Review: Karnivool With Intervals The Roundhouse – May 14th, 2026 Reviewer / Photographer – Phil Honley Intervals is a really heavy four piece prog instrumental metal outfit from Toronto. Aaron Marshall – guitars, Nathan Bulla – drums, percussion, Jacob Umansky – bass and Travis LeVrier – guitars. They are as tight a unit as I have seen […]
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Colin Blunstone represents that rare and sadly dying breed of consummate performer, with six decades of trial and tribulation in the music industry. A real trooper. As Colin recounted tonight his period of chart activity with The Zombies was short … Continue reading
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The “Big Four” icons have finally broken their ten-year silence. On May 15, 2026, Anthrax officially debuted their explosive new single, “It’s For The Kids,” the first glimpse into their twelfth studio album, Cursum Perficio.
Set for release on September 18, 2026, via Megaforce Records, the track is a relentless, guitar-driven “banger” that drummer Charlie Benante calls a “love letter” to the fans who have endured a decade-long wait for a new full-length record. Accompanied by a visceral music video directed by Don Argott, this launch marks the beginning of the most anticipated chapter in Anthrax’s 45-year history.
The title of the new record, Cursum Perficio, is steeped in Hollywood mystery and personal grit. The Latin phrase—notoriously engraved on a tile in the entryway of Marilyn Monroe’s final home—translates literally to “I will persevere” or “I accomplish my course.”
For Anthrax, the title is a testament to their longevity. This marks the longest gap between albums in the band’s career, following 2016’s For All Kings. Drummer Charlie Benante has been vocal about the high stakes for this release, telling the Everblack podcast that every song on the record “stands on its own” and that the band purposefully discarded older material to make room for new tracks that “destroy” their predecessors.
Cursum Perficio was produced by longtime collaborator Jay Ruston, who previously helmed the band’s critical successes Worship Music (2011) and For All Kings (2016). In a “Nuclear” reveal for fans, it was confirmed that significant portions of the recording and mixing sessions took place at Dave Grohl’s Studio 606 in Northridge, California.
The album features the band’s classic lineup—Joey Belladonna, Scott Ian, Frank Bello, and Charlie Benante—alongside lead guitarist Jonathan Donais. This marks the first time since 1990’s Persistence of Time that the band has recorded an album entirely as a five-piece with the same consistent lineup from their previous effort.
The official music video for “It’s For The Kids” was filmed last December under the direction of Don Argott (Last Days Here, Framing John DeLorean). Known for his gritty, documentary-style aesthetic, Argott’s direction matches the high-octane energy of the single, which fans have already begun dissecting as a sharp critique of political inaction regarding modern social crises.
When does the new Anthrax album come out? Cursum Perficio will be released on September 18, 2026, via Megaforce Records in North America and Nuclear Blast in Europe.
Why did Anthrax take 10 years to release a new album? The band cited extensive touring, the global pandemic, and a perfectionist writing process as the primary reasons for the delay. Charlie Benante revealed they “threw out a bunch of old tunes” mid-process to ensure the new material was superior.
Where can I pre-order the new Anthrax album? Pre-orders and pre-saves are live now via Megaforce Records and major retailers like Rough Trade, featuring limited edition “Transparent Magenta” vinyl and a deluxe 2LP/CD box set.
Formed in 1981, Anthrax is one of the “Big Four” of thrash metal alongside Metallica, Slayer, and Megadeth. With over 10 million albums sold and six Grammy nominations, the band is a pioneer of the genre, known for blending thrash speed with melodic hooks and a legendary New York attitude. Cursum Perficio is their first studio album in a decade.
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Anthrax has released their first new single in a decade, “It’s For The Kids,” ahead of their new album Cursum Perficio arriving September 18.
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Multi-GRAMMY® award-nominated New York heavy metal titans Anthrax – Scott Ian (guitar), Charlie Benante (drums), Frank Bello (bass), Joey Belladonna (vocals), and Jonathan Donais (guitar) – will unleash their long-awaited 12th full-length studio album Cursum Perficio on September 18th via Nuclear Blast Records and Megaforce Records (North America). It marks the band’s first record in ten years since 2016’s For All Kings, which debuted in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200. Cursum Perficio will be available in various physical configurations to pre-order/pre-save; click HERE. The phrase Cursum Perficio is Latin for “My journey has come to an end,” “My journey is over,” or “I complete my journey.” It proves apropos for such a complete body of work.
