Never, Neverland

This article is about the album by Annihilator. For the album by Unto Others, see Unto Others (band).

Never, Neverland is the second album by heavy metal band Annihilator. It was released in July 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).^[1]

Never, Neverland
Studio album by Annihilator
Released	July 1990
Recorded	February–April 1990
Studio	Vancouver Studios, Vancouver, Canada
Genre	Thrash metal speed metal
Length	43:59
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
"The Fun Palace" Released: 1990 "Never, Neverland" Released: 1991 "Stonewall" Released: 1991

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Classic Rock	[3]
Rock Hard	[4]
Select	[5]

The album received mostly positive reviews from fans and critics. 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".^[2]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Jeff Waters.

No.	Title	Length
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.	Title	Length
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

Personnel

Band members

• Coburn Pharr – vocals
• Jeff Waters – guitars, bass, drum writing and arrangements, cover concept
• Wayne Darley – bass
• Ray Hartmann – drums
• Dave Scott Davis – guitar solos on tracks 1 and 8

Production

• Glen Robinson – co-producer, engineer, mixing
• Jeff Waters co-producer
• Steve Royea – engineer
• George Marino – mastering
• Victor Dezso, Mark Van Der Wielen – photography
• Nick Gilman – artwork, cover design
• Len Rooney Creative – artwork
• Len Rooney – cover concept, cover design
• Monte Conner – executive producer
• Recorded February–April 1990 at Vancouver Studios, Vancouver, Canada
• mixed in April 1990 at Le Studio, Morin Heights, Quebec, Canada
• Mastered at Sterling Sound, New York City, U.S.
• Chris Gehringer – remastering
• Satoshi Kobayashi – reissue design