Get The Sound of White Noise and listen to Invisible and the rest and you'll be pleasantly surprised I guarantee.

i heard a song from SOWN, i dont like Bush, Belladonna era stuff is cooler, what does Neil Turbin sound like?

Turnbin was a screamer. Check out Metal Thrashing Mad. His best performance.
Plus I can't understand how anyone can not like John Bush as a singer. Even people who don't listen to metal. He's my favorite singer ever, and if I was a gay I'd bum him.

The first one of Scott Ian's signature guitars is up for bids on Ebay. Serial # 1!! I can't play the guitar but I'd love to own that son of a bitch! Too bad it costs so much. Whoever gets it is I'm afraid to say a bigger Anthrax fan than me.
I didn't notice the first time I saw it but the cammo is made of loads of Scott Ian shadows.

Scott "Not" Ian Guitar of Doom

dude, my friend was at Media PLay checkin out some cds, and he went over to the clearance section, RETURN OF THE KILLER A'S FOR 99cents!!!! holy fuck he bought two copies one for me one for him, killer CD for such a price, hell i woulda paid $12 for this cd

That album would have been better without those 2 stupid remixes.

still man 99CENTS!!! how much would that be in England

Anthrax fucking rules!

Words can't express how much I love Anthrax! Persistence Of Time is in my top 3 fav albums of all time!!! Personally, I prefer the Belladonna era myself. Time is my fav song by them. That song CRUSHES!!!!

Yeah, Persistence of Time is an awesome album. Time rules, especially the beginning part when it's building up!!! DUN DUN DUN DUN!!!!!!!
My fav album is Sound of White Noise and Volume 8 comes a close second. Stomp 442 is probably their heaviest.
My favs with Belladonna are Spreading The Disease and Persistence of Time.
I still prefare Bush though. His voice is awesome.

hey Gaz, are they touring by where you live anytime soon with their old lineup?

No the cunts! They did Glasgow and Dublin and fucked England off which sucks really because the last 2 tours they did in England, almost every show sold out. Cunts! They are playing in London soon though for an awards night or something for 20 minutes. I'm not going all the way to London to see 20 minutes of Anthrax. Plus there are only 200 tickets so even if I did go, there is no chance that I'd get in. Fuck London anyway, it's the worst place on Earth.

My favorite Anthrax album is The Sound of White Noise.

Now Playing: Aborted

Jeah!!! That was the first metal album I ever bought.

I prefer John Bush's vocals over Joey Belladonna. What about Neil Turbin? I don't have much an opinion on him since I never really listened to Fistful of Metal. All I know is John Bush's vocals are the best. Belladonna does have his moments though, like on Spreading the Disease, Among the Living, and Persistence of Time.

what else can i say........IM SO BAD I SHOULD BE IN DETENTION...IM THE MAN!!!

That intro is AWESOME! I remember seeing them with Public Enemy back in '91 and they opened with the intro of Time right into N.F.L.!!! I hope they play the full version when I see 'em on the reunion tour!!

damn dude that sucks hard, i think they are comin here later this summer, im definitely goin

Fuck yes! That song rocks!

Now Playing: Anthrax - I'm the Man (Def Uncensored Radio Version)

I'm The Man is great! My fav song on that ep is the cover of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath! I love Scott and Danny's guitar tone on that song!!

"Well I'm startin' up a posse
To come and look for you
We're gonna put a stop to what you want to do
You fuckin' whore"

That song is cool. The songs that Scott sings are funny.