For Cursum Perficio’s first single and video, ‘It’s For The Kids’, the quintet bulldoze the way for the album’s impact. It’s a classic Anthrax ripper locked and loaded with buzzsaw-sharp riffs, explosive drumming, and a howling and head-banging hook. It undoubtedly has all the makings of a future live staple!
Check out the video here.
The band dove into recording Cursum Perficio in earnest during 2022, working out of Dave Grohl’s Studio 606 in Los Angeles. They carefully pieced together what would be this magnum opus, mining their history with reverence, delivering on fan expectations tenfold, and broadening the scope of their signature sound. Produced by Jay Ruston and Anthrax, the result is an album that’s as angry, aggressive, and alive as their most celebrated fare.
“It was quite a journey from the inception of this album to its completion,” Ian says. “We were supposed to make this in 2020, but the universe had other plans for everyone. After the Pandemic, we got to be a band again. When we started working on the record, we were just happy to be in a room together. It was so exciting that it was like being reborn in a way. All of that energy and emotion went into the music. The fear of being forced out of our lives and the joy of coming back together are present. The title ‘Cursum Perficio’ feels like ANTHRAX. It resembled what we went through to get to the point of finishing the record.”
“There was an awful lot of growth between Worship Music in 2011 and CURSUM PERFICIO,” Benante elaborated. “This album is a culmination of everything we’ve learned. I was watching a Marilyn Monroe documentary, and I saw ‘Cursum Perficio’ written on a tile in her last home. When I found out what the phrase meant, it immediately clicked with me. We aren’t saying this is our last record, but our journey has come to an end. I believe we’ve completed the task.”
“We had to make Fistful Of Metal and Spreading The Disease to be able to write Among The Living,” Ian goes on. “In the same respect, it took Worship Music and For All Kings for us to be able to write CURSUM PERFICIO. I very much compare this record to Among The Living.”
“We left it all on the table,” agreed Bello. “We really know who we are as ANTHRAX, what turns us on, and what we need to do. I don’t think anybody knows what’s next, but we’re hungrier than ever. From here on out, we’re going to go full throttle for every fucking minute.”
“A friend of mine said, ‘It’s For The Kids’ is a straight-up love letter to your fans,’” Ian says. “That’s exactly what I wanted it to be. The album needed a four-minute thrash song that harkened back to our first era. Whether it’s the aggression or the big chorus, it represents all the best parts of ANTHRAX in a very angry four-minute package. For the video, we wanted to throw back to our ‘Madhouse’ video–thematically it just made sense and this idea opened the door for us to share the experience with our fans. For all of us!”
“The video for ‘It’s For the Kids’ turned out really well,” Benante says. “I don’t necessarily like doing videos and this one had elements of things that I really love. There were fans in it, they showed up, they enjoyed it, it made me enjoy the video just seeing them enjoy it. Hearing the song for the first time, their reaction to it, and just the interaction with them was just great. I think the director did a great job on it. It’s kind of a throwback to our first ever video, ‘Madhouse.’ So I think fans are gonna see it and think ‘oh look at that, I see what they did.’ But yeah, great song and a great video. ‘It’s For the Kids’ is one of the songs that I felt was so strong, and the riff behind it and the rhythm behind it was almost like a tug of war, it’s like a push pull. It has this tension to it where the drums are just playing at a high pace speed, and the guitars are doing pretty much quarter notes with it. And the drums are just going full speed ahead. One of my favorite songs on the record and one of my favorite riffs. I really think this song is a gift to ANTHRAX fans who have been with us throughout the years. This basically is ANTHRAX at its best. Fast paced, thrashing, melodic fucking metal.”
“When I hear certain tracks, I immediately go, ‘I want to do this song. It might have a shot,” Belladonna notes. “Even the first time I started singing a tune like ‘Madhouse,’ I figured it was going to be a strong one. You just know. There’s a lot of variety to each of our records. To me, ‘It’s For The Kids’ is nice, straight-up ANTHRAX. It has a lot of fire and a punch to it. Vocally, it’s really cooking. It was definitely fun to hammer down on this one and put a lot of drive into it.”
Donais adds, “‘It’s For The Kids’ is a right to the point thrasher. It’s fast, aggressive, catchy and definitely going to be a fun one live. I love the ‘madhouse’ inspired throwback vibe of this video. Involving the fans and capturing their reactions to a new song adds some energy that really stands out.”
