Anthrax has always been vaguely relevant at best – selling not quite enough albums to be huge, but never really going away and always drawing some amount of media attention. Perhaps it’s lower expectations, but they seem to have aged more gracefully than most of their famous speed metal counterparts in recent years. 2011’s Worship Music must’ve paid the bills for a while, since the delay between that and the upcoming For All Kings is quite lengthy (albeit not as lengthy as the wait between WM and its own predecessor). So far, Anthrax has released the track “Evil Twin” as a single, which makes for an accurate if unnecessary imitation of the band’s past work. Anthrax has also promised that For All Kings will be “heavier” than its predecessor, perhaps due to the presence of Jon Donais from the metalcore band Shadows Fall. I wouldn’t stake any important bets on it, though.
Tags: 2016, anthrax, for all kings, mainstream metal, party metal, Speed Metal
Mediocrity aside, it’s good to see them still around and active. They’re iconic and have been with the genre since it’s near earliest days.
exactlie, nnot many metalheads from nowadaze scene would even dream of having that sort of lead in their pencils by that stage. the respekt that I got for thsess boyz is off the ficking radar go figur. horns \m/\m/
I like the first 3 anthrax albums with fistful of metal being their finest effort. Their music dropped drastically in quality after among the living. Saw them with motorhead recently and they can still play their old classics pretty well live.