Cupajoe, Snap I'd Rather Be Sleeping, Starting Up A Posse, Dethroned Emperor...

i am the law..........im the man.........NFB (hillarious)......prob my 3 favs


and defiantly bring the noise......... i dont like any new anthrax....pretty much anything i do like is from bring the noise or earlier....


edit---- cant forget keep it in the family

That's my thoughts exactly! Killer B's was the last album I really liked by Anthrax as well! It's such a FUN album! I really like Sects, Pipeline, Protest and Survive, Bring The Noize, and Milk! Fuck it, the whole album is great!!! My top 3 'Thrax tunes always changes except for #1:

1. Time
2. Be All, End All
3. In My World

I was always hoping Anthrax would make a thrash album with John Bush, but I guess it wasn't in the cards? Oh well.

i really need a cup o' coffe, go get me a cupajoe, i really need a cup o' coffe, go get me a cupajoe, i really need a cup o' coffe, go get me a cupajoe, i really need a cup o' coffe, go get me a cupajoe, cupajoe cupajoe cupajoe cupajoe BlACK AND STROOOOOOOOONG!!! BLACK AND STROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNGG!!!!!!!!

Cupajoe rules!!! Stomp 442 is my least fav Anthrax album though.

yup the killer b's and be4.......thats sum good anthrax.........lol.....


"she got hit by a truck"..........................joey,get me sum tissue

ah thats ok, excpet Cupajoe is on Volume 8 the THreat is Real

Oops, you're right! I've got Stomp and Vol 8, but I never listen to them, and always mix up the songs. That proves it! I don't mind SOWN though, but like I said the last album I loved was Killer B's, so I know the Joey era well, but don't really pay attention to Bush era Anthrax.

Anthrax was on the telly the other day over here which is odd. So was Megadeth and Slayer, Motorhead and some others. Doesn't usually happen on our screens but anyway...
It showed Anthrax playing Antisocial live in Donington and although it wasn't the best live recording in the world, Joey's voice had moved up a level. It was really good.

It still would have been better if it was John Bush though. How anyone can not like his voice is beyond me.

Personally I like his voice. I just don't like most of the music Anthrax made with him as the singer.

There was a time, several years ago, when I absolutely adored Anthrax, and placed them among my favourite elite thrash bands. Today, I'm no longer the huge fan I used to be, but yea, I still listen and enjoy a handful of their albums.

The one thing about Anthrax that really saddens me is that inspite of playing some of the most thrilling, fun, and memorable thrash for a lot of their long career, they never got the vocalist they deserved. I mean, I really find both the JBs, Joey Belladonna, and John Bush, to be second-rate singers that never added much value to the band. Anthrax absolutely deserved AND should have landed a vocalist of greater quality to front the band. Joey was a lousy frontman, especially live, and his vocal form was mostly so inconsistent, rarely hitting the heights, and desperately lacking in any real intensity, attitude, or menace. He just seemed to unable and/or unwilling to stretch himself vocally, instead preferring to ride along on the terrific, thrashing madness that his band-mates were unleashing. However, I still prefer Belladonna to Bush, cos whatever others say about, real or imaginary "skills", "technique", "range" and so on and on, Bush's voice and style badly grates on my nerves worse than some of the worst hardcore screechers do. Bush sounded moderately good and tolerable on the first two Anthrax records he sang on; 'Sound of White Noise' and 'Stomp 442'..but I had a terrible time tolerating him on the later releases, and I can hardly forgive him (like I can't forgive Corpsegrinder for ruining Chris's classics) for absolutely shipwrecking Joey-era Anthrax classics on the 'The Greater of Two Evils' compilation. Scott Ian's ridiculous and dishonest comments regarding that issue made me cringe with disgust.

But ok, there's no doubting that I vastly prefer the Belladonna-era Anthrax, mainly for the brand of music the band played before Joey exited and John came on board. My favourite Anthrax records remain 'Spreading the Disease' , 'Among the Living', the one-off debut with Neil Turbin on vocals, 'Fistful of Metal', a guy who was, in my opinion, a lot better suited to the band than either Joey or John. From Bush-era, my favourite is probably the sadly under-rated, poorly marketed, overlooked but superb 'Stomp 442' and Sound of White Noise had its great and lame moments, but a solid, fun album, no question. I have very negative feelings about Vol 8: The Threat is Real, an incredibly cartoonish, generic hard-rockish clap-trap, and the last studio album 'We've Come For You All', another disastrous dud that should have been enough to make me head for the exit door as a long-time Anthrax fan. Of course I didn't, but the band has really screwed up majorly with the reunion gossip, alleged backstabbing among bandmates, the meaningless, seemingly cash-grab tours, hopeless lack of new material, and the shocking disregard of the fans ought to be enough for anybody, (myself included) to NOW head for the door, if Anthrax, can't deliver what we want from them.