“I’m psyched for people to hear ‘It’s For The Kids!’” Bello comments. “This is a heavy, driving song with a big hook chorus-a combination of classic ANTHRAX and current- I can’t wait to play it live! Had a (cold!) blast filming the video too. It’s a great, energy packed video with a bunch of amazing ANTHRAX fans having a good time on a freezing day in Pennsylvania. The metal kept us all warm.”
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Blue Medusa, the new band from former Arch Enemy vocalist Alissa White-Gluz, have shared their second single.
After the huge success of the trio’s savage debut single ‘Checkmate’, they’re back with another face-melter.
This one is titled ‘Flying Monkey’, and it’s a wickedly dark cut that finds Alissa and co. at their most vulnerable and vicious.
With a title that nods to the story of The Wizard Of Oz, it makes sense that there’s a cinematic flair to this one. Frantic and delightfully fun, there’s plenty of hidden references and double entendres to dig into here, and they’re all wrapped in the kind of riffs and harmonies that’ll get your heart properly racing.
The instrumentation of ‘Flying Monkey’ was composed by guitarist Dani Sophia, who states:
“Flying Monkey was written in this really liminal space, this waiting area in-between chapters in my life, and the melodies reflect the themes of the nightmares I was having at the time. No matter where I was, I kept hearing an out-of-tune music box playing in the distance…”
Alissa also had this to say about the track’s creation:
“Flying Monkey is exactly the kind of music I want to be making. I am so inspired by Dani and Alyssa. This Blue Medua album is almost like writing my memoirs and I have loved every aspect of creating it.”
The official music video for the track is also set to arrive later today (May 15).
Check it out from 4pm GMT below.
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Kevin Morby just released his masterpiece. Little Wide Open, out today, is the folk-rock singer-songwriter’s greatest collection of songs to date. The album presents an interconnected batch of reflections: on Morby’s Midwestern homeland and the adventures that have carried him far from it, on isolation and connection, on reckless youth and hard-won maturity, on how to navigate this life and what makes it worth living.
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Falling Together, the new album from US-based progressive rock group Advent Horizon is out today.
The album marks the follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2023 release A Cell to Call Home. Falling Together is an album about holding your beliefs under a microscope, and determining whether they are truly yours, or whether they were planted there by others when you were young and impressionable.
Falling Together is available to order now here:
https://www.adventhorizonmusic.com/merch-region-selection
The band is now releasing the second single from the album.
To celebrate the album’s release, the band have shared a performance video for the album’s opening track, the 19-minute epic “In A Lone And Dreary World.”
Vocalist/Guitarist/Songwriter Rylee McDonald on the track: “‘I’ve always been a big fan of prog epics (Close to the edge, Hemispheres, 2112, Anesthetize, Crystalized etc), and have long dreamed of crafting an epic of my own. Years ago, Mike and I decided to write an epic track telling the story of someone raised in a sheltered community who builds up the courage to leave the safety of their home and explore the “dangerous and evil” world outside, only to discover that the world is actually a place of beauty and wonder. I wrote/recorded the first draft of this song back in 2018-2019 during the ACTCH writing sessions. It was immediately apparent that this concept was too big to fit neatly within ACTCH, so we set it aside, knowing that it would become the centerpiece of our followup album to ACTCH. Over the coming years, it blossomed into the single biggest piece of music I’ve ever composed. I’m immensely proud of how “In a lone and dreary world” turned out. It’s the longest, heaviest, most dynamic thing we’ve done to date, and I truly cannot wait to see people’s reaction to it.”
“Falling Together” is available on CD and vinyl here
https://www.adventhorizonmusic.com/merch-region-selection
and digital here:
https://adventhorizon.bandcamp.com/
You can hear the singles on streaming services now.
One additional song will be made available each month.
1. In A Lone And Dreary World (19:03)
2. Faiths Window (5:20)
3. Patience (4:53)
4. Past Life Parable (5:03)
5. Gravity I (2:35)
6. Gravity II (4:49)
7. Animals (5:34)
ADVENT HORIZON is:
Rylee McDonald – Vocals, Guitars, Keys
Mike Lofgreen – Drums and Percussion
Cason Wood – Bass, Keys, Trombone
Grant Matheson – Guitar, Keys, Vocals
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