Thrash metal titans Anthrax have a new record coming out later this year. It’s been 10 years since the release of their previous record For All Kings, so people are curious what this new offering will be like. During a recent interview with Hot Metal, drummer Charlie Benante shed a little light.
“There’s elements of the [album] that are very abrasive. There’s elements of the record that … wow, we haven’t gone in this area. And a lot of it, it’s a more grown-up kind of sound. I don’t mean that in a way where it sounds like a Little River Band or anything but it’s just we’re more mature now, and I think the writing shows it. It’s so good. And I’m not gonna say ‘it sounds like this’, ‘it sounds like that’. It’s just a collection of songs where each one stands up right next to the other one.
“There will be three songs that come out before the record comes out. So you will get samples of what this record is before it comes out.”
Originally there was talk that the album would be out around May, but that’s actually not happening. We learned earlier this month that the new record will finally see the light of day in or about September.
According to Benante, the choice to move things back wasn’t the result of any issue in the writing or production side of things, but rather a managerial issue as the band recently changed things up with their team.
“It’s been pushed back because we recently changed the team, management and stuff like that. We wanted the new people coming in, the new team coming in, [to] really know what’s going on, just kinda of have more of a strategic plan.”
Honestly, it’s been a long time coming since we all had some new Anthrax. It’s been far too long if you ask me. Just a handful of months remain, so now all that’s left to do is wait a little while longer.
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