New Anthrax album inSeptember?

Mon 2nd May, 2011 in International News

Anthrax haven’t released an album since 2003’s We’ve Come for You All but drummer Charlie Benante has told SoundSpike that the band’s new album is “finally at the end stages.

Describing the record as the “most emotional” music they’ve ever made, Benante explained that “This record is like a labour of love in all the different ways that it took to get here. A lot of blood, a lot of sweat, a lot of tears. It’s very emotional to get to this point. Nothing’s fabricated here. It’s all based on truth.”

Joey Belladonna has returned for his third stint leading the band on vocals (1984–1992, 2005–2007, 2010–present) and has rerecorded the songs which had originally featured former lead singer Dan Nelson. Benante says that “Joey sounds awesome and that’s the truth. When he sang on the first song, it sounded like Anthrax again. I finally knew this is the way it should sound.”

The band’s guitarist Scott Ian recently uploaded a brief video from the studio under the title “More New Anthrax” to give fans a taste of the first new album for the band in eight years.

The album is tentatively scheduled for release in September; the same month that the band will play a huge show at Yankees Stadium with Megadeth, Slayer and Metallica and the same month as the Soundwave Revolution tour in Australia.

Sadly there’s no chance of big four of thrash metal headlining Soundwave Revolution (Metallica will be in Brazil for Rock in Rio and Slayer played on the Soundwave tour in March) but Anthrax guitarists Scott Ian and Rob Caggiano already playing on the Revolution tour with The Damned Things so there’s a strong chance that the rest of the band may join them on the Revolution tour. After all, Ian and Caggiano wouldn’t be the only members of The Damned Things performing double duties on the tour – as Keith Buckley and Josh Newton will also be leading metalcore band Every Time I Die.