8/3/2019 Music Review Anthrax - Worship Music

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MUSIC REVIEW

By

TRISTAN SEESING, H4A

8/3/2019 Music Review Anthrax - Worship Music

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8 Years after Weve Come for You All (2003), New York thrash -metal giants Anthrax return with

their newest studio album Worship Music. This is also the first studio album to feature the classic

Anthrax vocalist Joey Belladona since 1990s Persistence Of Time. Ex-members Dan Nelson and

John Bush were also asked respectively to do the vocals, but both did not.

As stated in an interview, the new album sounds like classic Anthrax and it sure does. U.K. heavy

metal magazine Metal Hammer commented on the album as This is a riff-sh*tting, fire-breathing,

doubt-crushing monster of a record.

The record begins with an instrumental called Worship, which is an in-and-out fading of guitar with

the word worship repeated several times. There are two other instrumentals called Hymm 1 (track

6) and Hymm 2 (track 9). Hymm 1 being a short cello piece by Allison Chesley (not a member of

Anthrax) and Hymm 2 a march-like drum solo by Charlie Bennante.

Worship actually blasts into the second track Earth On Hell which is a fast and heavy song and also

the shortest on Worship Music. Starting with the line The kids have gone wild in the streets, this

songs is about the apocalypse turning Earth into a kind of Hell.The next two tracks The Devil You Know and Fight Em Till You Cant were both released as part of

the Fight Em Till You Cant digital single the 24th

of June 2011. Fight Em Till You Cant is about the

dead coming back to life and fighting until you cant fight anymore is the only way to stop them.

Halfway through the album we reach In The End. Scott Ian (guitarist) said that this was a tribute to

the late Dimebag Darrell (Abbott, ex-Pantera and ex-Damageplan guitarist) and Ronnie James

Dio (ex-Black Sabbath and ex-Rainbow vocalist). This song gradually builds up its speed throughout

the song. Judas Priest is also a tribute song, this one paying tribute to heavy metal gods Judas

Priest. This song is the longest on the album.

Crawl is also a slow song, but very heavy. Revolution Screams is together with Earth On Hell and

Fight Em Till You Cant one of the thrasiest songs on the album.

For the normal edition, the album stops after Revolution Screams but the deluxe digipak edition

includes a cover song; New Noise by Refused. It fits very well with the a lbum, bringing some new

noise back.

In overall, I think this album is a great one Some people might say that theyd like to hear John

Bush again but Joey Belladona gives that extra classic Anthrax feel and touch, which I like more

than the 90s and 00s albums.

I give it an 8 out of 10. Welcome back dudes!