After a significantly prolonged gestation course of, Anthrax frontman Joey Belladonna has formally wrapped up monitoring vocals for the legendary thrash band’s extremely anticipated twelfth studio album — their first full-length since 2016’s For All Kings.
The writing and recording course of for the brand new album started through the top of the COVID-19 pandemic, with longtime producer Jay Ruston (Stone Bitter, Avatar) as soon as once more behind the board. Regardless of the band’s preliminary momentum, progress was gradual. As just lately as August 2023, guitarist Scott Ian admitted to fighting finalizing lyrics, although Belladonna had already begun laying down vocal elements earlier than the yr’s finish.
Now, in a brand new interview with Insurgent Radio 92.5 FM, Belladonna confirmed that his work on the report is full: “You understand what? I completed the vocals. I am actually proud of what I’ve carried out. And the band sounds nice on the report. And so far as I do know proper now, we’re nonetheless ending up a couple of issues. We’re not even mixing but, so at this level I might be simply speculating [about a possible release date]. Clearly, issues are stepping into the precise type and the timing is correct. So, all good. I am joyful. You are gonna adore it.”
In a 2024 dialog with Guitar World, Ian revealed the band is eyeing an early 2025 launch for the long-awaited follow-up to For All Kings. He additionally shared perception into the report’s route: “There are crushing riffs and nice, hooky choruses. Even a few of the thrashiest songs have nice choruses. We’re at all times in search of the hook, and I feel we have achieved that.”
“With the songs we have written, we would be able to put collectively a nine- or 10-song report that might be thrashier than something we have carried out in a very long time. However there would even be a technique to make it a really totally different sort of album relying on which songs we select. And I can let you know, I do know which manner I am leaning… We wish this report to punch folks within the face.”
Drummer Charlie Benante additionally teased new sonic territory in an August 2024 interview with Metallic Hammer. He referenced a monitor harking back to the band’s extra epic compositions, like ‘Within the Finish’ and ‘Blood Eagle Wings’: “There is a tune which has the identical sort of epic really feel… It revolves across the journey we have been on within the band. And there are three songs that do not sound like something we have carried out earlier than.”
A type of outliers, titled “The Fringe of Perfection”, has a private historical past for Benante: “I had [it] manner earlier than COVID, and it has simply stayed with me — the melody and the chords, but additionally the aggression.”
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