An audio sample of the new ANNIHILATOR track 'Kicked' featuring a guitar solo from TRIVIUM guitarist Corey Beaulieu is now available at this location.

As previously reported, an sample of the new Annihilator track 'Downright Dominate' featuring a guitar solo from CHILDREN OF BODOM frontman Alexi Laiho is available here. The song is taken from Annihilator's forthcoming album, Metal.

NEVERMORE guitarist Jeff Loomis has uploaded an audio sample of the song 'Clown Parade' from Metal at his official MySpace page. Loomis provides a guitar solo for the song, which kicks off the album.

Other audio samples from Metal are also available. Click here to check out 'Army Of One', featuring a guitar solo from ANVIL frontman Lips. Click here to check out 'Couple Suicide' featuring singer Danko Jones and ARCH ENEMY vocalist Angela Gossow.

Metal will be released April 11th in Japan (King Records), April 12th in Australia/New Zealand (World Riot Distributors), April 13th in Germany (SPV) and on April 16th in the rest of Europe (SPV). A North American deal is still in the works.

The album features Jeff Waters (guitar, bass and lead vocals on one song), drum legend Mike Mangini and Dave Padden (long-time vocalist and touring guitarist/vocalist). Metal also features sensational performances by some of metal’s finest players and Annihilator’s good friends, like Alexi Laiho (CHILDREN OF BODOM), Danko Jones, Michael Amott and Angela Gossow (ARCH ENEMY), Corey Beaulieu (TRIVIUM), William Adler (LAMB OF GOD), Jeff Loomis (NEVERMORE), Jesper Strømblad (IN FLAMES), Steve ´Lips` Kudlow (ANVIL), Anders Bjørler (THE HAUNTED), Mike Mangini (Steve Vai, EXTREME, Annihilator), Jacob Lynam (LYNAM) and more.