New Anthrax

Knucklehead · Post by **Knucklehead** » Thu August 25th, 2011, 7:28 pm

They fucking covered "New Noise". I don't need to hear fucking Joey Belladonna doing what Dennis Lyxzen did 10,000 times better.

I never did like this fucking band.

Post by **Brian** » Thu August 25th, 2011, 7:35 pm

Is this a joke?

stewvee · Post by **stewvee** » Thu August 25th, 2011, 8:20 pm

Fuck man. Bring back fucking S O Deeeeee! That band is the shit.

Mangled · Post by **Mangled** » Thu August 25th, 2011, 8:28 pm

stewvee wrote:Fuck man. Bring back fucking S O Deeeeee! That band is the shit.

SlashAndThrash · Post by **SlashAndThrash** » Thu August 25th, 2011, 10:04 pm

Anthrax ruled. I still love them, its just sad how it seems especially thrash musicians become the most out of touch over the years

V-GER · Post by **V-GER** » Thu August 25th, 2011, 10:08 pm

stewvee wrote:Fuck man. Bring back fucking S O Deeeeee! That band is the shit.

badcarburetor · Post by **badcarburetor** » Thu August 25th, 2011, 10:23 pm

Anthrax bums me out more than just about any band. Up through Persistance of time they were unfuckwithable for me. Now everytime I turn around they've done some new stupid shit. I can't even imagine what that song sounds like. Ugh.

Here's more Anthrax highjinks. Don't these guys ever get sick of back tracking and revising history?

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbe ... mID=162329

ANTHRAX Drummer: SCOTT IAN Had To 'Eat His Words' After Comparing JOEY BELLADONNA To A Bird - Aug. 23, 2011

Radio Metal recently conducted an interview with ANTHRAX drummer
Charlie Benante. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

Radio Metal: In the past few years, [ANTHRAX's] relationship with singers looked like a soap opera to the eyes of fans. Are singers in general always so hard to manage?

Charlie Benante: (laughs) Okay, wellÃ¢â‚¬Â¦ if you look at a lot of bands, I think you will see that there's always a singer problem. There's a term that lots of people use, and that's the "lead singer disease [LSD]." Singers, for some reason, have this thing about them that's like, "Oh, I'm the singer." I think they immediately believe that they deserve more than anyone, and maybe they feel like they have the hardest job in the band, but usually all they need to do is turn around and look at the guy in the back! That guy has the hardest job, the drummer! (chuckles)

Radio Metal: John Bush was quite popular among the fans and many of those still think that it was a mistake to let him go for a reunion tour back in 2005. Is this a feeling you have shared at some point, or not at all?

Charlie Benante: The hardest thing about this is choosing this guy over that guy or whatever, and for me speaking right now, the classic ANTHRAX lineup is, of course, from the mid-Eighties that created the records "Spreading The Disease" and "Among The Living". So it's almost obvious that's what people would want to see now. I mean, we've seen it. We've seen the difference between playing with Joey [Belladonna] and playing with John. There are way more people coming, and there's more excitement. So I'm not taking anything away from John at all, I'm just basically stating a fact.

Radio Metal: But just before Joey came back into the band, you at the time stated that the band was in the process of regrouping with John. So why didn't things work out in the end?

Charlie Benante: John just came back to fulfill some commitments that we had, and do some shows, and that was the end of it. He was not going to stay or anything like that. And I think around that time, everyone was scratching their heads and needed to get away from ANTHRAX. I think that's why some of them went and did some other projects. But I just think that we hit a wall at that time, and we knew John wasn't going to be a part of the band anymore, and we needed to move on.

Radio Metal: At the end of the reunion tour in 2005, Joey refused to go any further and do an album. So what's changed, according to you, in his mind for him to accept the second time that you asked?

Charlie Benante: At the time we were with a different organization that Joey did not really agree with. He did not like these people that were involved in the band at the time. And that was basically one of the basic reasons why he did not continue, because of the organization. I don't blame him anyway for not doing it, because we didn't want to stay with these people either. I think the reunion tour was done for the wrong reasons, and I think this was done now with the right intentions, and it was done in a very organic way and it wasn't forced upon us. It was done in a very "handshake," "hey, man, come on, let's try and work this together," and that's the way we did it.