same.....after a while i just got kinda......b0red

Corpsegrinder kicks the shit out of Barnes. And even if you prefare Barnes you can't deny that Corpsegrinder does an awesome job at performing those old songs. And also John Bush kicks the shit out of Belladonna. He's a miles better singer. My favorite singer too.

you sir , have horrble taste in vocalists -


and well , anthrax had three good albums at best - meh meh meh

among , state , and spreading ........ the rest is just average .


Persistance of time wasnt bad ............ Ok , four albums

Anthrax rules. I had Medusa off STD stuck in my head today.

MEDUSAAAAAAAAA!!!! SHE'S STARING AT YOU, MEDUSAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!! WITH HER EYES!!!!!!!!! MEDUSAAAA!!!!!!!

what else is she gonna be staring at you with ........her feet ?

Uhh, it's from the song, dummy!

it is!!!!!!!!


i would never had guessed

Lemme respond piece by piece (ha, can't get away from Slayer, even on an Anthrax thread )

Your wildest fantasies aside, Corpsegrinder never did any such thing of Chris Barnes, certainly not physically and NEVER vocally.

You bet, I absolutely prefer Barnes...that much at least is pretty infamously known around here already.

I outright REJECT (where's the chance of my denying?? ) the baloney notion of George doing an awesome job at performing those old songs. I reckon George does himself and the band no favours at all by his infuriatingly inept, insipid antics on Chris's eternal classics of his original era with CC. Corpsegrinder's clumsy hatchet job on Chris's songs might float your boat, but it always sinks mine.

Ditto...Bush does nothing similar of Belladonna. As I stated earlier, I regard both JBs second-rate vocalists unsuited to Anthrax's thrash, so my feelings here are not exactly the same as with Chris and George. I like both CC vocalists,(and I probably don't need to tell ya that I don't even place Anthrax in CC's league) but Chris has always been multiple streets ahead of George, in my eyes. With Anthrax, Joey was about as menacing and exciting as a jar of smelling salts. And I often think John should have gone auditioning for some '90s alt-rock act or even Nirvana instead of hoarsely howling his way through a few awful Anthrax records. And hell yeah, I stand by my opinion that Bush totallly ran down the gutter on Belladonna's classic cuts with Anthrax at the peak of their powers.

easy there tiger

Heck, how could I forget about State of Euphoria. Although, State..got mostly very poor reviews and tepid fan reception, I really like that record. It isn't spectacular or anything, but I just enjoy it right through. But Persistence of Time, Joey's final studio effort with the band, is just the opposite for me. That album got strong reviews and fan love, but it really is a flat tyre on a highway, for me, frustratingly boring and annoying. Persistence is the only Belladonna-era Anthrax album I neither like nor ever listen to anymore.

Has any of you guys checked out 'Return of the Killer Bs'?? ..what the band cheekily called the longest-ever EP . Very good release indeed!!!

A. this is not the place for George/Chris debate, not to mention this misplaced notion that Barnes is even worth a shit.

B. How can anyone on this planet prefer those wanna be operatic crap vocals of Joey Bellasuckass over John Bush? Bush: convincing vocalist. Belladonna: dude sounds like a lady. Fuck Joey.

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A. this is not the place for George/Chris debate, not to mention this misplaced notion that Barnes is even worth a shit.

now now , just make your point without the barnes insults tiger .

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B. Fuck Joey.

