stars out of 5, calling it "one of 1990's strongest metal releases". [1]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Jeff Waters

No.TitleLength
1."The Fun Palace"5:51
2."Road to Ruin"3:42
3."Sixes and Sevens"5:20
4."Stonewall"4:50
5."Never, Neverland"5:29
6."Imperiled Eyes"5:27
7."Kraf Dinner"2:41
8."Phantasmagoria"3:59
9."Reduced to Ash"3:09
10."I Am in Command"3:34
Total length:43:59
1998 and 2003 bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
11."Kraf Dinner" (demo)2:32
12."Mayhem" (demo of Reduced to Ash)2:54
13."Freed from the Pit" (demo of Road to Ruin)3:45

Credits

Band members
Production

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