Radio Metal: There was a funny thing that Scott Ian said at one point on a television program [see video clip below]. I don't know if you've seen this, but he was asked about John Bush and Joey Belladonna, and he actually called John Bush a lion, and compared Joey to a bird. So I guess a bird is what ANTHRAX needed in the endÃ¢â‚¬Â¦

Charlie Benante: Well, I think Scott had to eat some of the words he said about that. But he only said that because I think he left things off with Joey kind of bad, and their relationship wasn't very well back then when he said that. And I think Scott just harbored some ill feelings towards Joey and I think that's kind of why he made that statement, you know?

Read the entire interview from Radio Metal.

SlashAndThrash · Post by **SlashAndThrash** » Fri August 26th, 2011, 12:02 am

there's so much bickering among anthrax even now with this reunion and interviews i've read regarding the new album that I have very, very little hope that this is going to last even in to the next year. I love anthrax but seriously, just fucking call it quits. they haven't put out a SINGLE THING worth a damn since Persistence and I don't think anything is changing now. Joey is Joey and kicks ass, Scott Ian is a raging faggot and a talentless sellout, and no one can seem to agree fully on anything. Pull the sheet up over the corpse of this band already. With every press release the corpse stinks more and more.

and as an aside, I fucking hate Scott Ian. Hack. And if you prefer "Bush" era Anthrax, than you didn't like Anthrax.

badcarburetor · Post by **badcarburetor** » Fri August 26th, 2011, 12:10 am

SlashAndThrash wrote:there's so much bickering among anthrax even now with this reunion and interviews i've read regarding the new album that I have very, very little hope that this is going to last even in to the next year. I love anthrax but seriously, just fucking call it quits. they haven't put out a SINGLE THING worth a damn since Persistence and I don't think anything is changing now. Joey is Joey and kicks ass, Scott Ian is a raging faggot and a talentless sellout, and no one can seem to agree fully on anything. Pull the sheet up over the corpse of this band already. With every press release the corpse stinks more and more.

and as an aside, I fucking hate Scott Ian. Hack.

You got all that right. Sucks, though. They were so good for so long and then...

SlashAndThrash · Post by **SlashAndThrash** » Fri August 26th, 2011, 12:17 am

It does suck, a lot. I love Anthrax. LOVE them. and Persistence of Time is my favorite album by them, followed by Spreading the Disease. but there's no way this new one is going to be worth a shit. Hell, even the opening riff of the single they dropped from it "fight 'em till you can't" is a direct ripoff note for note from Gridlock off persistence. there is no hope. no hope at all.

badcarburetor · Post by **badcarburetor** » Fri August 26th, 2011, 12:26 am

I really wanted to like that new track, but just can't do it. Sounds like they "toughened" up Joey's vox somehow. The result is limp and forced. Lame. That band was so good for so long. If I had been told when Persistence was released that they would so totally lose the plot so severally and quickly I would have lost seriously money betting against that.

SlashAndThrash · Post by **SlashAndThrash** » Fri August 26th, 2011, 12:32 am

I don't mind his vocals so much, he just sounds like he's using a little more gut and has aged a little bit IMO. the problem I have with this song is it sucks. ripoff of gridlock, sounds like a sub-par oldschool anthrax song mixed with some bullshit radio rock. In short, it sucks ass. At least no one can take the good tracks of old away from us!

stewvee · Post by **stewvee** » Fri August 26th, 2011, 7:59 am

Joey can belt it man. He's got a killer voice. Doesn't sound like its faltered at all and we can't say that about MegaDave or Hetfield or Tommy A (even though he did hit *the scream* at the beginning of "Angel of Death" last time they played here).

Scott Ian is a KILLER fucking guitarist. I watched that old SOD vid the other night, Live @ Budokan, and Holmes is ruling the world there. Too bad they won't reform so Billy Milano can talk shit about Ghost and Obama and Palin.

badcarburetor · Post by **badcarburetor** » Fri August 26th, 2011, 9:39 am

I was really impressed by Joey at Gwinnett Arena early this year or last year whenever that show was. Dude was totally fit and his voice was on point. Kinda funny as all the other big 4 dudes have had the money and pro careers and Joey's been here:

http://www.themetalinquisition.com/2009 ... rt_13.html

The best part of that article is the line, "Joey's hair can be fashioned into the only known weapon to have any impact on Chuck Norris."

Knucklehead · Post by **Knucklehead** » Fri August 26th, 2011, 9:39 am

Brian wrote:Is this a joke?

Listen to Track 14.

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