- again not the place to advertise that sort of thing

C. I'm fully aware of that, sheriff .but you also gotta rein in (as if you would )some of the Corpsegrinder cowboys around here from shooting their mouths off and running amok everytime they read the slightest criticism of their last action hero. My barbed comments re: George on Chris's songs, were provoked by the previous hysterically silly comments in response to my first post. I simply couldn't let that go unanswered, once the first shots had been fired. Everthing else I said here so far have all been about ANTHRAX!! How can you chant the law and enforce the peace, when you couldn't resist that backhanded parting stab, youself, mister

D. Bush: "convincing vocalist"?? .....yea, like I said, he sure convinced me that he oughta have sought out an ideal spot in some alt-rock radio act, or confine his aggravating vocals to the band that deserved it: Armored Saint . Anthrax always deserved better, but again, like I pointed out before, they never got it from either of the JBs.

That kind of shit talking about current band members is not allowed here. You've been nicely warned more than once. Now knock it off. It's fine if you prefer Chris over George but calling George inept and using words like clumsy hatchet job are far beyond what is acceptable.

Learn how to quote, dork.

Don't like it? There is a door out of this place just like there's one to get in. And that whole patronizing "sheriff" comment isn't going to warm anything up either.

As for Barnes insults....FORMER member, not current. And to be sure, it's not that I don't like Barnes vocals on the CC material....I just don't like Barnes himself. Oh fuckin well.



BACK ON TOPIC:

I prefer Bush to Joey, flat out. I don't get at all where you're coming from with the whole "alt-rock" angle, but whatever. A lot of the Joey era material is great musically....I came up with "Antisocial" and the like, but his vocals just SUCK. Metal should never sound like an opera. EVER. Which a lot of the traditional old schoolers thought it should sound like....I don't like it, don't get it, and don't understand how it's "powerful" to sing like a puss. That's all.

Cool thanks Joey. At least two of us don't have shit in our ears distorting the sound of good vocalists.

Good on ya if that's how you feel. How I wish I too liked and strongly preferred one over the other. Alas, I despise them both. Yet my love for Anthrax is mainly confined to the Belladonna years, cos the actual music the band played during that era massively outclasses anything that came our way with Bush's debut onwards. Anthrax were a superb shot, initially, constantly firing from the hip, blazing away, and being terrific entertainers at the same time. They were all this, IN SPITE of such a woeful and wussy singer as Joey Belladonna among them. While Joey had all the intensity of cold salami, John Bush frayed my nerves even more, with his maddeningly raspy, hoarse howling. He seemed to try too damn hard to impress, maybe cos he just didn't have the authentic vocal chops to deliver. So yea, despite my lack of love or much respect for Belladonna's vocals, Bush sinks to even lowlier depths, in my eyes.

I feel that you sort of over-state Joey's sort of quasi-operatic swishes in his singing style. He sounded mostly sort of dead-flat, almost unvarying, one-toner type of singer. Sure, he had his stock of vocal theatrics, some of it were decent, mostly cartoonish. But c'mon, I think you exaggerate the operatic antics of Joey. Though, I'm absolutely on the same page with you about how no genuine Metal music should dabble with operatic (and epic, ultra-melodic) showboating. I too can't tolerate that sort of stuff one bit, (like I can't ever stand keyboards and keyboardists wherever I see and hear them).

Hey, if Joey's hints of 'opera' in Anthrax makes you cringe in disgust, just pause to think what a guy like Bruce Dickinson and his ilk (Iron Maiden and its near-clones) does to a guy like me. If Joey is a 'puss', then Bruce must be the queen of divas, eh?...

Re: Gaz Metal
Maybe the two of you do have tons of shit in your pairs of ears, to actually crave 'more of the same' a la Bush.

BINGO!

Shut up you little knob head.

Alright now this is not the Bloodlands quit calling names.

It's all good....we've always known that WE know what's up.

psssssssssssssssssst - they also like banana rama - big time