Jeff Waters On Touring With TRIVIUM: "It Was A Really Good Thing For ANNIHILATOR, That's For Sure!"
June 20, 2007, 17 years ago
Metal-Rules.com has issued an interview with ANNIHILATOR leader Jeff Waters, conducted by Marko Syrjälä. The following is an excerpt:
Q: Although you have done several tours in Europe in past years it’s been a while since you’ve been in Finland or even in Scandinavia. If I remember right, the last time was in 1991 when you were supporting JUDAS PRIEST with PANTERA?
A: "You’re right. This is our eighteenth tour of Europe and we’ve been touring every year in Europe but we haven’t been to Scandinavia or the UK for about, well the last time I was in Scandinavia was 1991.
Corey from TRIVIUM was cool to call me up and ask us to support them on their tour which was really cool because they are a hot band so to speak and get a lot of press. They are selling a lot of records. A lot more than Annihilator are selling right now.
But the cool thing for me was Corey said ‘Hey, you wanna come along to the Scandinavia and UK tour?’ because originally we were gonna do the rest of Europe with them but they did us a huge favour and brought us to the places that we haven’t been popular at, which was amazing. We have just done three weeks in the UK playing to 5,000 people a night. All 15 - 20 year old kids, so it was a really good thing for Annihilator that’s for sure!"
Read the full interview here.
